[Mnet-devel] restarted MT for v0.6 network, and installation of v0.7

[icepick]

Zooko wrote:
> Thank you for the quick response.  The way to start Mnet is as simple as 
> "Mnet > log 2>&1 &".   However, I think you should not bother automating 
> this and installing Mnet in your own account yet.
> 
> After PET 2004, I will check to be sure that the right version of Mnet 
> is easy to build and launch so forth.
> 
> So for now let's continue like this -- I'll manually restart the MT on 
> mnet.ibuc.com if I ever notice that we're running low on MetaTrackers.

One way I found that makes it easy to run a daemon like Mnet has a user 
is the @reboot option in the Paul Vixie cron.

I have a script called "run_mnet.sh" that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
cd mnet
LOGFILE=mnet-`date --iso-8601=seconds -u`.log
nohup ./Mnet >$LOGFILE 2>&1 &
rm mnet.log
ln -sf $LOGFILE mnet.log

Then I have a crontab entry like this:

@reboot /home/mnet/run_mnet.sh

(this is assuming that you have a user named "mnet" who has the mnet src 
in ~/mnet).

You may want to skip having the log file.  I can eatup a lot of room.

I look forward to continuing work on 0.7 this weekend, focusing only on 
issues that will make it feature complete with 0.6 (read CT, and GUI).

icepick