[ic] testing to see if IC server is responding

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> > >     I don't think I have seen this mentioned here before.  What would be
> the
> > > most effective way of seeing if the IC server is responding to incoming
> > > connections?  I am having an intermittent issue where requests handled
> by
> >
> > If you run in INET mode as well as UNIX mode (you can do it only on
> > localhost with "TcpMap  127.0.0.1:7786 -") then you can see if IC
> > is accepting connections. This says it is alive; if you are running
> > in PreFork mode you can be confident it will process requests.
> 
>     I did neglect to mention that I run only in UNIX mode.  Perhaps I should
> toss together a perl script or temporarily enable INET mode.


??? 

All it takes is 

Inet_Mode Yes
TcpMap 127.0.0.1:7786

You don't have to use that port for any other purpose, and being on
localhost should be pretty safe.

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