Can anyone tell me what command I need to execute in Telnet if I want to verify everything. Thank you.


Leslie

Hi,

First, cd to your admin directory then type:

./nph-verify.cgi --check_all

and it will go ahead and start checking all links.

Cheers,

Alex

 
When I try to run it from the administration control panel, it runs fine when I check one link at a time. When I try to check all links I get a short series of
and then the process seems to quit.
I don't have a telnet access to my account which makes it very difficult to track what happens. Any idea?

[This message has been edited by sstreams (edited April 21, 2000).]

Probably what happened is after it spawned the processes, your ISP's daemon saw it as a run-away program, and killed it.

On virtual and shared accounts, high-end, cpu-intensive and multi-threaded (real or pseudo) processes are often killed as soon as they start.

Before driving yourself crazy, you might want to ask your ISP if that is the problem. Point them to the script. They can run it, and watch if their daemons kill it. If so, there's probably nothing you can do but switch hosts.

It's been said here time and again, that while many ISP's are now offering MySQL to their customers, programs such as Links (or any high-volume catalog) will cause problems.

Perhaps a comparason -- there was a discussion here on the Raq servers. The company making them says they can host 200 websites.... I couldn't put http://www.postcards.com on one all to itself.

ISP's count on a customer _not_ using any resources -- except email and maybe some bandwidth (the less the better).

If you are hosting a high-end or high-volume site, you almost always have to move to a dedicated server.

To make it work via cron, try adding:

use lib '/full/path/to/admin';

before any other use statement in nph-verify.cgi.

Cheers,

Alex

Thanks for your reply. Here is the reply I got from tech support. I have a number of questions regarding dedicated server configuration but I will open a new thread for this.

"rampid"

Is that a combination of "rampant" and "rabid" ??

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