[UCIMC-Tech] http://lists.chambana.net wedged again...

[Daniel Lewart]

Stuart, et al,

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stuart Levy <salevy at illinois.edu> wrote:

> The web server for http://lists.chambana.net/ is wedged again.  This is
> happening several nights a week - is the manual remedy just to do something
> simple, like "apachectl restart" ??   If so, could periodic restarting be
> stuffed in a cron job?
>
> One way to do it: use wget to probe the server, and only restart if it's not
> answering
> (exit status 4 => network error, in wget 1.12 or later):
>
>    wget --timeout=15 --tries=3 -O /dev/null  --quiet
> http://lists.chambana.net/nonesuch
>    if [ $? = 4 ]; then
>         apachectl restart ; # or whatever
>    fi

First I think it is important to understand why it is hanging.

Then, if your cron job is used, it should send email and perhaps log.

Thanks!
Dan