Re: calling ConTeXt as a background process (SOLVED)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 26-10-2010 10:56, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
> 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).

sure, but I guess that some path specs have ~ and that we get a loop in 
the resolver due to this and for these patsh with ~ we need a proper 
default then

> Let's sort this out offlist.

okay

Hans

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