ppstats suddenly stopped working!

[Russ]

I've had it running for a couple days, working perfectly and suddenly at the changover from the 17th to the 18th, it's now all zeros and has stopped updating. I didn't change a thing.

I've run the script multiple times with -debug, and it's not showing any errors at all.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Russ, NCNE

 

[DanC]

Try NT? - just a suggestion...

 

[Dougal]

Hi Russ,

You're really fighting this pProxy and Stats setup aren't you?

So, you have no error messages, even when you run with -debug. That's a good one. I take it the pProxy is still writing out the log files correctly?

 

[Russ]

Two,

NT is for wussies.

Dougal,

Weirdness. Came in this morning and it's working fine. Maybe it takes a while when changing over to a new day?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Russ]

PS: I don't know if you caught it in the other thread, but I grabbed Webmin. Fabulous little proggie. Thanks.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Postman]

NT is a blessing for the people of earth. Such job opportunities and wealth given just because one knows the difference between share permissions and NTFS permissions .. ok plus maybe few other things too

Postman the happy postal NT admin.

 

[Russ]

Okay, I figured out the problem with the stats update and applied a temporary solution. It occured to me that it might be related to time somehow, so I checked the pproxy log files. Sure enough, they were reading 7 hours earlier than actual (Pacific). Checking xclock, I verified that the box (Linux) was giving the time wrong.

So, ppstats, while changing over days correctly at 23:59 UTC and zeroing out the totals, was reading the local time for daily update purposes, and not updating till the local clock said 23:59.

Temporarily, I've solved the problem by setting the BIOS forward 7 hours, now Linux displays the correct time, and ppstats updates as it should. It'll be interesting, though, to see if it rolls over correctly at 23:59 UTC tommorow.

When I did the install, I set it to Pacific, and at bootup it reads Pacific, so I'm at a loss as to why it's seven hours off.

Any of you Linux guru's have a clue? Thanks.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Dougal]

Hi Russ,

Glad you got it sorted. Webmin is really cool isn't it. I use it all the time on the Linux box I run in the lab here. It runs DNS, mail, and a few other bits and bobs for the lab and it's so easy to set things up for Linux newbies like me.