[Xitami] Xitmai restart utility/daemon

[Anthony Shipley --- Remove NUMERALS to reply]

This might be a bit cryptic but it might offer a better way to restart =
FoxWeb
channels.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:15:33 +0000, Simon <simon@infowizard.co.uk> wrote =
with
verve and grace:

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>Hello Tom,
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>On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:19:01 -0500 your time, you said:
>
>TB> I just named mine xitami.bat (irrelevant, really), and launch that
>TB> INSTEAD of launching Xitami directly.
>
>Sorry,  I  misunderstood  you.  I was assuming that the process was an
>automatic one and that the batch file was called by Xitami. Thanks for
>your  suggestion  though,  but  I  really  wanted something that would
>restart Xitami without any intervention from me. However, I did manage
>to put together a rough workaround that didn't cost anything.
>
>First  of all I downloaded a free program called Active Server Watcher
>from here: http://www.ntutility.com/freeware_2.html.
>
>Then I downloaded this free command line utility called 'process' from
>here: http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/processutil/processutil.htm
>
>'Active  Server  Watcher'  monitors  web resources so I created a page
>called  poll.htm  under  Xitami  and  set  ASW  to poll that every few
>minutes. If the page becomes unavailable I have set ASW to test 5 more
>times  before  running  an external file. The file is xigui32.bat (see
>below).  However,  I didn't want to just load a new instance of Xitami
>just  because  a  page  wasn't  reachable because as it may be totally
>unrelated  to Xitami, and could after all be DNS or temp network fault
>etc. So I use the freeware commandline file 'process' to terminate any
>running instance of xigui32.exe first and then the batch reloads a new
>instance, making certain that only one instance of Xitami is running.
>
>- --- BEGIN xigui32.bat
>
>BEGIN:
>X:
>cd X:\[path]\Xitami
>goto KILL
>
>:KILL
>process.exe -k xigui32.exe
>goto RESTART
>
>:RESTART
>start xigui32.exe
>goto END
>
>:END
>- --- END xigui32.bat
>
>This works fine. It may not be the 'cleanest' way to do it but it is a
>workaround.
>
>- --
>Sl=E1n,
>
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regards - anthony shipley

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