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

[Stuart Levy]

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.

On 7/2/12 8:55 PM, Chris Ritzo 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 <http://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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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