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Re: [mv] 2 weeks up en then it suddenly dies.....
At 10:50 AM 9/20/1999 , Ed LaFrance wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
<edlafrance@printexusa.com> ******
>
>> Hi all! I have been implementing 3.14 in a demo winestore. It
>>works great but once in a (long) while the minivend server is
>>unavailable. Then I telnet the machine to restart it. Is that something I
>>should have to live with? Or is there a solution? (It is fed by an SQL
>>database, could this have caused the problem?) Thanks in advance. Fred.
>
>Fred -
>
>I found this in the mailist archive:
>
>problem: when trying to access MiniVend occassionally would receive:
>"We're sorry, the MiniVend server is unavailable..."
>
>when running /mvend/bin/restart I received the message:
>"Apparently no MiniVend daemons were up -- no PID files."
>
>solution: according to Web2010 Tech Support
>
>>...we do periodically shutdown the server to clear any errant processes.
>>This procedure >is most likely what is shutting down MiniVend.
>
>>A trick we use in this situation is to create a simple script to start the
>>program:
>>#!/bin/bash
>>var=`ps -ax | grep "user/mvend" | grep -v -c grep`
>>if [ 0 -eq $var ]
>>then
>>/mnt/web/guide/user/mvend/bin/restart &
>>fi
>
>>Then create a crontab entry to check your program every 10 minutes:
>>crontab -e
>
>>Then add the line
>>5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55 * * * * /mnt/web/guide/...scriptname >> /dev/null 2>$1
>
>Hope that helps any of you who have had similar problems.
That will certainly restart your server if it is down, however, that
doesn't explain why your server crashes. One thing, if it can't find a PID
file, that doesn't mean that the server is not running -- it means that
minivend can't record it's PID to a file when started.
Is it possible that your box is getting rebooted and minivend is not
restarting? You should add a start script to your rc.d or rc.local file!
>
>- Jeff -
>
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