Re: [mv] The Mysterious (Periodic) Disappearance of Minivend...

["kyle@invisio.com" <kyle@invisio.com>]

What is the most in depth debug level for starting minivend
with -D option?

The reason is I started minivend like:

minivend -D -serve >> logall.txt &

And I want to be sure to grab everything possible from debug
to see if I can pinpoint exactly where minivend is dying.

I do have checkstat.sh running every 5 minutes and it does work,
but I really want to find out why it is dying in the first place because
I don't want it to die in the middle of a real time credit card purchase
(IE customers card gets charged, but system crashes, so no record
made in minivend)

I am willing to pay, if someone is familiar with this type of problem,
please send an email to me kyle@invisio.com with a quote to look
into it.

(Perl 5.005_03, Apache 1.3.9, FreeBSD3.2 and Minivend 3.12)

Thanks,
Kyle Cook (KC)



At 11:07 AM 10/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "kyle@invisio.com" 
><kyle@invisio.com>     ******
>
>March,
>
>I am also having the exact same problem with a new install.
>
>I have minivend installed on one system and it has run for 6 months
>with multiple catalogs without ever dying on its own 
>(not including the occasional server reboot):
>Perl 5.005_02, Apache 1.3.3, FreeBSD2.2.8 and Minivend 3.12
>
>
>The new server is set up as follows:
>Perl 5.005_03, Apache 1.3.9, FreeBSD3.2 and Minivend 3.12
>with only 1 catalog (although it is a busy one)
>and it dies randomly with no errors anywhere.
>
>There are no "watchdogs" killing it, as I own both servers and have root
>access.
>Can anyone shed some light?
>
>Kyle Cook (KC)
>
>At 07:16 PM 10/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>******    message to minivend-users from March Rosenbluth <march@uia.net>    
>> ******
>>
>>
>>Greetings!
>>	
>>	I've encountered a strange problem in my use of Minivend.  Periodically -- 
>>ranging from an hour to several days -- Minivend just disappears.  A 
>>restart shows it unable to find a running instance, giving the error that 
>>tells you to try killing it to see if it stopped normally.  None of the 
>>error logs show any comment at all -- the catalog specific one has two 
>>errors in it which repeat over and over but happen frequently without 
>>causing the problem and show no sign of being related.  Just in case, they 
>>are as follows:
>>
>>193.149.76.206 bI3FeJSQ:193.149.76.206 - [21/October/1999:13:45:16 -0700] 
>>simple /cgi-bin/simple/process Custom shipping field 'weight' doesn't 
>>exist. Returning 0
>>150.176.206.67 xujbI3Fe:150.176.206.67 - [21/October/1999:13:46:24 -0700] 
>>simple /cgi-bin/simple/process Bad search column 'code'
>>
>>The minivend error log doesn't show a thing -- it shows the catalog being 
>>started up, and then nothing until it's started again.  The apache error 
>>log is currently completely blank.
>>
>>	We are using Perl 5.005, Apache 1.34, BSDI 4.01, and Minivend 3.14-3, and 
>>are running only one catalog, which is based on the simple catalog.  I saw 
>>in the archives that there was apparently a similar problem with earlier 
>>versions of Minivend and BDSI together, but I couldn't find any solutions. 
>> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks very much!
>>	
>>	-- March
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