Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems Workaround
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texte = We've actually given up trying to find it, even though it occurs every 72 hours, and have moved on to recoding sites in other languages, as they are renewed. We are down to a handful of sites anyway. Your script will not work on 10.4.10 or newer(I think), using cronnix, as cron has been eliminated, and replaced with launchd . The script we use is slightly different, and a little more graceful, but amounts to the same thing in the end. It gets launched at a predetermined slow time on our networks everyday, and the total down time is 6 seconds. Here is a copy of our script, if you use it save it out as whatever.sh making sure it has proper permissions: -------------------------------- #!/bin/sh echo "Stopping service" /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine/WebCatalogCtl stop sleep 5 echo "Starting service" /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine/WebCatalogCtl start exit 0 ------------------------------ If your not familiar with launchd, you can use a free little app called Lingon to set it up. Hope this helps someone out. Rob On 16-May-08, at 4:48 PM, Colin Sidwell wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone still having this problem, we have prevented the problem with > the following- > > Save this as quitwebdna.pl in somewhere such as > > /library/tenon/webserver > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > print "content-type: text/html \n\n"; > > print "hello world"; > > system("killall -9 WebCatalog"); > > Use Cronnix or similar to add a new cron job for the root user that > executes every 24 hours. > > the 2nd and 3rd lines in the script were used when we tested it in a > web site folder (it worked) but to do this you will need to have it > in a cgi-bin and change the privileges. > > It's working for us! > > Regards, > > Colin > > Stuart Tremain wrote: >> The server is still there >> http://license.smithmicro.com/ >> But maybe not responding as required >> If you were to alter your host file you would be able to test the >> theory and maybe fix the problem >> Regards >> Stuart Tremain >> IDFK Web Developments >> AUSTRALIA >> webdna@idfk.com.au >> On 30/04/2008, at 1:19 AM, Colin Sidwell wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can confirm that if you restart the server before your approx 74 >>> hour limit is up, you get another 74 hours before it goes again. >>> >>> My money's on Smith Micro turning off the 'phone home' server, as >>> this problem is affecting all versions of WebDNA irrespective of >>> Apache version or platform. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Colin >>> >>> >>> Vijay-Kumar Solanki wrote: >>>> this sounds like something we might need to do; however, i have >>>> noticed that when we run into the issue, we just need to kill the >>>> webcatalog process ( OS X ), and the other process will restart >>>> it... so i wonder if we just need to do that once every day in >>>> the am... >>>> On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: >>>>> i know it's old fashioned, but i have a script that reboots my >>>>> severs every day at 5:15AM EST. Nice and safe, never a problem. >>>>> Never, and i mean not once have I had a customer complain. >>>>> (seems they are busy sleeping, hmm, well timed on my part ) >>>>> Problem solved :) >>>>> >>>>> BBB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 28, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Karl Schroll wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Besides discussing legal remedies off this list, has anyone >>>>>> come up with a way to fix these every 72-hour or so hiccups? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>>> the mailing list
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We've actually given up trying to find it, even though it occurs every 72 hours, and have moved on to recoding sites in other languages, as they are renewed. We are down to a handful of sites anyway. Your script will not work on 10.4.10 or newer(I think), using cronnix, as cron has been eliminated, and replaced with launchd . The script we use is slightly different, and a little more graceful, but amounts to the same thing in the end. It gets launched at a predetermined slow time on our networks everyday, and the total down time is 6 seconds. Here is a copy of our script, if you use it save it out as whatever.sh making sure it has proper permissions: -------------------------------- #!/bin/sh echo "Stopping service" /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine/WebCatalogCtl stop sleep 5 echo "Starting service" /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine/WebCatalogCtl start exit 0 ------------------------------ If your not familiar with launchd, you can use a free little app called Lingon to set it up. Hope this helps someone out. Rob On 16-May-08, at 4:48 PM, Colin Sidwell wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone still having this problem, we have prevented the problem with > the following- > > Save this as quitwebdna.pl in somewhere such as > > /library/tenon/webserver > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > print "content-type: text/html \n\n"; > > print "hello world"; > > system("killall -9 WebCatalog"); > > Use Cronnix or similar to add a new cron job for the root user that > executes every 24 hours. > > the 2nd and 3rd lines in the script were used when we tested it in a > web site folder (it worked) but to do this you will need to have it > in a cgi-bin and change the privileges. > > It's working for us! > > Regards, > > Colin > > Stuart Tremain wrote: >> The server is still there >> http://license.smithmicro.com/ >> But maybe not responding as required >> If you were to alter your host file you would be able to test the >> theory and maybe fix the problem >> Regards >> Stuart Tremain >> IDFK Web Developments >> AUSTRALIA >> webdna@idfk.com.au >> On 30/04/2008, at 1:19 AM, Colin Sidwell wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can confirm that if you restart the server before your approx 74 >>> hour limit is up, you get another 74 hours before it goes again. >>> >>> My money's on Smith Micro turning off the 'phone home' server, as >>> this problem is affecting all versions of WebDNA irrespective of >>> Apache version or platform. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Colin >>> >>> >>> Vijay-Kumar Solanki wrote: >>>> this sounds like something we might need to do; however, i have >>>> noticed that when we run into the issue, we just need to kill the >>>> webcatalog process ( OS X ), and the other process will restart >>>> it... so i wonder if we just need to do that once every day in >>>> the am... >>>> On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: >>>>> i know it's old fashioned, but i have a script that reboots my >>>>> severs every day at 5:15AM EST. Nice and safe, never a problem. >>>>> Never, and i mean not once have I had a customer complain. >>>>> (seems they are busy sleeping, hmm, well timed on my part ) >>>>> Problem solved :) >>>>> >>>>> BBB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 28, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Karl Schroll wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Besides discussing legal remedies off this list, has anyone >>>>>> come up with a way to fix these every 72-hour or so hiccups? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>>> the mailing list . >>>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>> > >>>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>> the mailing list . >>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>> > >>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> > >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . 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