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Several clients running at the same time

Asked by cats

Will you make it possible for users to run multiple clients at the same time? Since the binary always seems to read from the .dc++ config folder then several clients would not work. I am asking this because I am thinking about making a small change in the source code so that the binary reads from the same folder instead, which would be /etc/linuxdcpp/config, which would make it possible to have several clients in separate folders.

Have I missed something, and maybe is it already possible? Or will you make it possible soon, or do I have to make temporary changes to the source?

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Best Razzloss (razzloss) said : 		#1

Well, the config is read from $HOME/.dc++ (or if $HOME isn't available then /tmp/.dc++). You can run multiple clients by providing different HOMEs for each.

For example
$ HOME=/home/user/dc1 linuxdcpp
$ HOME=/home/user/dc2 linuxdcpp
would run 2 clients with different configs.

I'm not sure if I understood what you were going to read from /etc/linuxdcpp/config, but at the moment running multiple clients with the same config directory isn't recommended (and it is prevented by lock file) because Queue- and other data files stored in the .dc++ would be from the client that last wrote them (which might be bad).

--RZ

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cats (cats) said : 		#2

Thanks Razzloss, that solved my question.

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cats (cats) said : 		#3

Doh, never thought about that. Oh well, I made the changes I wanted, and I got a reason to look through the code. The changes I made was in:

--=[client/Util.cpp]=-- row 92

#else
   systemPath = "/etc/";
   char* home = getenv("HOME");
   configPath = home ? Text::toUtf8(home) + "/.dc++/" : "/tmp/";
   dataPath = configPath; // dataPath in linux is usually prefix + /share/app_name, so we can't represent it here

TO

#else
   systemPath = "";
   //char* home = getenv("HOME");
   configPath = ""; //home ? Text::toUtf8(home) + "/.dc++/" : "/tmp/";
   dataPath = configPath; // dataPath in linux is usually prefix + /share/app_name, so we can't represent it here

--=[linux/WulforUtil.cc]=-- row 309

string configPath = home ? string(home) + "/.dc++/" : "/tmp/";
string profileLockingFile = configPath + "profile.lck";

TO

string configPath = "";//home ? string(home) + "/.dc++/" : "/tmp/";
string profileLockingFile = configPath + "profile.lck";

I didn't have time to look through all of the code to make the necessary adjustments to everything, but this little quick fix got the job done :-)

Thanks for your answer :-)