[AG-TECH] Beacons: restart needed

[Gary Orser]

Bob,

Hmm,  restart just worked for me?

Cheers, Gary
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Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser at nervana.montana.edu 
Montana State University
Center for Computational Biology
1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Robert Olson wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> If you've looked at the beacon matrix page lately, you'll notice that all 
> is not right there. Something's caused most beacons to stop sending reports 
> to the beacon server. Though we don't yet know the cause, we do know that a 
> restart of your beacon will be necessary for it to show up again on the matrix.
> 
> Please do so at your earliest convenience. If you're running a beacon on an 
> AG linux box, you can restart by either simply rebooting the machine 
> running the beacon, or by running the following as root:
> 
> 	kill `ps axuw | grep 'java Beacon' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/nlanr-beacon start
> 
> Note there's a bug in the init.d script such that a restart via the script 
> does *not* work. (If someone wants to fix that... :-)
> 
> thanks,
> --bob
>