Saturday, 29 August 2015

Re: Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)

> In article <54f9b39313GroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk>,
> Rod at Orpheusmail <GroverR@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Would you elaborate please, as I don't fully understand. (The bit
>> about 'kill' facility that is).

cj wrote on 29 Aug:
> I haven't sorted the best UI yet, which is why it is not in the
> release version. Basically, as part of a job you could list tasks
> that should be killed if running (and restarted again at the end of
> the job). For example, if you have a job to backup your Pluto
> directory and data files, you could include Pluto in a kill file for
> that job. When it came to this job, SyncDiscs would check whether
> Pluto was running, and if so, issue a task close message before
> starting the backup. There would then be no chance of the data files
> changing part way through the backup, and hence the backup of Pluto
> ending up in an inconsistent state. This could be extended to restart
> Pluto once the job has completed.a

> However, I am not sure whether such a facility would be of general
> interest.

Err, umm, sorry to sound as if my initials are D R, but I'm lost:
is this anything to do with the subject line?

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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk

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