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At 12:40 PM -0600 12/21/00, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:
Re: QDNS still crashing
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Time: 10:56:43 am
>Men & Mice Support said:
>
> >At 12:15 PM -0600 12/21/00, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:
> >>Peter Lalor said:
> >>
> >>
> >> >I'd strongly suggest running Tenon's autologging MacsBug (on any
> >> >server), so that crashes will get automatically logged and the
> >> >machine restarted without external intervention. That way you can
> >> >usually get a log to pass on, which is crucial for helping the vendor
> >> >to help you.
> >> >
> >> >ftp://ftp.tenon.com/pub/Mac_Utilities/
> >> >
> >>We shall give this a try... I assume all we need do is drop the
> >>MacsBug(renamed) file in the system folder and reboot as the instructions
> >>say? I never use MacsBugs as it does not restart the box, but if Tenons
> >>app does this, great!
> >
> >Tenon's version is just MacsBug with a scripted set of commands built
> >in. It does indeed work - it issues stdlog and rb commands
> >automatically. I don't believe it's the current version of MacsBug,
> >though.
>
>Ok.. I have it installed none the less. I just need to make sure the box
>comes up after it drops to MacBugs, and this looks like the way to go.
>The thing is though, if QDNS quits with a Type 1 error, or just keeps
>running, though it chokes and is "deaf" so to speak, whos to say that it
>will drop into MacBugs anyway?
If it quits with a Type 1 error, MacsBug should be invoked, at which
point you'll get an automated log and reboot.
If the server goes deaf but no error is detected by the system, then
no problem will be detected by anything running on the machine
itself. Thus you'll still need an external monitoring system. Just
make sure your external monitor doesn't cycle the power whenever it
detects a downed server - make it wait a few minutes and check again,
since otherwise, it could interrupt the boot cycle after MacsBug does
its thing.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
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