just when you though everything was going well

ClearChaos · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:22

so i figured i would add a bit more error checking code to one of the sites im working on at the moment, nothing special just fires me an email if any ado errors pop up

step 1 : upload
step 2 : try and cause an error
step 3 : error found
step 4 : mail box recieves 50+ emails in a few seconds (oh ****)
step 5 : server starts to slow down
step 6 : server dies
step 7 : delete all traces of previous code
step 7 : fill out hosting tech support form
step 8 : smoke heavily and mutter about dodgy hosting when any member of staff approaches
step 9 : huge sigh of relief as hosting company restarts the server
step 10: spend next hour or so trying to delete contents of email box

in short if it aint broke dont fix, dont touch it , dont even look at it

Robdav · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:34

you spammed yourself? :eek:

lol

Inquisitor · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:38

Oops

Saberu · 26 Apr 2006 at 15:45

You should have used a trash email site to send your error report emails too when you first made it.

Beansprout · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:05

Looks like you need to find the error in the error detection loop

It's interesting that the server died, though....the mailserver should decide "ok, I've had enough" and pause for a bit.

/won't tell the story about another forum member who sent 4,000 e-mails to himself the other day

Al Vallario · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:36

How much for the spam email script?

robmiller · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:39

Al Vallario said:
How much for the spam email script?

Code:

while(1) mail("[email protected]", "LOL", "EAT MY SPAM YOU GOIT");

AS_Platinum · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:58

won't tell the story about another forum member who sent 4,000 e-mails to himself the other day

Ohh please do, i've had a terrible day at work!!

Mort · 26 Apr 2006 at 17:24

Beansprout said:
/won't tell the story about another forum member who sent 4,000 e-mails to himself the other day

AS_Platinum said:
Ohh please do, i've had a terrible day at work!!

*cough*

yeah I knew what I was doing... like load testing a mass email script for a faceparty style site i made

Beansprout · 26 Apr 2006 at 17:32

AS_Platinum said:
Ohh please do, i've had a terrible day at work!!

"Let's just test this bulk e-mail script but I don't want to bother my subscribers, so I'll send them all to my Fasthosts e-mail address"

..."Hmm, I didn't get them all...let's try again"

*Couple of hours later*

"I'm still getting these stinking e-mails!!"

There's only really one way to show it:

Real figure is somewhat higher than that though since Munin only runs intermittently, and was kinda giving up

Mind you, at least e-mails are cheaper and less embarrassing than printing...I'll never forget some programming I did in which I needed to print a few copies of something....

Code:

j = 20

while(i < j){
   print()
i = 1 + 1
}

It'd printed 500 pages before I a) noticed, b) unplugged the network cable and c) ran to the administrators.

Mort · 26 Apr 2006 at 17:40

hehe

yeah well fasthosts suck so dont really care about them, awfully sorry for your mail server pwnage though

and happens to the best of us dude

/lesson learnt :cool:

Mattus · 28 Apr 2006 at 21:45

Beansprout said:
Code:

j = 20 while(i < j){ print() i = 1 + 1 }

It'd printed 500 pages before I a) noticed, b) unplugged the network cable and c) ran to the administrators.

Haha... unlucky, one character wrong! Get in trouble for it?

Beansprout · 28 Apr 2006 at 22:18

Mattus said:
Haha... unlucky, one character wrong! Get in trouble for it?

Nope, and iirc this was before print credit system worked properly

They laughed at me