Hello, after some fiddling I managed to run SmallWiki 1 in headless mode with VisualWorks. I added a number of actions (in an extension, of course) to save an image, quit it, save-and-quit it so that I can launch SmallWiki as a daemon when the machine boots, and with the intention to save it when the machine goes down (need to test this further since I do not know whether OS-X will actually wait until my script is finished before killing the headless-VW process, but ok). I added the necessary Mac OS-X config files to do this (configurable and all). Are other people in need of this? Is there a good place to put these things? CincomStore maybe? With a description on some SmallWiki page? Maybe other people can chime in and put their configurations/scripts/batch files for other OS-s and Smalltalk versions (or, ahum, maybe it already exists and I overlooked it)? -- Roel Wuyts DeComp roel.wuyts(a)ulb.ac.be Université Libre de Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~rowuyts/ Belgique Vice-President of the European Smalltalk Users Group: www.esug.org

Hi Roel! I tried a similar approach 1 (or 2?) year(s) ago. I bumped into some problem that I couldn't load an headless image that was previously saved. Apparently this bug went off... Alexandre On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:11:59PM +0100, Roel Wuyts wrote: > Hello, > after some fiddling I managed to run SmallWiki 1 in headless mode with > VisualWorks. I added a number of actions (in an extension, of course) > to save an image, quit it, save-and-quit it so that I can launch > SmallWiki as a daemon when the machine boots, and with the intention > to > save it when the machine goes down (need to test this further since I > do not know whether OS-X will actually wait until my script is > finished > before killing the headless-VW process, but ok). I added the necessary > Mac OS-X config files to do this (configurable and all). > > Are other people in need of this? Is there a good place to put these > things? CincomStore maybe? With a description on some SmallWiki page? > Maybe other people can chime in and put their > configurations/scripts/batch files for other OS-s and Smalltalk > versions (or, ahum, maybe it already exists and I overlooked it)? > > > -- > Roel Wuyts > DeComp > roel.wuyts(a)ulb.ac.be Université Libre de > Bruxelles > http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~rowuyts/ > Belgique > Vice-President of the European Smalltalk Users Group: www.esug.org -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~bergel ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

Wow... If I had this ideas a couple of year before, it would have saved me a lot of time... Alexandre On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:55:57AM +0100, Roel Wuyts wrote: > Don't know whether it fell of or not. I had the same (or similar) > problem you describe (restoring a saved image either did not work). > After a lot of fiddling (I could not reproduce the bug in headfull > mode > so debugging was ... interesting ...) I found out that I simply had to > fork a separate process to do the saving, since triggering it in the > action did not work (I did not figure out why exactly). Once forked > (with a semaphor to delay the action), everything works fine. > > On 15 Mar 2005, at 18:02, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > >> Hi Roel! >> >> I tried a similar approach 1 (or 2?) year(s) ago. I bumped into some >> problem that I couldn't load an headless image that was previously >> saved. >> >> Apparently this bug went off... >> >> Alexandre >> >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:11:59PM +0100, Roel Wuyts wrote: >>> Hello, >>> after some fiddling I managed to run SmallWiki 1 in headless mode >>> with >>> VisualWorks. I added a number of actions (in an extension, of >>> course) >>> to save an image, quit it, save-and-quit it so that I can launch >>> SmallWiki as a daemon when the machine boots, and with the intention >>> to >>> save it when the machine goes down (need to test this further since >>> I >>> do not know whether OS-X will actually wait until my script is >>> finished >>> before killing the headless-VW process, but ok). I added the >>> necessary >>> Mac OS-X config files to do this (configurable and all). >>> >>> Are other people in need of this? Is there a good place to put these >>> things? CincomStore maybe? With a description on some SmallWiki >>> page? >>> Maybe other people can chime in and put their >>> configurations/scripts/batch files for other OS-s and Smalltalk >>> versions (or, ahum, maybe it already exists and I overlooked it)? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Roel Wuyts >>> DeComp >>> roel.wuyts(a)ulb.ac.be Université Libre >>> de >>> Bruxelles >>> http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~rowuyts/ >>> Belgique >>> Vice-President of the European Smalltalk Users Group: www.esug.org >> >> -- >> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >> Alexandre Bergel http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~bergel >> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >> >> > Roel Wuyts > DeComp > roel.wuyts(a)ulb.ac.be Université Libre de > Bruxelles > http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~rowuyts/ > Belgique > Vice-President of the European Smalltalk Users Group: www.esug.org > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~bergel ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.