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

[J.Kahn Koontz]

I'm also willing to also volunteer time to admin and assist with with
your new incoming network feed. I can also probably score some
additional servers if you want more horsepower local.

Let me know if I can be of assistance.

Thanks,
-jk

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The lists and email for chambana.net are on a server in DC, running debian
> inside a linux container. We've discussed migrating from Mailman to Sympa
> http://www.sympa.org/ to get better features and integration with our
> backend OpenLDAP.
>
> If you both haven't already, create an account here:
> http://accounts.chambana.net/
> We'll also eventually need to have you add your public ssh key to your
> profile as we get things set up.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Stuart Levy <salevy at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/2/12 6:12 PM, Daniel Lewart wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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