Re: [Webware-discuss] Crappy Linux Startup script

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 01:46 AM 4/10/2001 -0400, Dillon Jones wrote:
>Chuck,
>
>Attached is my init script.  If you'd prefer it in a patch format, let
>me know what I need to do--I'm not a patch expert and I'm not certain
>what to patch against at this point.

A patch AFAIK I know is just a diff (man diff). Then the apply command 
injects it into a file.

Not a big deal this time. I can just work with your file.


Patches pay off more for larger files or whole projects where you really 
just want to send the changes.


>For future implementations, a global [/etc/WebKit?] file or directory
>would be useful for some of the things Tripp Lilley pointed out.  While
>the configurations for WebKit may reside in WebKit's directory, if you
>run multiple kits, you probably want a global configuration file that
>the locals can [possibly] override.  Much as you can configure virtual
>sites in apache to log to their own files or leave the default, which is
>to log to the system-wide httpd log files.
>
>Example of my babbling:
>A control file containing uid to run as and location of WebKit:
>
>     daemon=app1:/home/www/virtual/app1
>     daemon=goodcust:/home/www/virtual/goodcust
>
>init sources/parses the control file and starts 2 AppServers:
>     daemon --user app1 /home/www/virtual/app1/AppServer
>     daemon --user goodcust /home/www/virtual/goodcust/AppServer
>
>
>I know this is easy to implement in unix/linux, and I suspect it would
>be fairly easy to do with nt (though that's not my forte').

Good idea.

-Chuck