F-prot auto updates ...

[Plant, Dean]

Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> Ok, thanks. Then i know its not just me :)
>
>> I only noticed a backlog yesterday 20:00 (GMT +2).
>>
>> Checking my log I can't see anything strange at that time. I do see
>> an entry "Jul  7 19:02:13 netlx014 F-Prot autoupdate[7265]: F-Prot
>> successfully updated." So it took just over 2 minutes to update my
>> systems.
>>
>> Going back in my logs I noticed it normally takes 10 to 15 seconds to
>> update F-Prot. But I don't think 2 minutes is that much of a problem
>> when I update F-Prot.
>
> A little later this was fixed. Most likely due to network or system
> problems @f-prot. It was also depending on what machine in their load
> balanced cluster you were ending. So i guess one or two boxes that
> would not do the right things :)
>
> All seems fixed now indeed btw.
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.

Should there not be an timeout built into the update process to ensure this does not happen?

Dean Plant

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