>Regarding item 4. What will be the mechanism to stop the service using >the AppImage, just Ctrl-C? > >I wonder if it will be with another switch: ># AppImage *stop* If you're running the AppImage in the foreground, Ctrl-C will still be the correct way to terminate it. citserver detects SIGINT and goes into an orderly shutdown, and I've already put the code into place to make ctdlvisor pass that through cleanly. My intention for background operation is to have an invocation like "citadel.AppImage install" which creates a systemd unit file to handle the correct startup and shutdown commands. Services started by systemd don't have to go into the background because the supervisor handles that for you. It is also trivial to configure it to stop the service by sending SIGTERM, which also shuts things down cleanly. A couple of weeks ago I significantly reduced the number of things citserver tries to do before it closes its databases. Previously it tried to end every session, free every buffer, really put everything away. Now it just goes right for the database close, which makes it far more likely to finish in the 30 seconds it has before the program is forcefully terminated.
Bottom line, the AppImage effort is forcing us to clean up a lot of things that are making the whole system more solid.
