Sounds like a job for a monitor program - when it detects the server
down, it sends David's VII an alarm message. Of course, if alarms get
David out of meetings, the incentives might now be quite right. :)
By the way, I get a lot of DNS not-founds from palmos.com, in general.
So it's hard to separate the downed-news-server from the DNS problems.
Alex Robinson
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David Fedor wrote:
>
> >Seems like the list has been down for the past few weekends, but then
> >comes back around lunch time Monday morning...
>
> Yes, I was intending to send out an update to the list. My apologies.
>
> We've been encountering a very unpleasant bug in the list server software,
> which has been causing it to hang every day or two. It is relatively
> simple to bring it back up again, but right now that's a manual operation
> done by yours truly and involves me going to the other building where the
> server room is. And thus it only happens when I'm at work and not in
> meetings, like the one I have Monday morning at 9am :-(
>
> Yes, there's an IS department here around the clock, but they don't provide
> support for this software. They just make sure there's power and ethernet,
> and that nobody but me can get to the machine, and that I have to
> physically go there. (Which is another issue, but still.)
>
> So we're working on it, and trying to find the root cause and get it fixed.
> It has nothing to do with Ryan moving to another group within Palm, unless
> the software is pining away for him.
>
> (Any system admins want to join us? Great job openings available... ditto
> for devsupp engineers, as long as I'm advertising :-) And did I mention
> that if you refer someone who joins us, we'll send you a Palm device of
> your choice?)
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support and part-time technical recruiter
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