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The LUGNET newsserver was down for approximately 30 hours (as you probably
noticed) and is now back up and running. (Actually, the newsserver itself
never stopped running and serving articles, but it did stop accepting
articles.)
The problem: According to the server logs, the server was rebooted yesterday
(Monday) at approximately 2:25pm EST. A stale lockfile in one of the
newsserver's control directories seems to have caused new incoming articles
to be put on hold (about 250 articles). I'm not sure yet how or why the stale
lockfile appeared, but I also see a runaway load average about one hour prior.
Removing the lockfile caused all the queued-up articles immediately to appear
and the also caused the normal functioning of the newsserver to resume.
I apologize for not attending to this sooner. I was picking up Suzanne (who
is not home and doing well) at the hospital yesterday afternoon and only now
tonight checked in online. The problem only took about a half hour to diagnose
and fix. In hindsight, I should have published an emergency phone number long
ago.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
====================
In the event of an emergency relating to LUGNET, please call this number:
617-489-7072
If no one answers, or if the line is busy, then call this number:
617-970-3126
--Todd
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| (...) Hmm, in fact -- tomorrow would be an excellent time to do a "fire drill" of this. Would some volunteer to call these two numbers sometime around 12:00 noon (EST) tomorrow (Wednesday)? We'll be in Enfield and I think it would be a great test. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| FUT lugnet.admin.general Perhaps you should set up a separate status page on an unconnected server. That way status of LUGNEet can be checked before an "EMERGENCY" is reported - ie if the status is reported "normal", when evidently its is not, users (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ahhh, Todd, welcome back ... It's amazing how much slower the day at work goes without LUGNET there. Just the other day I was thinking that it's time I made another installment in my LUGNET donations, and this only redoubled my conviction to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Todd, Any chance that at least some ONE other AFOL Sys Admin type can have the keys to the Lugnet Kingdom? I mean, its perfectly reasonable for you and Suzanne to have downtime too. Maybe a person local to you, someone in Nelug...? Lastly, is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Whew!!!! I'm glad it wasn't me that brought it down. I think my post was the last one that posted before the downtime. I once stopped rush hour traffic dead in it's tracks in the city center of Kulmbach Germany when my sweaty parking ticket (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Todd Lehman wrote: ... (...) She's home, yes? Or not? When I read it the first time I assumed you meant "now". -John (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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