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Re: annoyingly repetitive test of whether posting works
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:41:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
I guess your script could try killing it every couple of seconds until it dies?
Or does it continue to fail?
ROSCO
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