Subj : Don't want to screw up!
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jan 02 2005 02:32 pm

  Re: Don't want to screw up!
  By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Sun Jan 02 2005 08:24 am

 >  >  > 1) I don't want to flood the network with a couple hundred thousand du
 >  >  >    So when I copy the .sda/.sdt/.sha/.shd/.sid out of the old data/sub
 >  >  >    to the new data/subs, I want to copy data/qnet/VERT.ptr as well, ri
 >  >  >    Do I have to do anything else to prevent a dup-flood?
 >  >
 >  > The vert.ptr file will only be compatible with your new instance if you u
 >  > exactly same "ptridx" values for the sub-boards in your ctrl/msgs.cnf fil
 >  > It's probabl best, if you're going to start with new configuration files,
 >  > start with new data files too.
 > 
 > Perhaps I should just copy the ctrl/msgs.cnf file as well as subs/* and
 > VERT.ptr?  I'd really prefer not to lose the old messages, if it's
 > practical to save them.  I've got nearly 130,000 of them going back a fair
 > old ways.

Yeah, that'll work. Or you could manually fix the ptridx values for each sub
(taking care not to duplicate any other sub's ptridx value), but that'd be a
pain.

                                                  digital man

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