Re: Restarting only certain catalogs

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>******    message to minivend-users from Mike Lerley <mike@bfent.com>
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>Is there any way to selectively re-read configuration data for only one
>minivend catalog, rather than issuing a "restart" command and dumping
>them all?  If I'm working on one site, I don't want the others to keep
>restarting.  Thanks...
>-mike
>
>--

next time you happen to be in the mvend/bin directory look fo file named
reconfig. less the file.

At some other time you may end up in your catalogs home directory. Try ls
again. Another file named reconfig.

A pattern emerges.

next look at very big file minivend.html. Many people have read this file
according to their postings. I have not read it, I look only at short
sections that answer my questions. Searching for reconfig in this file will
answer yours:

reconfig
	A script file, which when executed, will cause the catalog.cfg file to
	be re-read and the catalog configuration to change. If errors occur,
	the catalog will stay with its old/previous configuration. This
	script is set up by the makecat program, but may require editing if you
	deviate from the standard MiniVend configuration. It operates by
	executing the link program that is contained in the CGI directory
	and passing the proper parameters through the environment.


More information is in the same file, in the section "ADMINISTERING
MINIVEND", subsection "User reconfiguration".

To answer your question: Yes.

Frank


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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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