I didn't know that. Thanks for the reply! Now I have a new set of questions. First, how do I list myself as an admin? Should I just literally add my login detail in the config file? Second, my colleague would like to be able to edit and view the changes that he has made in his tools, even if I am doing some editing myself. Yesterday, he was running Galaxy and I was editing some tools. Since he has already started the instance, I got a socket error telling me that the address was already in use. Because of that, I was not able to see my revisions. What can we do about this? We're currently searching for ways on how Galaxy can handle 'multiusers'.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Ross <ross.lazarus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Ciara,

AFAIK new tools always require a server restart at present, but an
already loaded tool can have updates to the tool XML re-read using the
'Reload a tool's configuration' option from the administrative menu if
your login is listed as an administrator in the config file.

Restarting Galaxy seems relatively benign if jobs are running on a
cluster. SGE jobs (eg) will be correctly handled and managed. Busy
users may see a service unavailable message from Apache for the time
it takes to restart but in my experience they can generally cope with
the occasional unscheduled server bounce to import a new tool - YMMV

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Ciara Ledero <lederoc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I understand that everytime I create a new tool, I would have to restart
> Galaxy to see the changes that I've made. But if somebody else has already
> started Galaxy on our server, I won't be able to see my newly developed
> tool. I would be able to access the site, yes, but I won't see my tool. Is
> there a way around this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> CL
>