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Got ahold of Admiral. The email functions should now be working. The DNS should be updated in a few hours. If all goes well I'll turn auto processing back on in a couple days.

Geoschmo

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Seems to be acting up again - the main page is just fine, but once you go into text or graphic modes it can't find anything... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Seems to be down again.

Is there a NEW link to the site, maybe one I don't know about?

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Should be working again..

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It seems that the turn scheduler hasn't been adjusted for the earlier daylight savings. I've notice that games that just ran and won't run again until after Sunday had an hour added to their "Next turn" time. Daylight savings used to start on the first Sunday in April.

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Hmm, that's a wierd one. I was not aware the code was doing any manipulation of the scheduled run time for daylight savings time, but I guess it makes sense. It might be in Java actually not in the PBW code Admiral wrote. I updated the time on the server but didn't update Java. My guess is once we are passed the date when daylight savings normally runs it will correct itself.

Geoschmo

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Yes, it was actually only down for a couple minutes the other day at 5:30 am when you noticed the problem. The modem script we have on the server senses those outages and resets the modem. If you ever have trouble getting to the server, give it about five minutes and try again. Most of the time it will be back up by then. If not there is some other problem that I will have to handle directly.

Geoschmo

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No luck getting PBW at the moment.

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das ist upgefucht http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I don't understand your faux German. Am I the only one with the problem or is everyone getting it?

Edit: Peculiar that it's almost been 24 hours and there are no legible responses one way or the other. I'd expect Geoschmo or someone to comment if it was down and if it isn't then I'd appreciate confirmation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Maybe they are all gone for the week-end?

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It was down. I wasn't online yesterday so I didn't know there was a problem. Looks like it's working ok now.

Geoschmo

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Seems to be down once again... well, the front page is OK, but the text and graphic interfaces don't work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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The server should be back up and running now.

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Geo, can you make it so that it resets the turn time on all the games if it goes down?

ie if a game has 48hour turns, and PBW goes down, then when it goes back up the turn will be reset to annother 48 hours.

I keep having to replay turns because somone didn't make it in because PBW went down for a few hours, and the admin is pulling it back a turn.

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I can put that on the list of suggestions. I'm not sure how complicated a change that would be though. It sounds kind of tough on the surface.

Geoschmo

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yeah it depends how it's coded.
it could be a peice of cake, or it could be complicated.

hey I just saw that you got ahold of admaral up there... was it him who made the Real Time Client? if so, does he still have the source? I'd like to have a shot at getting it to work for SEV if I can get ahold of it.

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and it's down again.

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Ok, should be working ok again now.

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geo will like the latest patch.

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PBW seems to be suffering from some issues lately. What are the specific problems and is there anything the community can do to help get them fixed? Is it just an ISP issue or is it hardware?

PBW is very important to the game and I am surprised it is not officially funded/supported by Malfador/Strategy First. The volunteers have done a great job, but they shouldn't have to :-/

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I don't think it's all that bad really. 5/4, 4/27, 4/14. That's not even once a week. It's not up to par with a site hosted at a professional server farm, but for an amatuer operation run on shoestrings out of my garage it's not bad.

Geoschmo

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Exactly, you guys are doing a great job. Im just curious what causes the outages?

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It varies. The script I wrote is doing a pretty good job of resetting the cable modem if the ISP acts up. But occasionally the cable modem will lock up where the script can't access the modem to reset it and I have to power cycle it. And like any windows server it will lock up occasionally. I should probably be more proactive and do reboots every few days, but I tend to forget about it unless there is a problem. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ah ok. I'm surprised your cable modem locks up, who do you use?

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How soon until v1.35 is available on PBW?

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At least a couple days.

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Cool thanks.

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There has been long delays with installing mods or SE:V patches on PBW. Is it only up to you Geo to install these items? Can it be done remotely by another admin? Would that even be possible?

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I get help on mods from Georgig and now Fyron. The new patches are a little more involved though so I prefer to do those myself at the server in case there is a problem.

Geoschmo

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I am getting an Internal Server Error, tryoing to get to PBW

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Should be back working now.

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Doesn't appear to be, now.

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Ok. Had a server hiccup that time. But it appears to be runnign ok now.

Geoschmo

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Looks like it is down again.

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Why does PBW keep going down in the evening? (~11pm to ~1am PST)

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It doesn't. It did last night, but it's back up now. The isp was offline when I got up this am. Most of the time when that happens the script I wrote for the server can reset it, this time it couldn't and I had to power cycle the modem.

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It's down again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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It's still down this morning.

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Ok, back up now.

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doesn't seem to want to email out though. I processed a turn manually, and it completed but didn't send out the new turn. I also sent out a message for the game but that didn't go either. But that was about 2 hours ago. Haven't checked within the last hour-ish.

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Ok, I'm checking into that. It does appear to be having some email problems at the moment.

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Ok, looks like the email is working now. Can you verify in your games? There really isn't any way to get it to resend old ones if they didn't come thrgouh, but new stuff should be coming out now.

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Server is having some issues this morning. Will have it back up as soon as possible.

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Ok, site is back up, but it does appear that autoprocessing is not working. I'm not sure what the problem is. You should be able to force the turns and they should run if all files get uploaded. I'm looking into why automatic processing isn't working.

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Autoprocessing is working again.

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Seem to be having an issue with sending emails from the server. Turn messages aren't going out. Not sure if this just started or was happening the other day and I just ddn't notice it then cause of the other problems. Workign on a resolution.

Geoschmo

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The whole site seems to be down now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif