Re: standalone wiki

I know nothing about pythonw but couldn't you do this (if you're on *nix)

pythonw moin.py > /dev/null 2>&1

If you really want that output just dump it to a file instead of /dev/null.



Michael Iles wrote:

>I recently set up a standalone wiki using moin.py on a Win2K box, and ran
>into the following problem. When I had things working the way I wanted them
>I replaced the call to 'python moin.py' with 'pythonw moin.py' so I wouldn't
>have the shell window hanging around. However, the wiki would then crash
>within a few hours on the call to sys.stdout.write with an exception saying
>that it was an invalid file descriptor. So the sys module must have been
>buffering the output (which consisted mostly of the little spinning bar
>characters '\|/-') and when it got around to writing to stdout, which
>doesn't exist for pythonw, it crashed.
>
>I have two comments on this:
>
>1. This should be noted somewhere in the docs. In retrospect this is
>obvious, but at the time I thought that pythonw was a drop-in equivalent to
>python. (I'm still a bit surprised that pythonw doesn't just discard
>anything written to stdout.)
>
>2. What's the recommended approach to running a standalone wiki on Windows?
>My first instinct is to change moin.py to detect whether stdout is valid and
>if not, to point stdout/stderr at a log file and also to remove the spinning
>bar in httpdmain.py. Better ideas?
>
>Mike.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Waldmann
>Sent: March 20, 2004 5:07 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Moin-devel] standalone wiki
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>>I have described how to set up the standalone wiki. Should I put this into
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>the 
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>>masterwiki ?
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>Yes, integrate it into the install docs there.
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