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Re: Newsserver downtime
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:18:28 GMT
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:14:59PM +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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?
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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 could then also send an email notification if it noticed
> something squiffy.
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...
--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
<set:900_2>: 4 small wheels with accessories (LEGO/BASIC/Accessories), '69
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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