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Re: dcm failure to update mailhub service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sat Apr 8 16:48:37 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:16:57 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 16:48:33 -0400
> Short story is that the update_server on PCA was nowhere to
> be seen. I restarted it by hand.
>
> Shouldn't this have set the error bit somewhere?
This sort of problem has never set the "host needs to be reset" error.
I assume the theory is that if the update_server process magically
reappears (of if the machine was off the net and comes back) there is
no harm in running the DCM. However, if the DCM actually connected to
the machine and started doing somethign before failing, you probably
want human intervention before trying again. I think this is probably
the correct behavior, but you're welcome to try and convince me that
there's a better alternative.
Jonathon
