Speaking of the SABC, I previously boosted a post by fanbot that Channel Africa was on 13.780 MHz; I was told subsequently that Channel Africa no longer exists, so I now have my doubts about HF Underground being authoritative. Til now I always thought it was. Perhaps it's best if it sticks to its pirate radio knitting.
Britain's economy will be among the hardest hit by the global trade war and inflation is set to climb, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned – as it slashed its UK growth forecast by a third.
We all know periscopes serve for observation where there’s no direct line-of-sight, but did you know they can allow you to peer through history? That’s what [msylvain59] documented when he p…
Woe is the pinata, a casualty of Trump trade war (Credits: AP) The humble pinata has become one of the latest targets to take a whacking in US President Donald Trump's trade war.
"Part 15" means a part of FCC law that permits low power broadcasts without a license when other conditions are met, such as antenna type and height etc.
#MonarchMonday Usually the first meal of a Monarch hatchling is his eggshell. His second meal is any other egg nearby, if there is one, and when a gravid female does an egg dump in her last days of life, it'll happen.
Of course not! Those were top acting names and those names made the characters their own so much nobody could follow those acts. Caesar Romero Burgess Meredith Frank Gorshin Eartha Kitt Julie Newmar
"The 1960s "Batman" television series can be pretty zany, but for many of the actors who appeared on the show it was no laughing matter." slashfilm.com/1825850/batman-1…
Picture it--1940s and a guy at the bar is arguing with the barkeep to not bounce him. It's late and he's scared of going home to his wife. Also planning on what he's going to tell her.
In walked a blonde and, dear, she asked me to dance I told that blonde that there wasn't a chance I love my kids and my beautiful wife That's the honest truth, dear, and I swear by my life!
There's things I am sweetheart, and things that I ain't 'cause I'm a man and a man is no saint Won't you forgive 'cause I'm tellin' you true I was in the tavern only thinkin' of you Just singin':
Sparrow in the treetop, sparrow in the treetop Though he loves his mate Sparrow in the treetop, sparrow in the treetop Scared of goin' home because it's too darn late!
Jose Cuervo, you are a friend of mine I like to drink you with a little salt and lime Did I kiss all the cowboys? Did I shoot out the lights? Did I dance on the bar Did I cause any fights?
A handbag belonging to the homeland #security secy #KristiNoem containing her passport, dept security badge & $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday night at a restaurant in Washington. [zero irony]
Noem confirmed the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday morning.
DHS did not give specifics, but said it could confirm the details of a CNN article, which said that Noem’s bag also contained her driver’s license, medication, apartment keys & blank checks.
The Instance was down twice last night. The first time I restarted MariaDB from my phone via a SSH session. The second time it was near time to go home when I noticed so I let it be until I could get to the house. I decided that seeing I cannot seem to get the services tweaked for all cases and I have not seen what is causing them to crash. Though PHP-FPM and MariaDB take turns shutting down on the Instance. I would at least like to make sure the Instance does not stay down for a prolonged period of time. I wrote a quick and dirty bash script to check the services on the Instance and to start them if they are not active. I then added a line on the system crontab to run the script every 15 minutes. So in a worse case scenario the Instance could be down for 15 minutes if it happens to go down directly after a check. For now this will make sure the Instance stays up until I can find out what is causing the shutdowns and fix the issues. I am sure there are m
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The Instance was down twice last night. The first time I restarted MariaDB from my phone via a SSH session. The second time it was near time to go home when I noticed so I let it be until I could get to the house. I decided that seeing I cannot seem to get the services tweaked for all cases and I have not seen what is causing them to crash. Though PHP-FPM and MariaDB take turns shutting down on the Instance. I would at least like to make sure the Instance does not stay down for a prolonged period of time. I wrote a quick and dirty bash script to check the services on the Instance and to start them if they are not active. I then added a line on the system crontab to run the script every 15 minutes. So in a worse case scenario the Instance could be down for 15 minutes if it happens to go down directly after a check. For now this will make sure the Instance stays up until I can find out what is causing the shutdowns and fix the issues. I am sure there are many and it is not just one simple problem. 😉
If any other administrator is curios the script is quite simple.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Check to be sure all services are active, if not start them
# This shell script is invoked by cron every 15 minutes on this server
# note: The script does nothing if the services are active.
apache_status=$(systemctl is-active httpd)
mariadb_status=$(systemctl is-active mariadb)
phpfpm_status=$(systemctl is-active php-fpm)
if [ "$mariadb_status" == "failed" ]; then
systemctl start mariadb
fi
if [ "$phpfpm_status" == "failed" ]; then
systemctl start php-fpm
fi
if [ "$apache_status" == "failed" ]; then
systemctl start httpd
fi
unset apache_status
unset mariadb_status
unset phpfpm_status
This of course only works if you are using systemd to manage your services on your system. I named the script services (no extension as bash scripts should not have an extension in most cases). I also invoke it in via cron every 15 minutes. The crontab is located in /etc/crontab for most 'nix type systems. I put the bash script in /var/www/html/bin where all the other Instance scripts are. You should have cron run the script as root so that the services can be started if need be.
# Example crontab line in /etc/crontab
# insert this at the end of the current crontab
*/15 * * * * root cd /var/www/html/bin; ./services
Sorry for the inconvenience of the Instance being down.
Last night I was participating in Monsterdon but hadn't done anything but boost other posts for Hashtag Games when it went down once, so all I did was participate in doing exactly that on My Portal. I'm relieved that I didn't cause the second outage, ha. I wasn't aware of the 2nd time til just now, reading your post. The time stamp on my last post last night is 01:24:01
I doubt you had anything to do with either outage. The first time it was MariaDB that went down and that has never happened due to hashtaggames, that was PHP-FPM. The second time it was PHP-FPM that went down and there was no activity on the site when it happened so I am looking into it. I posted right before I went to sleep, after writing the script so I am just getting up. 😉
I'm sooooo ready for #Monsterdon this time around that I even got my custom-made Bingo card for it.. apparently Bingo Baker is a website that generates Bingo cards that won't be like somebody else's Bingo card for the same movie.
You'd think that Illinois would have learned from its Clinton mistake--the nuke plant at Clinton is a big reason why there is no longer an Illinois Power Company.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In her 28 years working for the federal government, Shea Giagnorio provided day care for the children of U.S. soldiers, training for
A repeat airing of "The Americas" (Mexico) happening today, narrated by Tom Hanks, also covered the migration of #MonarchButterflies tonight too. Monarch bonanza today! #HappyEaster indeed!
Begging pardon for that last BytesEU boost because their link did NOT take one to the page they were posting about re: hereditary membership in UK's House of Lords. I have the direct link and I'll put it at the end of this missive.
Before Starmer was made PM I'd heard rumors that Labour would do away with the House of Lords, and long prior to that, when I got into arguing with people claiming that Britain is a democracy with a constitutional monarchy, I always brought up the undemocratic House of Lords as frequent case in point as well as decried any usage of the terms "Upper House" and "Lower House" especially when applied to the U.S. Congress.
One does achieve membership in the House of Lords by election or by royal appointment, exceptions given for those inherited seats. One should never be able to inherit a seat in government. The royal figureheads should not be active participants in actual government and yet in the UK the royals meddle in both houses. The UK is long overdue for the change for the fully-elected Houses of Commons and Lords.
Kate WhannelPolitical reporterGetty ImagesImprisoned in the Tower of London in 1538 waiting to be executed, Henry Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, wrote on his cell walls words which would become his family's motto - 'Where have I fallen, what have I do…
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#BartenderASongOrPoem
In some secluded rendezvous
That overlooks the avenue,
With someone sharing a delightful chat
Of this and that and cocktails for two.
As we enjoy a cigarette
In some exquisite chansonnette,
Two hands are sure to slyly meet beneath
A serviette with cocktails for two.
My head may go reeling, but my heart will be obedient,
With intoxicating kisses for the principal ingredient.
Most any afternoon at five
We’ll be so glad we’re both alive.
Then maybe fortune will complete her plan
That all began with cocktails for two.
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