We have unique problem. We live in India where we have power outage for
at least 10-20 mins - once or twice a day. We run a small demo server
where I deploy “in progress” apps for my clients. We have been using and
evangalising RoR since 8-10 months now in our organisation.
I have mongrel configured to serve out the web apps and it dutifully
stops and starts during system shutdown/reboot. The problem is when I
have an unexpected power outage. (I know I should have a UPS/power
backup and I will be getting one soon but the problem still cannot be
ignored and a UPS is at best a temporary solution.)
When power is cut off to the server, the ‘mongrel.xxxport.pid’ files
remain in the respective log directories and prevent the mongrel servers
from starting up. I have to manually delete them and restart the
mongrels. Is there any way I can avoid manual intervention? (I could
write a script to delete the pids and put it in run level 3 but that is
pretty ugly.)
This problem does not exist with any other server -
apache/postfix/subversion… and I do not think it should exist with
mongrel either. Do let me know if I can help. I have done socket
programming in ‘C’ before and have really smart people with ruby
knowledge.
Thanks,
kc