David,
Im using the non-windows OS version. Im not using any handlers from your
database. Is there a way to stop/turn off the functionality that goes to
your database first?
Thanks
Vikas
>From: David Coppit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: News Clipper Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Handler server temporarily down
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:12:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>Folks,
>
>Those of you using recent versions of News Clipper have undoubtably noticed
>the messages of this sort:
>
>Couldn't download handler version information for "date". Maybe the server
> is down.
>Couldn't download handler version information for "string". Maybe the
>server
> is down.
>
>We're having a bit of trouble with the handler server. However, don't
>worry---you can still run News Clipper using the handlers you've already
>installed. The messages are just to let you know that automatic handler
>updates won't work until the server is back up.
>
>However, there is one side effect that may be preventing News Clipper from
>finishing it's job. On non-Windows platforms, News Clipper has a self-timer
>designed to keep it from running too long (scriptTimeout). It also has a
>timeout value for getting data from the Internet (socketTimeout). Lastly,
>newer versions of News Clipper also have a socketTries value which tells
>News
>Clipper how many times to try to connect to a remote server.
>
>It may be possible that News Clipper is waiting for a long time for the
>handler server to respond, and then overrunning its budgeted run time and
>aborting. For example, if you have 10 News Clipper input,filter, and output
>commands on a web page, then News Clipper would wait 10 * socketTimeout *
>socketTries seconds, which may overrun scriptTimeout seconds. The result is
>that News Clipper never finishes updating your web pages.
>
>If your web pages are not being updated, you can edit your NewsClipper.cfg
>file to reduce the socketTimeout value (say, 20) and/or increase your
>scriptTimeout value. You may also want to reduce the socketTries value to
>1.
>
>In the meantime, we'll kick the server until it gets back to work. :)
>
>Hope that helps,
>David
>
>____________________________________________________________________________
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