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Anton A. YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	A way to run processing server-side? Apr 26th, 2010, 12:07pm   I want processing to be run server-side (once per 15 min or something with crontab) on a linux server, so that it would generate a static image that would eventually be shown to the users of the website. Is this possible? Has anyone here done it?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: A way to run processing server-side? Reply #1 - Apr 26th, 2010, 2:05pm   This have been asked a few times already in this forum... Processing isn't really designed for headless run... There is a command line mode, but I am not sure if it is able not to spawn a new window.

Anton A. YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: A way to run processing server-side? Reply #2 - Apr 26th, 2010, 4:23pm   I figured it out... For those looking, here is a shell script i run to do it: It's a terrible hack but it works. Xvfb :2 & export DISPLAY=":2" ./myapp killall -9 Xvfb (need to install Xvfb first & have X11 libs installed)

hpf YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: A way to run processing server-side? Reply #3 - Jun 2nd, 2010, 7:53am   hi there, i would like to do the same thing. how did you supply the command line params? i can't seem to find a list of command line params, i guess there should be one that accepts the script and then just plays it and quits processing when done. thank you

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: A way to run processing server-side? Reply #4 - Jun 2nd, 2010, 9:11am   See Commander class reference.