Failure cenarios?

[Gaute Amundsen]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 11:27, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Gaute Amundsen <gaute at pht.no> writes:
> > Now the question is, how do I best detect if varnsih should have a
> > problem?  Would it be reasonably reliable to just chek if the pid from
> > /var/run/varnish.pid is running, do I need to fetch a page, or is
> > there some better way?
>
> I would recommend retrieving a page (or a set of pages).  Simply
> checking the pid won't help you if Varnish has gone off into la-la land,
> or been SIGSTOPped or something.
>
> DES

Not what I _wanted_ to hear, but what I expected i guess :)

Gaute