Re: Eskimo 5-10-minute outage 10/18 9pm PST

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Eric T. Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> The outage of the shell server (and everything else that depends
> on it) at about 9pm tonight was due to my own error.  One of the
> web servers was coming up with NFS errors from eskimo (the shell
> server, and the location of the user directories among others). 
> Robert rebooted the machine seeing strange file system entries,
> and after a minute or so the server started doing the same thing
> again.  I rebooted it again but still the errors were showing on
> the screen. 
> 
> I killed the nfsd processes on eskimo and restarted them -- or so
> I thought, since the other console windows only showed errors
> during the couple seconds that elapsed between commands.  However,
> nfs is kernel-based on that machine, and it required a boot of
> eskimo to restart it.  Strong lesson learned there, of course... 
> 
> Luckily, after this, the original www console errors that
> prompted the action in the first place also stopped.  Sorry for
> the downtime folks.
> 
> ~ Eric

     Actually, Eskimo probably would have had to be rebooted even if you had
not killed the nfs daemons.