[bf1942] What's happening DICE?

[Rick Thompson]

The BBO daemon does restart a gameserver automatically on a crash but it is 
not hard to determine the difference between a map restart and a crash 
since a crash would kick everyone playing.

In addition to mrtg, logwatch and a couple other tools we have enough idle 
machines on the lan here to keep a live bbo mon on all bf servers and a 
halfd mon going on hl servers. We also have terms going 24/7 running the 
top util on all of our boxes so we can keep an eye on processes (if the pid 
changes, the game has crashed) and then there is of course the gameserver, 
bbo and halfd logs that are written when a game crashes. Halfd emails us if 
an HL server crashes, this would be a convenient switch for bbo btw.

Rick

At 08:35 AM 4/23/2004 +0100, you wrote:

>Its not about anyone's word for it tbh as if u don't run multiple
>rounds it could appear like a map restart if you restart the
>server instantly on quit so would still be interested on how
>you monitor crashes :)
>
>     Steve / K
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rick Thompson" <fortweb at fortweb.com>
>To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:01 AM
>Subject: Re: [bf1942] What's happening DICE?
>
>
> > You don't have to take my word for it, go ask on the Gamers Block DC
> > server. That is probably the busiest game we run, it's full almost 24/7 
> and
> > we have that server because their last host had the problem you speak of.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > At 01:35 AM 4/23/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > >Would be interested to know how you monitor for crashes
> > >as I've seen people claim this before and it was due to
> > >the fact they where missing them not that they weren't
> > >happening.
> > >
> > >     Steve / K
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Rick Thompson" <fortweb at fortweb.com>
> > >To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> > >Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:38 AM
> > >Subject: Re: [bf1942] What's happening DICE?
> > >
> > >
> > > > There are others that suffer the same problem, I see it in the forums
> > > > often. However, our servers under RH9, RH7.3 and RHe have never 
> done it.
> > > > All 4 of our current BF servers have been running without a crash 
> since
> > > the
> > > > 1.6 upgrade... that's about 3 months now isn't it? Nothing new with 1.6
> > > > really, they have always been that stable.
> > >
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