Some help, please

[Clay Hughes]

There is a huge difference in performance and stability between Frontier 7 and Fronter 6 for the Mac. If you can, it might be best to run Frontier 7 for MacOS X and many of the stability problems should disappear.

There is a revised "KeepFrontierRunning" for MacOS X on the Frontier for MacOS X Site, but I don't have the URL at the moment. It doesn't appear that the site is indexed by Userland's search engine :-(.

We have been running Frontier 7 on MacOS for a couple years now and have almost no stability problems to speak of (under a light-moderate load). Each of our servers is restarted every night and we use either Rebound/Kick-Off to detect crashes/freezes and to restart the server if an application quits unexpectedly. (I don't know if Kick-Off is available for MacOS X).

I've just tried to set up Frontier on MacOS X Server and had all kinds of trouble (mostly with permissions). I went back to MacOS X client and things worked much better, but I would also like to see better documentation on getting Frontier set up on MacOS X. Even better, it would be nice to have some kind of set-up wizard for installing Frontier on MacOS X that would take care of many of the dirty details.

FWIW, Clay Hughes


>Anyone with some ideas:
>
>1--We're running Frontier 6.2 on an OS X box.  This is kept open from the
>root, which is not the best for security.  The only solution we see for
>this (snip...)