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Re: Newsserver downtime
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:14:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger writes:
have you thought of putting some sort of watchdog processes up, to notify
you (if not fix automagically) when such things happen?

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 could then also send an email notification if it noticed
something squiffy.

--Todd



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  Re: Newsserver downtime
 
(...) 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... (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Newsserver downtime
 
(...) have you thought of putting some sort of watchdog processes up, to notify you (if not fix automagically) when such things happen? (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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