Re: Question about installing MiniVend

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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greg strockbine wrote:

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> www.best.com allows each customer to have one
> background process running, so in this case it
> would be the MiniVend server.
>
> MiniVend doesn't require an entry in the /etc/inetd.conf
> file does it?
>

No, the process is started at boot time.

> What if the www.best.com server crashes how do I
> get the MiniVend server going again - do I use the
> `at' command to make an entry in the cron table?

The sysadmin of www.best.com needs to put the MV startup script into their boot
sequence.  Mine?  its started after all network is fired up and running.  Cron is used
for the EXPIREALL process, but not for starting or stopping MV.

Barry

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