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| (...) have you thought of putting some sort of watchdog processes up, to notify you (if not fix automagically) when such things happen? (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | | | Re: Newsserver downtime
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| (...) Yes -- in this case it might be able to be a cron job that checks every 5 minutes and examines the timestamp on the lockfile, if present. If it saw that the lockfile was more than a couple minutes old, it could mv or rm it out of the way. It (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | | | Re: Newsserver downtime
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| (...) or something that will look at the spool dir, see if files are getting stuck there, and just lets you know (pager/email) that something's blocking... (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Y'Know, I was thinking about this - LUGNet has been slashdotted a couple of times that I can think of, and it didn't collapse under that load. I guess that means that this was a *very* high load - as in probably an attack, and furthermore that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Has Lugnet itself been /.ed, or has information that people have posted to Lugnet about (like, say, scans of a new catalogue which are being hosted at another website) been /.ed? If it was Lugnet, when was it? I'm confused and curious (which (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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