[Seaside] [Q] Running headless (squeak, not me)

[Brian Brown]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 11:46 am, Avi Bryant wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Brian Brown wrote:
> > Also, is it okay to 'kill' a headless image and expect it to be okay when
> > you restart it? (not -9, but a normal kill signal).
>
> Even kill -9 should be fine.  The image file isn't modified unless you
> explicitly send a #snapshot:andQuit: message to Smalltalk, and most code
> doesn't do this.  Just like if you kill -9 a C program you don't expect
> the executable to be corrupted.
>
Ok, good.

> It's slightly more likely that you would screw up the .changes file, and I
> have managed to do this on occasion, but that's less of a tragedy.
>
> Just a thought on your earlier lock up - was the .changes file present, or
> just an image?  Depending on how the prefs are set, it will stop during
> startup and warn you that the changes file is missing, which does mean
> that it never gets around to starting the server.
>

Yeah, the changes file was there... I had read about that setting in playing 
the ComSwiki dist...



> Avi
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