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posted by martyb on Sunday February 14 2021, @04:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the Constants-aren't-and-variables-won't dept.

[2021-02-14 15:53:00 UTC: UPDATE added need to check apache log before doing a slash -restart]

We seem to have experienced some difficulties with the SoylentNews site.

I've noticed that both the number of hits and comments for each story do not seem to be updating.

Corrective measures taken:

  1. "Bounce" the Servers I doubted it would help, but it causes no harm to try it, so why not? And, as expected, it did not help, either.:
    This is my personal "bounce" script:
    cat ~/bin/bounce

    #!/bin/bash
    servers='hydrogen fluorine'
    for server in ${servers} ; do echo Accessing: ${server} &&  rsh ${server} /home/bob/bin/bounce ; done

    Which, in turn, runs the following script on each of the above servers:

    cat /home/bob/bin/bounce

    #!/bin/bash
    sudo /etc/init.d/varnish restart
    sudo -u slash /srv/soylentnews.org/apache/bin/apachectl -k restart

  2. Restart slash For those who are unaware, slash has its own internal implementation of what is, effectively, cron. It periodically fires off tasks that support the site's operations. But, this potentially has side-effects, so first need to check the apache error_log.

    # Go to the appropriate server:
    ssh fluorine
    # Ensure the apache log is not showing issues: tail -f /srv/soylentnews.org/apache/logs/error_log
    # Restart slash:
    sudo /etc/init.d/slash restart
    >> slashd slash has no PID file
    >> Sleeping 10 seconds in a probably futile attempt to be clean: ok.
    >> Starting slashd slash: ok PID = 3274

    NB: this failed to run to a successful conclusion when I originally tried it a few hour ago. I gave it one more try while writing this story... it seemed to run okay this time?!

Things appears to be running okay, now. Please reply in the comments if anything else is amiss. Alternatively, mention it in the #dev channel on IRC (Internet Relay Chat, or send an email to admin (at) soylentnews (dot) org.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday February 14 2021, @08:03PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday February 14 2021, @08:03PM (#1112886)

    Noting somewhere that the servers were bounced *and* that it didn't help is useful, with all the complaints about science not valuing negative results [plos.org]. It's also good practice to actually log it because per Adam Savage (and his ballistics expert, Alex Jason): "The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."

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