Re: Multiple instances of mol


Subject: Re: Multiple instances of mol
From: Sean Mahrt (bigmouth@pionet.net)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 21:41:27 MDT


Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:04:40PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > a while ago, somebody mentioned the possibility of running multiple
> > instances of mol on the same machine. Is that possible at all with
> > the current release, and if yes, what needs to be done to set it up?
> > Unfortunately, I can't find the original post, so even a pointer would
> > be appreciated.
>
> Yes, multi-session support is working (but undocumented).
> To test it, do the following:
>
> - Create one molrc file for each session (named
> /etc/molrc-N)
>
> - Make sure AltiVec is disabled on G4 machines (there appears
> to be a bug in the AltiVec register saving code).
>
> - Start each instance of MOL using the --session switch
> (e.g 'startmol --session=3').
>
> Note: the sheep_net networking will currently not work properly
> if more than one session is run simultaneously (but a tan/tup
> solution ought to be possible).
>
> /Samuel
>
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No, but 3 sessions seem to handle regular ethernet mapping. Funny, that
dhcp doesn't seem to work, though. Had to manually enter ip's...

Sean



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