[OpenAFS] AFS service croaking on W2K machines

[Rodney M Dyer]

Mr. Daniels,

You are right, the service hasn't had a great track record on Windows.  The 
Win2k service management console recovery tab allows you to perform 
restarts of a service automatically if you want to try that.  It's a built 
in part of the service control manager.

See the following image...

http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer/recovery.JPG

What we did was task schedule a watchdog script to check the service and 
restart it if neccessary.  You can do the same.  We also restart the 
service every night at 4:00am and delete the cache just for reliability.

Good luck,

Rodney

Rodney M. Dyer
x86 Systems Programmer
Mosaic Computing Group
William States Lee College of Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Email rmdyer@uncc.edu
Phone (704)687-3518
Help Desk Line (704)687-3150
FAX (704)687-2352
Office  267 Smith Building


At 02:49 PM 4/3/2003 -0500, patrick daniels wrote:
>Has anyone come up with any means of providing users (either power or 
>restricted) with the ability to restart the AFS service when it dies, 
>other than rebooting?
>
>Otherwise, any suggestions on tweaks to AFS to reduce frequency of service 
>dying, or general suggestions for improving stability on Windows platform?
>
>We schedule a reboot for machines nightly, to get around this problem, but 
>I'd love a software solution....
>
>Thanks.
>
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