[Xitami] VISTA, crashes, etc.

[Paul Reid]

 > The way it reads is that any user accessing the site, the first one 
to see the message has the option to abort your reboot

"a VB routine to access the site via winhttp ever minute.  If it fails 
to get a response it will become visual, warn the person using the 
machine that it will reboot in 1 minute.  If the user does not abort the 
reboot it reboots and Xitami restarts on the reboot."

Says to me that he runs the webserver in the background on a workstation 
which may have a colleague *sitting at it*.

Back in the late 1980s, I ran servers in workstations. A 286 can do 
NetWare 2 and WordStar at the same time. And you could rig it so NW 
errors did, or did-not, get posted to the screen for the user's 
attention. At home I often ran Xitami just for local uses.

I suspect that a dedicated machine is usually a better plan than a 
user-workstation. Users tend to flog windows (yes, and unixes) into a 
jam once a month, while my server-only machines run many months.

OTOH, if a machine has a regular user, and the power blips or a re-start 
stalls, the user will do something (kick it, hard restart, or call 
Gary). One of my low-use unattended machines was down for a day and I 
didn't know.

 > 9 out of 10 times, a service restart fixes the problem

In NT4 and up, yes, service restart usually clears the problem. (I don't 
know Vista.)

-- 
Paul Reid