From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T02:40:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Instiki 0.6.0: Feeds, Exports, Safety, and Compatibility

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:07:02PM +0900, Dick Davies wrote:
> My understanding was that Madeleine is happy to just be killed, so
> I don't think it's any safer to have a pidfile (plus you have to manually
> clean it up in the case of a crash).
> 
> But an 'instiki.rb -stop <webname>' or 'instiki.rb -stopall' command
> would probably need one, so maybe it's a necessaly evil?

Or run it under a process monitor such as djb's daemontools. No pidfiles
needed (they have all kinds of problems). On Windows, run it as a service.

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