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2.6 Suspending a Server

Each server can only run one repository at a time: to run another repository, you need to start another server, or to suspend the current server first. Similarly, the server can not remain running if the server program is closed (via File | Exit) or killed. The server requires its windowing session to be and remain alive. If your operating system allows you to keep a windowing session alive as a background process even after the user who started the server has logged out, and to reattach that windowing session to a screen later, you may be able to keep the MetaEdit+ server running as a background process, whilst logging out yourself.

If you do not wish to remain logged in e.g. overnight, you must suspend the server by choosing Server Suspend from the Server launcher, and then close the server program by File | Exit. The server should then be restarted the next time you log in.

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