chat install gone crazy
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Last night I came across a slick little chat tool built with Flash, Perl, and XML. I decided to download it and run in on my site as a neat little feature but couldn’t get it to work.
Out of frustration I emailed Dave (one of the creaters of this program) and he suprizingly emailed me right back. I made the changes he told me to and it still wouldn’t work, so I emailed him back.
Then all of the suddon he popped up on the pushby.com site in the public server area. We talked for a small bit and started working on why I couldn’t get this app to work. After awhile we figured out why it wasn’t working. I was trying to “nohup” a process but would die when I logged out.
This was horribly depressing and we came to realization that it couldn’t be done on my server :-(
I called my hosting company and talked them into giving me some space on another server (for free of course) but for some reason I can’t get in. Everyone else I had check could get in.
…Sigh - I’m just having a hard time with all these little problems.
James Rubingh Says:
So dont run it that way. Use the program nohup to run your program for you with the hup signals to be ignored.
That makes it so that your process will still be running after you log out. Most unix systems will have this commands (and btw, running processes in the background like that is really annoying for your system admin)