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Re: Newsserver downtime
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:16:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger writes:
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?

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...

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 Todd has some pretty well-built stuff here.  Most sites
die a horrible death the first time they get SlashDotted...

Congrats, Todd!

Jeff



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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... (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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