I posted two messages yesterday to the Junkmail list and they have not
shown up yet
I was about to send Scott a message.
Goran Jovanovic
The LAN Shoppe
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [sniffer] Lists Ping?
>
> Hey, John.
>
> Who are you talking to? Gee the lists are quiet.
>
>
> Andrew 8)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
> (Lists)
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [sniffer] Lists Ping?
>
>
> Your ping was not received.
>
> You must have done something wrong.
>
> No one is here.
>
> No one is home.
>
> :\
>
> John Tolmachoff
> Engineer/Consultant/Owner
> eServices For You
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On
> > Behalf Of Marc Catuogno
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:35 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [sniffer] Lists Ping?
> >
> > Is it just me or are all the lists (Imail, Declude V and JM and this
> > one
> > offline??)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:18 PM
> > To: Bill Green dfn Systems
> > Subject: Re: [sniffer] ERROR message in snifferp Command Prompt
window
> >
> > On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 3:20:25 PM, Bill wrote:
> >
> > BGdS> I have started seeing this line repeated in the persistent
> > BGdS> sniffer
> > command
> > BGdS> window.
> >
> > BGdS> ERROR_LOGFILE: Bad Lock During Logging
> > BGdS> c:\imail\declude\sniffer\"mycode".log
> >
> > BGdS> It looks like the error has been happening once a day for
about
> > BGdS> a
> > week.
> > BGdS> Other than the message all seems to be working well. Where
> > BGdS> should I
> > look for
> > BGdS> the cause?
> >
> > The first clue I can see is that it happens once per day... Chances
> > are there is a scheduled process interfering with the log file, the
> > storage system in general (perhaps some backups or other IO
intensive
> > operation).
> >
> > Locking is a very lightweight mechanism in SNF because most
operations
>
> > are synchronized and sequential. If you are only seeing one of these
> > per day then there is no cause to worry - but do keep an eye on it
so
> > that it doesn't get worse without you knowing it.
> >
> > A bad lock is probably a stale lock file --- The protocol would be
to
> > simply ignore the lock after waiting the appropriate amount of time.
> >
> > In theory, no lock should be required to write to the log file
because
>
> > it is opened in "append" mode. Unfortunately on Win32 based systems
> > this doesn't mean what it should. That is, write operations are not
> > 'atomic' --- so if more than one process tries to append to the log
> > file at once the result is unpredictable corruption.
> >
> > The locking mechanism we're using here (creating a lock semaphore
> > file) is only intended to synchronize access to the file since Win32
> > doesn't. The fact that one process will wait - even if the lock
fails
> > - usually accomplishes this task. If the process were to fail and
two
> > processes wrote (append) to the log file at once then it is
possible,
> > but not certain, that log corruption would occur -- which is not
> > strictly vital for the odd record here and there.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > _M
> >
> >
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