[Seaside] Fast Production Pier

[Brad Fuller]

Lukas Renggli wrote:
>>> 2. The setup on my own gentoo linux looks slightly more complicated.
>>> First of all I use daemon-tools <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html> to
>>> make sure the image runs all the time. The startup-script looks like:
>>>
>>>       #!/bin/sh
>>>       exec \
>>>               nice \
>>>               setuidgid apache \
>>>               squeak -vm-sound-null -vm-display-null pier.image
>>>
>>>       
>> Lukas & All,
>>
>> where do you usually place your squeak image in the directory tree? Is
>> it under /var/www/ ?
>>
>> And, who is running your bash script above? /etc/rc.local?
>>     
>
> I am using the daemon-tools, a powerful replacement to rc.local,
> inittab, init.d, and friends. It is like a super-daemon that controls
> a set of daemons and ensures that they run all the time.
>
> So for the setup I followed the directory structure suggested as by
> the daemon-tools:
>
> /service -- all daemon-tools daemons should be in here
> /service/app  -- my application directory
> /service/app/pier.image -- the image of question (could be also put
> anywhere else)
> /service/app/run -- the run-script as shown above
>
> That's it, all the rest happens automatically: your image will be
> immediately started after creating the run-script, it will be executed
> upon system-startup, and if your image crashes it will be immediately
> re-started, etc.
>
> I like that setup, because it is much easier than to fiddle around
> with init-scripts, broken pid-files, images that have been started
> 1000 times, ...
>   
sounds great. But, I can't get it to work.