Re: [webmin-l] Usermin crashing

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 7/Jun/2006 12:40 linux wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't find anything in the archives, though I may have used the wrong
> terms.
> 
> We have been running webmin and usermin for a couple years without any
> problems until just recently.  This week I've received calls about usermin
> being down, and the only way I've been able to start it up again is to
> restart the server.
> 
> Does usermin or webmin have a log file, or can I turn on logging for them?
> 
> I did turn on the e-mail notification for services changing states, and
> that
> works, I received an e-mail earlier about usermin being down.
> 
> For restart usermin I've tried:
> Clicking start from the webmin service monitor, also from the usermin
> configuration page.
> /etc/init.d/usermin restart (and start)
> /etc/usermin/start
> And /usr/libexec/usermin/miniserv.pl /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf  (what
> /etc/usermin/start does)
> 
> None of them result in usermin running, nor do they report errors (except
> the ones that try to stop usermin, they error because it isn't running
> to be
> stopped)

When Usermin is down like this, is there still a miniserv.pl process running
for it? The problem may be that it is running but un-responsive somehow..

If so, you could try the command :

/etc/usermin/stop ; /etc/usermin/start

to restart it.

 - Jamie