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Re: annoyingly repetitive test of whether posting works
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:55:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.test, David Koudys wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.test, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > test
> > 
> > Rats!  I was expecting repetitive test postings...
> 
> These postings ARE repetitive, because I find myself posting here "to see
> if LUGNET is accepting posts" rather more frequently than I'd rather,
> because LUGNET is  exhibiting "your post was not accepted, return code 0"
> behaviour rather more frequently than I'd like.
> 
> The next repetition will occur the next time I notice that, so save that
> canned response for then!
> 
> (FUT admin.general because it has to do with the health of the server)

I'm really sorry about that.  I've got a script that runs once a minute and
checks whether xinetd is running, and if it finds that it isn't, it restarts
it.  I installed this a couple months ago when we had the massive NNTP
traffic -- it was causing xinetd to die sporadically.

Anyway, what I've noticed over the past few weeks is that whenever xinetd
has stopped serving new NNTP connections, it's still sitting around with a
process running.  That is, the main xinetd process hasn't stopped running,
it's just not serving new connections anymore.  My automatic restart script
then notices this and tries to do a kill -9 on it, but for some reason I
don't understand, that doesn't always succeed in killing it.  However,when
I log in and kill it manually as the same user, that always successfully
kills it.  It's bizarre and starting to drive me nuts because it's happening
like once a week now.

--Todd

[xfut => .admin.nntp]



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  Re: annoyingly repetitive test of whether posting works
 
(...) I guess your script could try killing it every couple of seconds until it dies? Or does it continue to fail? ROSCO (23 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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