Re: Server Restarts

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 03:30 PM 7/5/99 , Patrick Schoonveld wrote:
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>Well... Thats what I thought... it does that for some page elements, but
>not others. For example, I am currently building a store from the simple
>example. The results.html file will update like it should, menubar or
>menubottom will not. I have to restart the server to see the changes....
>Any thoughts?

	That's right, you need to run reconfig.  The same applies for [random] and
[rotate]...  your searches may not seem to update if you have searchCache
ON (if you searched on something like 'kalamazoo', or something never
searched before you might find that the results page would show the update.)

>
>Gideon van Gelder wrote:
>> 
>> ******    message to minivend-users from "Gideon van Gelder"
<gideon@swingmaster.nl>     ******
>> 
>> Hi Patrick (of hallo als je inderdaad Nederlander bent)
>> 
>> You don't have to restart the server or even reconfig your catalog after
>> changing a page.
>> You only need to do a restart if you changed a database, a perl module or a
>> config-file or own added subroutine.
>> 
>> If you just changed a database or for instance shipping.asc, you can
make do
>> with /catalogdir/reconfig. to do a reconfig without having to restart the
>> server.
>> 
>> -Gideon
>> 
>> > ******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld
>> <pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******
>> >
>> > I am new to MiniVend and would like to thank you guys for your advice
>> > via this mailing list. It has taught me a lot.
>> >
>> > I have one question I haven't been able to find an answer to in the
>> > docs. Is there a way to get around restarting the server everytime I
>> > change a page?
>> >
>> > Running the latest minivend on a FreeBSD box.


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