Re: Kannel quits without reporting fatal error

On Dienstag, Juli 8, 2003, at 09:00  Uhr, Stipe Tolj wrote:

> Alan McNatty wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone think of a reason why Kannel might give up on a bad
>> connection after a time (is there something in io_thread in smpp 
>> module
>> that might cause a shutdown without reporting - I can only see, if 
>> fail
>> continue, etc - all looks good).
>
> it may be a memory exhausture. Either bearerbox (by looping in the
> re-connection state) or other processes have been consuming to much
> memory and the OS would deside on which process to drop silently. Just
> an idea.
>
>> Alternatively can anyone suggest position of addition debug printouts 
>> or
>> some external monitoring of processors/threads that I can do that 
>> might
>> help find the problem. The obvious thing to do is setup test 
>> connection
>> and simply drop the interface to SMSC and leave running trying to
>> connect - just wondering about supplementary logging that might help.
>
> We have a so called 'safe_wrapper' bash script arround the bearerbox
> that acts mainly the same was as 'safe_mysqld' for mysqld. Whenever
> bearerbox fails by crashing, the script would create a failure log
> directory <timestamp> and 'tail -2000' all logs to that failure log
> directory, so admins can at least try to see what has happened.
>

ehmm.. why you use a bash script for that? Kannel has a nice built in 
feature called

	run_kannel_box

which does exactly that.


Andreas Fink
Global Networks Switzerland AG

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