Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.14 $; site siemens.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!siemens!hartmann From: hartmann@siemens.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.notes Subject: Re: detecting problems with notesfile Message-ID: <105100002@siemens.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 15:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: siemens.105100002 Posted: Thu Sep 19 15:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:06:21 EDT References: <1445@rocksvax.UUCP> Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:rocksvax:-144500:siemens:105100002:000:1788 Nf-From: siemens!hartmann Sep 19 15:00:00 1985 I have been experiencing the same problem recently with our nfarchive. The archiver tells me what it is doing in a cronlog file, so every morning when I come in, I look at the cronlog file to make sure the archiver ran complete. I came in one morning to find that the archiver had bombed out while it was archiving net.abortion. I looked in net.abortion and found that the comp.* files were still there (created by the archiver) the notesfile was closed, and there was a lock file for it. I opened the notesfile so it could be read, but didn't know what to do with the rest of the mess. I looked everywhere I could for the source of the problem, but wasn't getting anywhere. This kept happening to me for about a week. I'd come in to find that the archiver bombed out on net.abortion again, the notesfile was closed, and there was a lock file for it again. At this point, I sent a mail message to Ray Essick asking for help. Needless to say, the removal of net.abortion solved all my problems. But, just this week, I discovered that the archiver bombed out again on net.wanted. After going through the mess with net.abortion, I decided to just leave the notesfile in the state it was, comp.* files present and closed. I was hoping to hear from Ray Essick before I tackled the problem again. Much to my surprise, the next morning I came in to find that net.wanted was fixed. There were no comp.* files, the notesfile was open, AND the archiver had run successfully on it the previous evening! What happened? I don't know, but I DO KNOW that if I run into this problem again, I'll leave the notesfile be and hope it fixes itself again. If it doesn't, then I'll worry about it. Terri Hartmann Siemens Research and Technology Lab Princeton, NJ princeton!siemens!hartmann