[FADCA] Re: FPACs may need to be totally rebooted

[C Schuman]

bud Thompson wrote:
> Deltona Thursday Nov 3 0640E
>  
> HI, Charlie-
>  
> From time to time there is a lot of apparent repetitive activity 
> between K4GBB-8 and N4PLZ-8 on port 9.  Maybe it is okay - seems to 
> have calmed down.
>  
> I think the nodes list on Orlando is growing again - and there are 
> some of the old ones there that I can't get to.
>  
> With the recent changes it appears that the entire machine (or some 
> sub part outta my pay grade) may need to be rebooted in order for 
> fpacnode to work.  I connected to KP4DJT-8 from Orlando and the Nodes 
> command results in and unknown command response.
> This was the case with Orlando, DeLand, and Melbourne.  This morning I 
> Putty into Melbourne and the N, WP, and Telpac commands would not work 
> - large timeout to get back to node prompt.  I did a shutdown -r now 
> and after the machine came back up the fpacnode worked as advertised - 
> Except the Telpac node is giving an error message - I doubt related to 
> the recent changes.  Here is what I get:
>  
> *** Connected
>  
> Winlink 2000 Telnet Logon OK
> Testing RMS Lite Telnet Server...Please report problems to 
> rmuething at cfl.rr.com <mailto:rmuething at cfl.rr.com>
>  
> Keyboard connections: Type I for info, H for Help
>  
>
> [WL2K-0.5.7-B2FIHM$]
> Connected to CMS  >
> *** [144] Telpac server call not recognized
> INFO: Connection closed by PMBO
>  
> *** 0000 - Remote Station cleared connection
>  
> * * *
> That might be related to the fact I've not yet REGISTERED W4MLB-10 
> Telpac node at winlink.org. - I'll do that today.
>  
> Now in the case of DeLand - it likely needs to be rebooted as well, 
> but I'll leave that up to N3PPC to do locally.  There the Telpac 
> command takes a long time to respond but does work.
>  
> 73,
>  
> bud N0IA
> 386 574 4124
> 386 956 0386 Sprint Cell
>  
For those who may Not have seen Bernard's Message about Cleaning up the 
WP DB...
He suggested that the WP server be shutdown til Sunday. This will give 
Everyone a chance to clean up their local WP dB.

I am about to make the rounds and  killall fpacwpd. If you restart fpac 
between now and Sunday night - issue the comand

killall -KILL fpacwpd
to stop the WP Data base. By Sunday night everyone should have updated and run wpmaint.

During this time the fpac N cmd will NOT work.

<<Charlie>>
   k4gbb