Blew away .../var/varnish/HOSTNAME/ -- broke varnishstat, how to recover?

2008-06-02 Thread Chris Shenton
We're using varnish for a public site, works beautifully and handled getting slashdotted gracefully -- many thanks! We built it with zc.buildout which creates .../parts/varnish/install/ var/varnish/FQDN/... and others. In a recent update, I accidentally blew away the .../var/varnish/FQDN

Re: Blew away .../var/varnish/HOSTNAME/ -- broke varnishstat, how to recover?

2008-06-02 Thread Chris Shenton
On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yes, restarting varnish (completely: ie both manager and child process) should recreate it with no side effects. Varnish doesn't spend long time on startup, so I would just get it done and over with. Just tried it on a QA server and

Re: Blew away .../var/varnish/HOSTNAME/ -- broke varnishstat, how to recover?

2008-06-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Shenton write s: What's the recommended way to re-create this directory? I'm assuming restarting Varnish will re-create it but want to be sure. Yes, restarting varnish (completely: ie both manager and child process) should recreate it with no side effects.

Re: Blew away .../var/varnish/HOSTNAME/ -- broke varnishstat, how to recover?

2008-06-02 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have to fill out pounds of paperwork in order to take any outage on a public server, no matter how small. Is there a way to restart Varnish without any downtime -- to continue accepting but holding connections until