5.5 Updating, stopping and removing

The commandsCopy Anchor Link

All of them work from any directory: the command is a wrapper that always starts Gateway in its install directory, where its data lives.

In the background, console output goes to logs/casbin-gateway.out.

UpdatingCopy Anchor Link

The version Gateway is running sits in the top-right corner, with the date it was built, and says New when the published build is a later one.

Open it and press Update now: Gateway downloads the build for this machine, checks that it runs, puts it in place of itself and restarts into it. The page reloads on the new version when it comes back.

Nothing else has to be touched — the data, the settings and the casbin-gateway command all stay where they are.

Gateway installed some other way, or in a directory it cannot write to, says so and shows the install command to run by hand instead. Running the install command again is always a valid upgrade; your database and settings are untouched either way.

Removing itCopy Anchor Link

Run casbin-gateway uninstall first.

Deleting the directory is the part you can do yourself. What that cannot undo is everything Gateway wrote outside it:

• the monitoring hooks in every agent's own configuration,
• the provider each agent was pointed at,
• the login entry,
• the desktop entries,
• and the ccswitch:// scheme registration,

all of which would otherwise be left naming a program that is no longer there.

uninstall puts all of that back, then names the two things to delete by hand:

The agents themselves, their sign-ins and their history are left exactly as they were.

Next: 6.1 Frequently asked questions.