Re: [misterhouse-users] Daily Strips in 2.95

[Pete F. <pj...@ca...>]

Seems that I used 5 Am because I figured that the other updatesrunning
sround then may cause some high traffic, that and I actually was awake a
couple times to 'not' see the strips update. further investigation
showed that sometimes the strips aren't ready at 4 ,,,,

All I now is since I shifted the update it's been working consistantly
-Pete

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 15:14, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> Pete, 
> 
> Are you saying that running it at 5:00 am works better than at 4:00 am?
> 
> I'm still not getting updates unless I do them manually.  I get entries
> in the log every morning like:
> 10/09/04 04:00:00 AM Running mh -run dailystrips
> --defs ./../web/comics/dailystrips/strips.def --local
> --basedir ./../web/comics --save --nostale dilbert doonesbury luann
> foxtrot userfriendly safehavn calvinandhobbe
> 10/09/04 04:00:00 AM Running: Update the daily comic strips
> 
> But they don't get updated.
> 
> I don't think that it's a permissions issue. I've made the
> the /usr/local/mh/web/comic and everything below writeable the owner and
> the misterhouse group.  I just checked and the mh daemon IS running as
> the user I set up for it, which also owns all those files.
> 
> Any ideas on how to debug this?
> 
> I've played 
> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 00:00 -0400, Pete Flaherty wrote:
> > I had a similar problem a while back, and have since updated my
> > recurring 'alarm clock' to run it at 5am
> > the command for alarm function is: 
> >    run_voice_cmd 'Update the daily comic strips'
> > 
> > Just set the time and recurrance from the web interface
> > 
> > -Pete
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 16:29, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 13:06 -0500, Scott wrote:
> > > > Mine works fine.
> > > > 
> > > > And for me, Dailystrips.pl is MUCH more important than Alarmclock.pl.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I've been having problems after the update as well. I'm running on
> > > RHLinux 9.
> > > 
> > > The log shows update and clean the daily strips running every morning at
> > > 4:00 am, but nothing seems to get actually updated.
> > > 
> > > I can go to the Misterhouse bin directory as the same user which is
> > > running MH as a service, and do a ./mh -run dailystrips
> > > --defs ./../web/comics/dailystrips/strips.def --local
> > > --basedir ./../web/comics --save  --nostale comic1 .. comicn
> > > 
> > > and things run okay except for a complaint that there's no previous day
> > > to hook up to, since the past strip which was loaded was several days
> > > back.
> > > 
> > > I thought that the problem at first was that upgrading changed ownership
> > > of the files, and I had to fix that to get the above manual command to
> > > work. But I just went and checked today and the comics hadn't been
> > > updated since 27 September.  I've now manually gotten the strips between
> > > then and now, and I've reset the permissions to let user and the
> > > misterhouse group write everything in the web/comics directory and
> > > below.  I guess I won't know until tomorrow if this fixed the scheduled
> > > update.
> > > 
> > > I haven't been able to figure out how to get debugging info on how it's
> > > failing, the log just says it's running and it seems to be failing
> > > silently.
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-Pete
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