Subj : Someone set us up the bomb!
To   : Mindless Automaton
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 10:41 pm

  Re: Someone set us up the bomb!
  By: Mindless Automaton to All on Tue Oct 04 2005 05:41 pm

 > Alrighty, I was foolin' around trying to set up Alpha Colony 6 (and failing
 > miserably) The game would lock up, so I'd just remote to the bbs machine and
 > shut it down.  I tried a regular setup and then netfossil.  Somehow, things
 > started going wacky.  The sbbsctrl process starts running at about 80-90%.
 > However, I am able to log on still and it pauses every now and again.  I log
 > off, but I still show up as connected via telnet.  (Syncterm does not displa
 > the disconnected box like it normally does when you log off) So I start look
 > at the log files and the ftp log keeps repeating "0492 FTP Server sockets
 > closed"  for about 10 minutes until I stopped the ftp server.  After I stopp
 > the server, sbbsctrl is locked up, but no longer running the cpu up.  The ft
 > log looks like this:
 > 
 > 01:42:06  0000 Recycle semaphore file (c:\sbbs\ctrl\ftpsrvr.rec) detected
 > 01:42:06  0964 Server socket closed (0 sockets in use) from line 4486
 > 01:42:30  0492 !ERROR 38 accepting connection
 > 01:42:30  0492 FTP Server sockets closed
 > 
 > (recycling due to changes in the door setup)

Was it repeating those 4 lines over and over?

 > Anyways, it was locked up so I killed the process and saved Doc Watson's fil
 > with the dump and stuff that error reporting sends to Microsoft.

If you could send the drwtsn32 file to me, that may be helpful.

 > I can't seem to reproduce it however.. :(  If you want to see some logs or t
 > Watson dump, let me know and I'll set it up.  Oh yeah, it runs fine now that
 > restarted sbbsctrl..

Are you running Synchronet NT services? If you find a way to reproduce, please
let me know.

                                                  digital man

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