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["Eric Sandquist" <address@concealed>]

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Subject: Re: [sympa-users] RE:processes failing for no reason...
From:    "Eric Sandquist" <address@concealed>
Date:    Wed, December 25, 2002 9:08 am
To:      address@concealed
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Well, this is not the only place it is dieing... it seems to be random
from the log reports... no real pattern is forming...  Is it possible that
the NOC where I lease my dedicated server has a process that killes "
undesirables"  and not leave a log entry that it was done?  I know if I
start an ircd that it gets killed in under 60 seconds...  but this dieing
happens between 10 minutes and an hour normally...  This was happening
when there were no users, and when there are users, so there really is no
relationship to a specific user...

One user suggested I use another application to moniter a detached
terminal session and log all stdout.. I will try to implement that today
and try running sympa.pl attached to the terminal...

Eric





Eric Sandquist said:

> Well...  Here is the output surrounding the area where sympa.pl and the
3 other processes died....
>
> Dec 24 23:12:07 josiah sympa[2682]: SendDigest()
> Dec 24 23:13:07 josiah last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 24 23:14:37 josiah last message repeated 3 times
> Dec 24 23:15:37 josiah last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 24 23:15:52 josiah sympa[2682]: ProcessExpire()
> Dec 24 23:16:07 josiah sympa[2682]: SendDigest()
> Dec 24 23:17:07 josiah last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 24 23:18:08 josiah last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 24 23:19:08 josiah last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 24 23:19:33 josiah sympa[2682]:
CleanSpool(/www/sympa/spool/msg/bad,1) Dec 24 23:19:33 josiah
sympa[2682]:
> CleanSpool(/www/sympa/spool/moderation,10)
> Dec 24 23:19:33 josiah sympa[2682]: CleanSpool(/www/sympa/spool/auth,3)
Dec 24 23:19:38 josiah sympa[2682]: SendDigest()
> Dec 24 23:20:08 josiah sympa[2682]: SendDigest()
> Dec 24 23:20:08 josiah sympa[2682]: ProcessExpire()
> Dec 24 23:20:38 josiah sympa[2682]: SendDigest()
> Dec 24 23:20:58 josiah wwsympa[3407]: [client 64.202.237.108]
do_lists(,) Dec 24 23:21:02 josiah wwsympa[5094]: WWSympa started
> Dec 24 23:21:02 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file fr.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:02 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file us.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file es.cat version
3.3.3
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file de.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file it.cat version
2.5.4
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file cn.cat version
2.8.1
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file tw.cat version
2.5
> Dec 24 23:21:03 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file fi.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file pl.cat version
2.8.1
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file cz.cat version
3.1b.12
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file hu.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file ro.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file et.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:04 josiah wwsympa[5094]: Loading locale file nl.cat version
3.3a
> Dec 24 23:21:07 josiah wwsympa[3407]: [client 64.202.237.108] [list
b-aramaic] d_access_control
> Dec 24 23:21:07 josiah wwsympa[3407]: [client 64.202.237.108] [list
b-aramaic] do_info
> Dec 24 23:21:25 josiah wwsympa[5094]: [client 64.202.237.108] [list
b-aramaic] d_access_control
> Dec 24 23:21:25 josiah wwsympa[5094]: [client 64.202.237.108] [list
b-aramaic] do_arc(, )
>
>
> I have seen this pattern a few times, the ip changes with client, but
the process stop seems to coincide with the creation of a new wwsympa
process??
>
> Any ideas?  After that last sympa entry there are no more in the log (
unless I restart again...)
>
> This was using the first method that was suggested for testing..  I had
actually tried the second method first, but appearantly it failed after
running for over 6hrs.... I was on my way home when it stopped, so I
haven't had a chance to view the data on that telnet session - which I
assume has since disconnected.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas??
>
> Eric
>