[plt-scheme] autostarting plt-web-server

From: Andrew Reilly (andrew-scheme at areilly.bpc-users.org)
Date: Sat Jan 31 23:19:08 EST 2009

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Henk Boom wrote:
> A better way to make sure only one instance of the script runs at a
> time would be to put a symlink to the process in a predefined place,
> and check that instead.

This is the sort of thing that Dan Bernstein's daemon-tools is
designed to fix (also other things like Apple's launchd and
Sun's equivalent).  I've been happily using daemon-tools for
years: easy and reliable way to make and look after "services".

Cheers,

Andrew


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