Last modified: 2014-02-04 21:45:42 UTC
morebots regularly dies, because of netsplits and whatnot. For the simplest cases, a restart loop should be (re)instated. This is how it used to work, as documented by Tim: «It is started automatically from /etc/rc.local so it's not usually necessary to run this shell script directly. Sometimes the python client gets stuck. So kill it and let it restart itself [...]» https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morebots&oldid=46101
As it is running as
(In reply to comment #1) > As it is running as I meant to continue "a grid job" and write about continuous jobs on Tools that are all peachy, before I noticed that continuous jobs are only restarted when they exit with failure which may or may not be the case for morebots.