| 16:11.50 | *** join/##lds aeryndunham (~aeryndunh@151.124.162.246) |
| 16:15.23 | aeryndunham | good evening! happy pioneer day :) |
| 17:05.06 | romanovic | Happy pioneer day! I'm so happy to be working today! |
| 17:06.18 | aeryndunham | Sarcasm or no? |
| 17:07.04 | romanovic | normally I'd be saying that in sarcasm, because a lot of people do get a paid holiday today |
| 17:07.59 | romanovic | but I have a relative who is indenturing family members and neighbors today on one of her more compulsive home projects, so I'm happy not to have to deal with it today |
| 17:09.04 | romanovic | more happy doing something more productive at work |
| 17:10.56 | aeryndunham | I can understand that |
| 17:16.21 | aeryndunham | I'm working on a work problem and I cannot figure it out and it's driving me bonkers |
| 17:16.24 | aeryndunham | It |
| 17:16.25 | romanovic | some people struggle with family members who are impulsive buyers and create a lot of financial stress on the family. I feel like we're in the same situation, except instead of our family finances being in ruin, it is our time and ability to take care of anything in our own home |
| 17:16.32 | romanovic | what kind of problem? javascript? |
| 17:16.36 | aeryndunham | is making me WANT to continue my javascript course |
| 17:16.38 | aeryndunham | No |
| 17:16.54 | aeryndunham | :( sorry you are having family trobles |
| 17:17.16 | romanovic | not serious. 1st world problems :) |
| 17:17.43 | aeryndunham | ah |
| 17:18.20 | aeryndunham | Basically we're having an issue with our firewall that only occurs for 5 mins at a time so I can never get anyone from head office to observe it while it happens so it's gone unfixed for months |
| 17:18.27 | aeryndunham | I'm trying to think of a way to notify them real-time |
| 17:18.59 | romanovic | oh, interesting. is it dropping traffic or something? |
| 17:20.28 | aeryndunham | Basically, passengers push 'confirm' to go online, but they don't get connected. Their time starts counting anyway, but there's no connection. We noticed that simultaneously to this happening, you also cannot access the GUI management interface for the firewall, despite being able to telnet in to the CLI |
| 17:20.43 | aeryndunham | so I thought the fact that you can't load that interface could be used to trigger some sort of alarm |
| 17:21.16 | aeryndunham | So it's like they push confirm, our database gets the message and starts ticking time off their account, but it can't get through firewall to actual internet? |
| 17:21.23 | aeryndunham | doesn't understand networking very well, obviously |
| 17:22.02 | aeryndunham | But it's very awkward to have a full internet cafe and have to be like "everyone just wait 5 mins" |
| 17:22.23 | aeryndunham | so I sort of want it fixed, they say they can't unless they can reproduce it |
| 17:30.29 | romanovic | hmm. I think your idea is good |
| 17:30.42 | romanovic | you could even make it work with javascript, or a bash script, or something |
| 17:31.33 | romanovic | there are simple commands like curl or wget where you could check access to a web-based gui |
| 17:32.18 | romanovic | and there are libraries that let you send out email messages programmatically |
| 17:33.51 | aeryndunham | Hmm yeah |
| 17:34.19 | aeryndunham | Because if pinging the IP failed it'd be real easy, but it works which is annoying |
| 17:36.52 | aeryndunham | I don't know what curl or wget do but I'll look it up |
| 17:43.15 | romanovic | ooh, this person came up with an interesting curl solution http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84814/health-check-of-web-page-using-curl |
| 17:44.17 | romanovic | one of the answers even has an example of sending an email from the command line when the url is not accessible at all |
| 17:44.27 | romanovic | curl www.websiteToTest.com -s -f -o /dev/null || echo "Website down." | mail -s "Website is down" admin@thesite.com |
| 17:44.29 | aeryndunham | The firewall is from a major company so I've been looking to see if anyone else has this issue, but doesn't look like it |
| 17:44.32 | aeryndunham | Thanks! |
| 17:45.03 | aeryndunham | Although our office compuers are all Windows :/ |
| 17:46.01 | romanovic | ah. |
| 17:48.20 | aeryndunham | I wish we used Linux |