Re: Re: Restarting OS/2
 
>  MG> Since I know you are well versed in the BBS Biz you know
>  MG> that some BBS software goes brain dead and refuses to answer
>  MG> the phone (for one reason or another) but still act as
>  MG> though they are working but can not talk to the modem any
> You have separate problems here.  By the way, I have been running a native OS
> Fidonet BBS system under Binkley and Maximus for a long time, and I have neve
> yet had a hang condition arise of the kind you describe.
> 1.  How to detect a BBS hang.
> This is easy to do only if you are guaranteed some kind of heartbeat behavior
> from the BBS program.  In many cases, such behavior is probably going to be
> 2. What do to upon detecting a BBS hang.
> Under no circumstances is it reasonable to reboot the whole system.  If you
> don't have the hung process killed from within the VDM by a VDD, then it coul
> be killed externally by some sort of monitor process which would be a native
> OS/2 application.  Once the process has been killed, it is relatively easy to

 I am fearing that I am again straying off topic but if I could convince
someone to program this type of utility it would be worth it.
I have tried and failed at it.....

I have ran only a couple of OS/2 native BBS packages but the easiest one to
get this type of hang with is VBBS (I have been testing to see if I could
write a utility to kill the BBS and restart it).

But I am again way over my head here so let me say this in closing this
thread.....
There is a use for a utility program that would do like phonev4 or watchkat
does for DOS but on the process level instead of system level. I have tried
to program it but I am too new at C++ to make it work and when I saw
this thread I wanted to make it known that there is a need.
Michael Gleason 1:135/813 FidoNet

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