RE: Possible Hung Server?

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

You should check your products.asc file to make sure it is exactly
correct. I believe Minivend won't start if databases are missing. Which
would explain the error (no daemon running).

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Heritage House
> '76, Inc.
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:19 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Possible Hung Server?
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Heritage House '76,
> Inc." <mike@cybertrails.com>     ******
>
> 6/21/99
>
> Up until a couple days ago, my Minivend 2.03 catalog was
> running fine.  I FTP'd
> a new products.asc and pricing.asc out to it.  It still worked
> fine until I
> FTP'd products.asc one more time.  It then gave the not so
> uncommon message:
>
> We're sorry, the MiniVend server is unavailable...
> We are out of service or may be experiencing high system
> demand, please try
> again soon.
>
> The web provider says that it's not an overloaded server.
>
> I tried to reset the program, which I've done dozens of times,
> but got a bit of
> a confusing message.  (resetting does not help at all)
>
> My commands:
>
> cd /usr/www/users/hhouse76/cgi-bin/minivend/bin
> ./restart
>
> Server's message:
>
> We couldn't immediately terminate the MiniVend server running
> on PID 11518. The server is probably just waiting for a request,
> but it is conceivable it was stopped by an error.
>
> If your system has SYSV signals (like IRIX and Solaris), it
> may be stopped already.  Wait at least 60 seconds (or make
> a request to the catalog) and try this from the command line:
>
>         kill 11518
>
> It should complain about "no such process", which means the
> server has stopped normally. If it does not (and you have
> waited for the housekeeping timer to elapse) then it is hung.
> Do:
>
>         kill -9 11518
>         rm -f minivend.pid
>
> Configuring catalog hh76...
> done.
> The MiniVend server is already running (process id 11518)
> hhouse76@omicron%
>
>
> When I follow the first instruction, to "kill 11518" or "kill
> -9 11518", I do
> get the message that there is "no such process" which means it
> should have shut
> the program down normally.  But then I get the message "The
> MiniVend server is
> already running (process id 11518)"  which I don't believe I've
> seen before
> when
> I reset the program.  My question is, is there any way for me
> to know if my
> program is hung and somehow not possible to reset.  Or am I
> barking up the
> wrong tree?
>
> The web provider only answers mail every other day or so, and
> I've got to get
> this catalog back on line!
>
> Minivend 2.03, running on Pair networks, Apache UNIX
>
> Thanks!  Mike Monahan
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