On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Mike McGrath
<mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>
>> Michael McGrath wrote:
>> > Should we include a section with each standard that includes basic problem
resolution and troubleshooting?
>> >
>> > I hesitate to include it because I'm not sure its the type of thing
that would ever be complete.
>> >
>>
>> I can imagine the Configuration Management HOWTO having a section for
>> Common Problems & General Troubleshooting, if that's what you mean?
>>
>> What were you thinking about?
>>
>
> Well, lets say apache is down.
>
> 1) Is apache running?
> no?
> run service httpd configtest
> error? Fix config
> no error? Start apache, look through logs for outage cause
> yes?
> Is the network running?
> yes?
> Is it routing?
> Yes?
> blah
> no?
> restart network / add default route
> no?
> start network
>
I would put this as a separate living document that ties into the main
one. It would need to be living because well, EL-2.1 problems are
differtent from EL-5 from F-10 (why doesn't my changes to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts seem to work?)
Yeah, Seems like I'll have to think on it some more on where to put it and
exactly what should be in there.
-Mike