[omniORB] Starting omninames with -start option

[Visscher, Bruce]

> I need to install omninames on several windows 2003 machines in an 
> automatic way.
> I want to start omninames as a windows service using srvany.
> The service is started when the machine is booted.
> This means that I always want to start omninames with the 
> option -start 
> (I don't need to recover any context after reboot).
> But if I start omninames with the option -start and the log 
> file already 
> exists, omninames refuses to start ...

I still don't understand why your installation procedure can't:

1. If no log file exists, then run omniNames -start.
2. Install omniNames using srvany (without -start).

Or:

1. If a log file does exist then delete it.
2. run omniNames -start
3. install omniNames using srvany (without -start).

Or something similar.  If you really want to wipe out the
backing store everytime then why not write a simple wrapper
that deletes the log file then spawns omniNames -start?  Then
install that using srvany.

Your point about -start failing if the log file exists is
well taken.  Since we specified "-start" then we must want to
initialize the backing store so why not just wipe it out if
it exists.

Two problems I see with this are:

(1) Naive users might routinely put "-start" on the command
line since that always works.  That would defeat the purpose
of the backing store.  I'm not saying this isn't a valid way
to operate (always start clean upon restart), I just don't
think it the installation process (crude as is) should do this
without warning.

(2) I suspect there might be a lot of people that are used to
the way omniNames works as it is.  If you really want this behavior 
then I wouuld suggest creating a new option that overwrites the log
file unconditionally.

Bruce

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