Sounds like a job for a monitor program - when it detects the server down, it sends David's VII an alarm message. Of course, if alarms get David out of meetings, the incentives might now be quite right. :)
By the way, I get a lot of DNS not-founds from palmos.com, in general. So it's hard to separate the downed-news-server from the DNS problems. Alex Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Fedor wrote: > > >Seems like the list has been down for the past few weekends, but then > >comes back around lunch time Monday morning... > > Yes, I was intending to send out an update to the list. My apologies. > > We've been encountering a very unpleasant bug in the list server software, > which has been causing it to hang every day or two. It is relatively > simple to bring it back up again, but right now that's a manual operation > done by yours truly and involves me going to the other building where the > server room is. And thus it only happens when I'm at work and not in > meetings, like the one I have Monday morning at 9am :-( > > Yes, there's an IS department here around the clock, but they don't provide > support for this software. They just make sure there's power and ethernet, > and that nobody but me can get to the machine, and that I have to > physically go there. (Which is another issue, but still.) > > So we're working on it, and trying to find the root cause and get it fixed. > It has nothing to do with Ryan moving to another group within Palm, unless > the software is pining away for him. > > (Any system admins want to join us? Great job openings available... ditto > for devsupp engineers, as long as I'm advertising :-) And did I mention > that if you refer someone who joins us, we'll send you a Palm device of > your choice?) > > -David Fedor > Palm Developer Support and part-time technical recruiter -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
