[AG-TECH] Beacons: restart needed

[Robert Olson]

Make sure you don't have two beacons running now. That's the failure mode 
we've seen.

--bob

At 08:51 AM 4/11/2001 -0600, Gary Orser wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Hmm,  restart just worked for me?
>
>Cheers, Gary
>------------------------------------------------------
>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
> >