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Chris - thank you! Yes, I'd be willing to help out at least to some
extent, and could say more when I know more clearly how things are
set up and what's needed. I do linux sysadmin stuff at work
already. I've signed up for a chambana.net account.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/2/12 8:55 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:<br>
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I think it makes sense to talk about getting some additional folks
admin access to the mail and other servers. Growing the tech
collective is important and I think this illustrates the need to
move forward. We've been in a prolonged transition from several
FreeBSD servers to Debian, and could definitely use some extra
help if you're offering. Of course, sticking with a focus on email
and lists could be a good intro for you both. <br>
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Of course you'll have to set the expectation on what you want to
take on, since as you know the tech scope can creep pretty
quickly.<br>
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The lists and email for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://chambana.net">chambana.net</a> are on a server in
DC, running debian inside a linux container. We've discussed
migrating from Mailman to Sympa <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sympa.org/">http://www.sympa.org/</a> to get
better features and integration with our backend OpenLDAP.<br>
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If you both haven't already, create an account here: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://accounts.chambana.net/">http://accounts.chambana.net/</a>
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We'll also eventually need to have you add your public ssh key to
your profile as we get things set up.<br>
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Chris<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Stuart
Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Yep - that makes sense. I'm just writing as a frustrated
list-admin, without the power to give the thing a kick (i.e. I
can't test what's suggested below), who sometimes finds
important messages held for moderation which I can't pass
through to my e-mail lists because the whole web server has
gone unresponsive.<br>
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The answer so far has been to ask Chris/Josh to kick the web
server, and they've been very good about doing it, but we
can't expect them to be on call around the clock. If any
useful info (ps alx, netstat -nt, tail
/var/log/httpd/access_log, whatever) can be gathered
automatically when the server gets stuck that would help
diagnose this ongoing problem, it would be easy enough to
gather it too.
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On 7/2/12 6:12 PM, Daniel Lewart wrote:<br>
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Stuart, et al,<br>
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On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stuart Levy <<a
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The web server for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.chambana.net/" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/</a>
is wedged again. This is<br>
happening several nights a week - is the manual remedy
just to do something<br>
simple, like "apachectl restart" ?? If so, could
periodic restarting be<br>
stuffed in a cron job?<br>
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One way to do it: use wget to probe the server, and
only restart if it's not<br>
answering<br>
(exit status 4 => network error, in wget 1.12 or
later):<br>
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wget --timeout=15 --tries=3 -O /dev/null --quiet<br>
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if [ $? = 4 ]; then<br>
apachectl restart ; # or whatever<br>
fi<br>
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First I think it is important to understand why it is
hanging.<br>
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Then, if your cron job is used, it should send email and
perhaps log.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Dan<br>
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