Thank you. I will look at it.
On Oct 9, 8:22 am, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think we might have a bit of a terminology issue here. From the
> operating system's standpoint, web2py is a service. I'm not talking
> about that. When I say web2py service, I mean things that are strictly
> linked and (I dare say) actually are *meant* to run under web2py, but
> are not tightly coupled with the actual actions of the user (see
> session cleanup, cron tasks specific to the application). As a
> requirement, web2py services should be able to run under whatever
> platform and environment web2py is running from, something that is
> certainly not easily achieveable if this is done as a separate
> service.
>
> As for Steve's concern, I've just sent a proof-of-concept patch to
> Massimo which does the above in a way that does not cause any
> detectable performance degradation for users.
>
> As for the last post, I don't see how you can control web2py services
> from a web2py application ? If you're not root, you have no access to
> init scripts (and you certainly don't want web2py to run as root). If
> you're running under mod_wsgi/fastcgi, you can't even control the
> current running process, much less influence the actual webserver
> web2py is behind.
>
> On Oct 9, 8:04 am, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anyway.... it would be possibl, and I do not see anything wrong with,
> > creating a web2py app that provide an OS interface to start and stop
> > web2py services.
> > Anybody?
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Oct 9, 12:41 am, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I agree with Steve. Running services from inside web2py is not clean.
> > > Consider that web2py threads are managed by the web server and are
> > > subject to many limitations because of security (timeout, limited
> > > permissions, etc.). Services instead are supposed to be managed by the
> > > os and may need to run without timeout and with less restrictive
> > > permissions.
>
> > > Notice that you can create a folder "services" under you app and then
> > > start another instance of web2py from the shell using
>
> > > nohup python web2py.py -S yourapp -M -R applications/yourapp/services/
> > > yourservice.py &
>
> > > On Oct 8, 8:57 pm, "Steve Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Is this as a response to remoinvg the usage of CRON?
> > > > Does the overhead hurt Web2py performance?
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