Hi Folks, Hi L.D.,
L.D.Best wote:
> I apparently am cursed. I've never before had any SMTP lock-ups with
> Arachne. But someone opened his mouth ...
Oh dear ! :)
> Today I had a lockup when I attempted to send an e-mail; Arachne froze
> at the point where SMTP had sent the "sender OK" message.
Yup ! That's the place. That's where the Ferrari hits the tar pit.
> When I rebooted I went to the SMTP.LOG file to see what happened. Well,
> first I got an error message from my Norton Commander: Sector not
> found! abort/try again. I tried again, and the smtp.log file which was
> brought up was an *old* one, two messages prior to the e-mail I was
> sending at lockup time!
> So I collected clusters, with two files resulting. One of the files
> started the smtp.log from the last successfully sent message [not the
> produced when I tried to view it the first time.]
> The other file created started out with the smtp.log of the lock-up and
> finished with bits and pieces of arachne.pck [?]
Snap ! That's what I said.
> I tried to import it as text, but this is all that Insight would allow
> to come into the message:
> 220 mail2.go-concepts.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.0/8.10.0; Thu, 24 Aug 2000
> 19:53:59 -0400
> HELO go-concepts.com
> 250 mail2.go-concepts.com Hello ip208.2.209.115.go-concepts.com [208.2.209.115],
> pleased to meet you
It is a lost cluster, same as I was getting, which starts at the SMTP
log, but never actually finishes (because of the lock-up) so has
whatever was left on the disk still stuck to the bottom of the
half-written log, like dirt and grass on the bottom of a sticky jam jar
at a picnic.
I told you so ! :)
The "dirt and grass" is whatever is actually still left as data on
the hard disk adjacent to the log, that hasn't been re-written by DOS as
a FAT-recorded file.
And if aborted SMTP uploads can do it (give lost clusters), what
other not-so-visible untidiness would also give you your lost clusters ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
