FWD: RE: Argus, and moving 'live files'

[Chris Newton]

I'll give lsof a try, next time it occurs (if it does).  It seems to happen 
randomly... and I'm wondering if the higher move rate I am using, would make 
me more likely to see the bug.  I was running fine for 3 days... buy my move 
rate is 10 times higher than yours.  And, prior to that I was running for many 
days before it happened (about 2 weeks), with a prior version.  I'll keep an 
eye on it... and report anything I see.

Chris

>===== Original Message From Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca> =====
>	Hmmm, I've had beta.8 running on my test box on our inbound link and
>cycling every 10 minutes from cron since Mar 2 without seeing such a problem
>(FreeBDS 4.2-RELEASE). I'm just about to change that to beta.10 for test
>purposes. If you have lsof on the system you might run it and see where argus
>thinks it is writing the file (it may be writing somewhere unexpected or to a
>detached inode for some reason).
>
>Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
>Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>
>
>>
>> Bouncing this over, so everyone knows about this possible bug...
>>
>> Carter gave me some suggestions already, and I'll likely implement them
>> tonight.  It may take a couple of days before the problem resurfaces 
though.
>>
>> --------------------------
>>
>>    OK, first thing is to see if it happens in beta.10, as there
>> are some fixes in beta.9 that address output files, and beta.10
>> fixes a specific problem that caused argus to not generate
>> output.  Hard to say that any of this addresses your problem,
>> but gotta start with the latest.
>>
>> Carter
>>
>> Carter Bullard
>> QoSient, LLC
>> 300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
>> New York, New York  10022
>>
>> carter at qosient.com
>> Phone +1 212 588-9133
>> Fax   +1 212 588-9134
>> http://qosient.com
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Chris Newton [mailto:newton at unb.ca]
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:05 PM
>> > To: Carter Bullard
>> > Subject: Argus, and moving 'live files'
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Carter, me again :)
>> >
>> >   I'm having a problem with 2.0.0 beta 8.  I have it running,
>> > daemon mode,
>> > dumping to a file.  I also have a program (script) called
>> > argproc, that every
>> > minute, moves the argus log file to a filename generated from
>> > the current
>> > date/time.  This works well for a couple of days... then,
>> > argus stops writing
>> > to the file.  Ie... there is no file there for my script to
>> > move any more.
>> >
>> >   Killing and restarting the argus server, fixes the problem.
>> >  Per chance, is
>> > there a bug that bungs up the file writing code, if the file
>> > gets move at
>> > 'just the right time'?  This has happened a couple of times now.
>> >
>> >   Hmm, also... argus seems to be still working.. using the
>> > same amount of cpu
>> > as normal... just not writing to the argus output file anymore.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
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>> > Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
>> > Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
>> > newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)
>> >
>> >
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>> Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
>> Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
>> newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)
>>
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Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)