On 11/9/2010 8:08 PM, sharadov wrote:
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> Hey Vick - I inherited this system, and the reason am here on this forum, is
> to figure this out.
> And I don't need any unsolicited advice from the likes of you.

Everyone take a deep breath!

We don't need exchanges like this on the Slony mailing lists. Vick is 
one of the most helpful people on here. That comment about going home 
may have been uncalled for, but it isn't that bad either. If you 
inherited production servers and have such little expertise in the 
actual administration of that operating system that you don't know how 
to check if a certain executable is running, the chance for you doing 
more harm while stumbling around with root permissions is pretty big. IF 
that is the case that you are on an unfamiliar OS lacking proper 
documentation of what is installed and where, you should consider hiring 
a consultant for a day or two to figure this out.

If that is not an option, first of all figure out how the slon processes 
are launched (if at all) on system startup. Depending on your OS and 
distribution, there should be a start/stop script somewhere in a init.d 
or rc.d directory, that launches and kills the slon executable.

 From that script you should be able to figure out the actual location 
of the slon process binary. Execute that with the -v option to get the 
exact version number of the installed Slony. This will allow us to give 
you version specific help since things have changed over time.

The script should also show you where the slon log files are located. 
Examine them according to Chris' comments.


Jan



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> Vick Khera wrote:
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>>  On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:45 PM, sharadov<sreddy at spark.net>  wrote:
>>>  how do i check if the son daemons are running?
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>>  They're just unix processes. Look for them.  If you don't know how to
>>  do that, just turn off your computers and go home as this is well
>>  beyond your experience.
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>>  Your replication has fallen behind by 20 days.  At this point I'd say
>>  it would be faster to drop it all and recreate from scratch.
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