Re: calling ConTeXt as a background process (SOLVED)

From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: calling ConTeXt as a background process (SOLVED)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:56:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC74086.4090906@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC7358E.4080306@wxs.nl>

On 10/26/10 22:09, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 26-10-2010 9:28, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>
>> Hi Henning,
>>
>> On 10/08/10 21:44, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>> Ok, the failures were the same with fcgi and gunicorn app servers.
>>>
>>> But it _works_ with django's dev server (which you must not use in
>>> production due to memory/security holes etc.).
>>
>> We just had a somewhat similar problem (texlua hung at 100% cpu
>> when run via apache) and it turns out, after lots of debugging,
>> that mtxrun cannot do anything without $HOME. Perhaps yours was
>> a different symptom of the same problem ?
>>
>> try this if you want to test CPU heat generation:
>>
>>    $ env HOME= context knuth
> 
> so what should HOME default to then? "."?

Not a default is what is needed, what is needed is that it should work
without a HOME at all (server processes typically dont have one).
Let's sort this out offlist.

Best wishes,
Taco
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