[Dxspider-support] More Msg Madness

[Dave Hawes]

Running Build 57.146 on Win98SE

Summary:

Most recent new message is number 1, instead of the next message 
in the directory sequence.

W3FRC (Spider) is connected to K2UT (Spider) and N3RS (AK1A).  A 
message "passing through" W3FRC from K2UT to N3RS for some 
reason was assigned message number 1.  It should have been 
message number 20.

Here is a clip from the debug file where the message number is 
assigned for the incoming message from node K2UT:

<- I K2UT PC28^W3FRC^K2UT^AA1K^W3BGN^ 7-Nov-
2002^1139Z^1^SR^ ^5^0^ ^K3WW^~
msgno 1 allocated for K2UT
new message from W3BGN to AA1K 'SR' stream K2UT/1

The PC28 is all one line.

In spider\msg there are two other files of interest:

"msgno" and "k2ut"

the contents of each is the integer 1.  Both have the same file 
modification date/time, that being the same as Message 1.  I 
remember looking at the "msgno" file last evening and it contained the 
number of the last message in the directory.  The question is, "Why 
did the message numbering system spontaneously restart at 1?" and 
further "How do the 'msgno' files and '<node call>' files interact, and 
should there even be a '<node call>' file in spider\msg?"

The weirdness continues.  I virtually certain at this point that if I restart 
the Spider software that the message directory would be purged, and 
we'd be back to square one.  This has happened often recently, which 
is why there are so few messages in the system.

Any info on this would be appreciated.

73 - Dave N3RD