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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: IntrNet application server in background?
From:       Bigpond <tchur () BIGPOND ! COM>
Date:       1999-01-29 22:24:49
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Have a look at the Windows NT Server Resource Kit. It has a utility which
supposedly can run nearly any programme as a service. Haven't tried it yet
for SAS/IntrNet servers but I intend to.

Cheers,

Tim Churches

-----Original Message-----
From: Peterson Christopher L MSgt AFPC/DPSARA
<Christopher.Peterson@AFPC.RANDOLPH.AF.MIL>
To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Date: Saturday, 30 January 1999 9:08
Subject: Re: IntrNet application server in background?


>If anyone knows how to run a session as a service in NT, please pass that
>along also.
>
>Chris Peterson
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dwight Eggers [mailto:eusdee1@EXU.ERICSSON.SE]
>Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 8:09 AM
>To: SAS-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: IntrNet application server in background?
>
>
>All references I find in the IntrNet documentation demonstrate running a
>SAS IntrNet application dispatcher in the foreground using a command of the
>form
>
>  af c=sashelp.web.appstart.scl port=5001 logwind
>       srvroot='[application]/srvroot'
>
>I have incorporated this into a unix shell script which invokes SAS
>using
>
>$SASROOT/sas -dmsbatch                           \
>    -fsd ascii.vt100                             \
>    -altlog $APACHE/saslog/${PORT}.$$.saslog     \
>    -initcmd "af c=sashelp.web.appstart.scl port=$PORT logwind \
>              srvroot='[application]/srvroot' "
>
>which avoids have a dms session, but still runs the process in the
>foreground.
>It fails in every effort I've made to move it to the background.
>
>Now that I am ready to move a prototype from my test environment to
>production, my web administrator tells me that it is very bad practice
>to run a server in the foreground.  From an rlogin session, it is
vulnerable
>to communications problems and other activity on the client that could
>disrupt that process.
>
>How can this be done in the background?
>
>I am waiting for Tech Support, but I need to get this application into
>production this afternoon and assumed that others have had to tackle
>this issue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dwight.Eggers@ericsson.com

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