Bradley, I agree, thanks for this. A hard rebooted box failed to start mongrel up -- and this should help out quite nicely.
Thank you. Now I owe you like 28 beers. On 1/26/07, Jason Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Bradley Taylor wrote: > > > Hey y'all: > > > > I've added some new stuff to mongrel_cluster. Give it try and let me > > know if it works for you. > > > > * Added '--clean' to cluster::start to force removal of the pidfile > > before trying to start the cluster member. This is useful for > > recovering > > from unexpected process death. > > Oh this is absolutely fantastic. It actually turns out to be exactly > what I needed today. We can't go 24 hours without ferret segfaulting > mongrel on the most completely random searches ever - and the change > to mongrel 1.0.1 from 0.3.13.4 seems to leave the pids laying around > more. > > The --clean seems to be working great in my monit-initiated restarts > (in production mind you :-) ) and now I can happily ignore trying to > find the segfault needle in the ferret haystack again(*) > > Thanks Bradley! > Jason > > (* yes I know it's completely lazy to ignore this. But a) laziness > is a require virtue of systems management and b) trying to find a > random segfault in thousands of lines of C code is no longer fun to > me ;-) ) > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jason Young -- Systems Manager, eXtension > http://about.extension.org/wiki/Jason_Young > ______________________________________ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Charles Brian Quinn self-promotion: www.seebq.com highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com main: 678.389.9462 fax: 678.826.0969 Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch Intensive Ruby on Rails Training: http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/ruby.shtml _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users