[Dxspider-support] Msg Madness - Resolved

[Dave Hawes]

As reported below, I was having daily troubles with the messaging 
system getting hosed up on my node.  The "daily" part of my problem 
caused me to ponder what Spider was doing daily, especially 
overnight, since it appeared that things were fine at bedtime, but in a 
mess in the morning.

Then it hit me:  My disk backup program (recently installed) runs 
overnight.

After some experimentation, it appears that the settings that I chose 
were not compatible with Spider.  Details:

Program:  Second Copy (shareware)
Copy Method:  Synchronize
Additional:  Set archive bit on source file after copy

I changed the method to "Exact Copy" and unchecked the "set archive 
bit" option.  Spider's message system survived several manual runs 
on the backup routine, so I am confident that this was the source of 
the trouble.

I do not know for sure whether it was the synchronize or the archive 
bit (or both) that caused the problem.

73 - Dave N3RD

On 7 Nov 2002 at 7:44, Dave Hawes wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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