[U2] UD read anomolies

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Haskett
I'm running a midnight phantom that phantom's a program that logs into the appropriate account and runs the daily cleanup process. One of the tasks this program performs is it cleans up the mv.NET with the following code: * ** Clean up MV.NET by chaining to it (because mv.NET can't execute **

Re: [U2] UD read anomolies

2008-01-02 Thread Martin Phillips
Hi Bill, Is it possible that the phantom is starting up twice or the file is being opened simultaneously by two processes for some other reason? The reason I ask is that we have encountered a very strange behaviour of the anti-virus software that we use here. If two processes attempt to open

RE: [U2] UD read anomolies

2008-01-02 Thread colin.alfke
Similar to Martin's response - we have an overnight process that gets hammered every once in a while when it hits a file that is in the process of being backed up and the backup software locks it. Depending on the site we either reschedule one (or both) processes so they don't overlap or we set

RE: [U2] UD read anomolies

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Haskett
don't know if the mv.NET cleanup uses a clear-file, but it probably does. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Phillips Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:59 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UD read anomolies

RE: [U2] UD read anomolies

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Haskett
Subject: Re: [U2] UD read anomolies Hi Bill, Can't be sure without seeing the actual code, but my guess is that the CLEAR-FILE on MVNET.READIMAGES is still running when a subsequent command tries to use the file. CLEAR-FILE on Unidata is essentially a DELETE-FILE followed by a CREATE-FILE