Forum OpenACS Development: NaviServer on Windows: How to restart on Windows? How to exit with error code?

We've got an issue on Windows with the restart function of NaviServer / AOLserver:

- ns_shutdown actually behaves correctly. It shuts down the server with a zero(?) error code indicating correct behavior.

There is an option in Windows to automatically restart a service (first error, second error, consecutive errors). However, this only works in case of an error.

In order to use this functionality, we'd have to ns_shutdown NaviServer with an error code.

Maybe there is some hidden "ns_abort" function or some other possibility to quit NaviServer and to return an error code?

Do you see any alternatives? Maybe let the server kill itself?

We've got a "service monitor" process running that actually monitors the status of the service. However, not all users will actually run this service, so I'd prefer to use the Windows built-in option...

Cheers,
Frank

Great! And it works works on Windows.

However, I'd have to patch /acs-admin/server-restart then.

Would it be an option to include the -restart parameter for the next OpenACS version?

I checked the rest of the code. This was the only use of ns_shutdown, except for the bootstrap installer. Are you aware of any other use I might have missed?

Cheers,
Frank

Good points.
So yeah, a configuration option would be great in one of the next OpenACS options.

Meanwhile we've patched the code in OpenACS 5.9 to do the -restart on Windows. There is no time pressure, because it will probably be years before we do the next update.

Cheers,
Frank