[MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

Charlie Clark charlie at begeistert.org
Wed May 20 05:54:43 EDT 2020


On 20 May 2020, at 1:08, Randall Gellens wrote:

> I thought Marc wanted both instances running simultaneously (for 
> example, one could be an active client applying rules and managing 
> things more or less autonomously, while the other is used 
> interactively for handling specific messages.)  To run multiple 
> instances at the same time, I think a VM or separate machine or 
> different user would work.  To run different instances serially (only 
> one at a time), moving files back and forth via a script would work 
> (Years back, I used a script that triggered when I switched Location, 
> that killed the Retrospect daemon, renamed the active Retrospect 
> configuration file to a specific name based on where it had come from, 
> then renamed a Location-specific version of the Retrospect 
> configuration file to be the active one.  It used extended file 
> attributes to mark each file with the name of Location it went with.  
> That way, when I moved my laptop between home and work, the correct 
> Retrospect configuration was active.)

On a single machine, I reckon having different MacOS users is easier and 
safer than swapping config files back and forth. Though profiles à la 
Firefox (essentiell if running things like Selenium) would be a good 
idea.

Charlie

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