Hello mark,

Sunday January 25 2015, mark lewis wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 BM>> While you're open to *suggestions*... is there anyway you can add
 BM>> semaphore support to allow binkd (win32) to go into a *sleep*
 BM>> mode to allow a nightly maintanence for logs?

 MD>> If your win32 binkd runs permanently then it is natural to run it
 MD>> as a Windows service. To stop the service for some maintenance
 MD>> use

 ml> not everyone runs binkd as a hidden service... some of us prefer to
 ml> run it in a window so we can see what's really going on

If your binkd runs 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, do you really watch the window
all that time? :) As to me, I prefer going asleep sometimes. And if the
computer is rebooted, I am sure binkd starts automatically because it works as
a service.

 ml> without having to run another process to tail the log file...

There is no 'tail' command in Windows but there are other means of viewing an
expanding log file. For example, Far Manager allows viewing a dynamically
growing file similar to 'tail -f' in Linux.

 MD>> binkd -t stop
 MD>> and to start it again use
 MD>> binkd -t start

 ml> do these only work when binkd is running as a service

Yes, they do.

 ml> or will they
 ml> also work when it is being run as a normal process in a window?

AFAIK no.

 ml> does it work on all supported OSes?

Only in Windows.

Michael

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