How to shut down a headless vm properly?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Thu Mar 7 21:27:52 UTC 2002


On Thursday 07 March 2002 01:11 pm, Markus Fritsche wrote:
> Has anyone an idea how I can shutdown a headless running vm properly?
> I want to run my (web)server under squeak/linux. But therefore, I need the
> possibility to signal squeak to shut down (and, even better, let squeak
> signalling
> a proper shutdown with image saved).
>
> Where should I look for (r)tfm?

Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: true.

will quit. Perhaps you could set up a URL that will shutdown the image (and 
use authentication for it, of course).

Or you could listen on a local (Unix domain) socket for a message in a 
background (Squeak) process.

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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
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