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Re: Newsserver downtime
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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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.
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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...
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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | 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... (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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