Auto Restart package for QNAP users

[simoncn]

(10-10-2013 15:12)KoS Wrote:  Hi Simon

i wanted to create an autorestart package for QNAP building on the work of the script of winxi:
https://forum.minimserver.com/showthread.php?tid=426

i saw that he uses a very elegant way to send commands to the local minim instance. he uses a named pipe which is connected to the STDIN of minim.

checking a bit deeper i saw that this pipe is created by the minimserver-package itself, and it exists only in the synology package of minimserver but not on QNAP. is the named pipe something that is used on all synology-packages, or is it something that you have added? if it is the second, why haven't you added it to the QNAP package of minimserver too?

as i would like to use the QNAP minimserver package provided by you, it would be nice if you could add the named pipe to your package script, so that i don't have to adopt it locally. then i would make the QNAP autorestart package and share it in the forum. what do you think about that?

greets
KoS

Thanks for this offer to create an Auto Restart package for QNAP.

The named pipe on Synology was added specifically for MinimServer, and isn't a standard part of Synology packages.

I am hoping to add automatic update scanning to a future release of MinimServer and make this available for all platforms. This would be better than using an "Auto Restart" package because it would not be necessary to rescan the entire library, just the files that have changed.

Because of this, I'd prefer not to do extra work to add named pipe support to MinimServer for additional platforms. Instead, I think it would be more useful for me to put my efforts into implementing automatic update scanning.