Re: Headless on Mac OS X

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Aaron Rosenzweig <aaron(a)cocoanutstech.com>wrote;wrote: I am sorry I don't know how Mac works, but I can tell you what I do in Linux (with other's help in a seaside thread) startMyApp.sh: #!/bin/sh #settings NOHUP="/usr/bin/nohup" VM="/home/mariano/squeak/expury/build/squeak" # Para produccion, como no van a estar las X, tengo que poner el -vm-display-null VM_PARAMS="-mmap 200m -vm-sound-null" IMAGE="destinoMochila.image" #start the vm $NOHUP "$VM" $VM_PARAMS "$IMAGE" & # store in a file the PID of squeakVM echo $! > evince.pid stopMyApp.sh: #!/bin/bash PID=`cat evince.pid` kill -15 $PID || exit 0 sleep 2 kill -2 $PID || exit 0 sleep 2 kill -1 $PID || exit 0 sleep 2 kill -9 $PID || exit 0 This has three nice things: 1) Doesn't do a kill -9 first but it tries to kill the process with better signals 2) I store the pid in a file so that then I know which process to kill 3) I use nohup so that I can start the process and then close the terminal (suppose you are trough ssh). I hope this helps, Mariano