Has anyone released a library or set of components that would allow you to boot up, shut down, or otherwise fool around with Dreamdaemon via your web browser from a remote machine? I have a server sitting here with 3 cores almost completely idle 95% of the time, it could be a perfectly functional BYOND host machine if game creators had a way to manage their games remotely on my machine.
Just curious if anyone has created anything like this, my limited searching hasn't turned up anything.
~Polatrite~
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 Apr 27 2009, 5:07 am
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Polatrite wrote:
(...) a remote machine (...) Running which OS? Or, in other words, DM CGI might be capable of doing the job for you (on Linux). | |
TheMonkeyDidIt wrote:
Out of my own curiousity as much as a suggestion (and I very well could be speaking out of ignorance here), but: I would be hosting on Windows. I use Windows for everything, including my web and file host (I really have no interest in Linux at all). The target library would basically feature a user login, a way to start or stop a game belonging to that user on a prespecified port, and a way to change the basic Daemon options - trust level and visibility level. Using these and FTP, I think a basic hosting plan could be implemented rather easily. ~Polatrite~ | |
I'm thinking this is going to be tricky on Windows, for two reasons.
Firstly I don't think Windows DreamDaemon is designed for that kind of automated control, unlike the Linux build. Secondly I don't really know how capable the Windows command line is, whether you could retrieve PIDs for Dreamseeker instances and perhaps manipulate them through a rudimentary kill/start arrangement. Frankly neither Windows nor BYOND on Windows seem up to the task of automated remote process management via a web interface. I can foresee perhaps something like AutoIt scripting called in some manner, but it cries both hack and buggy. | |
Can't you use putty or some other SSH? Is there a reason you need to do it via web browser?
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