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- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:03:41 GMT
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- Subject: Re: Alternate UIC for MULTINET_SERVER?
- X-RFC822-From: simon@internode.com.au (Simon Hackett)
- From: simon@internode.com.au
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210341@TGV.COM>
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- > We are trying to develop a local application to provide weather data to
- > a group of observatories here in Hawaii. There is no problem getting the
- > MultiNet ser ver to spawn off a process to get the data, however, due to
- > the way in which the weather station data we need is used by our
- > telescope control systems, the data resides in a Group global section
- > and is therefore unreadable by the spawned process. Is it possible to
- > modify the RUN command in START_SERVER.COM so that the server is started
- > by a (fully-privileged) UIC in the proper group? Will anything else
- > break if we do this?
- >
- > (For various reasons, it is not possible to rewrite the weather software
- > to use a system global section.)
- >
-
- There are two other alternatives that might work for you:
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- #1: run your server independently to the MULTINET_SERVER process (See
- the standalone examples in the back of the MultiNet documentation and
- in the MultiNet examples directory for some starting points for this)
-
- #2: write a program which reads the global section (and which runs
- with the right group id), and have that program "publish" the weather
- data to anyone who wants it by using some other mechanism (e.g.
- reading the contents of the global section via a system wide mailbox,
- or some similar mechanism).
-
- Simon
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