Valentina Server Tip for Wiki

[Mr. Bart Pietercil]

Hi List, Ruslan


Under OSX Valentina Server installer creates a startupitem. I would  
recommend this being changed and to place VServer under control of  
LaunchD, certainly when moving to a production environment.
Ruslan has said he will have a look at it when he finds the time.

This change by itself is not difficult (when doing it manually) at all  
and is properly described and documented at Charles Yeomans site (at  
least for OSX 10.4 and I am not sure if these same instructions work  
under Leopard). (<http://www.declaresub.com/article/28/managing-valentina-server-with-launchd 
 >)
As one can read this involves a bit off Terminal play and some people  
may prefer a more graphical way.

So did we (easier and faster (2 clicks) when running Apple Remote  
Desktop) so we choose Lingon (http://lingon.sourceforge.net/)

Lingon makes it VERY easy to create the necessary .plist file and  
places it in the correct directory. (watch out to use the appropriate  
version for Tiger or Leopard) and at the same time provides a  
graphical interface to load, unload and reload LaunchD processes. You  
can find Lingon here (<http://lingon.sourceforge.net/>). It is  
donation ware.

We have been using VServer the last two weeks under heavy load, we had  
some (not many, but some) crashes but the great thing was that the  
Valentina service was back up within a second without needing  
intervention as it was controlled by LaunchD.

Hope this will help people out.

Bart
PS: Ruslan maybe this can be put on the WIKI on the VServer tips for  
OSX ?