Subj : hpt squish corruption
To   : Kai Richter
From : Phil Kimble
Date : Wed Jun 06 2018 06:04:36

 KR> Hello Phil!
Hi Kai,

 KR> 05 Jun 18, Phil Kimble wrote to All:
 PK>> Does any know if hpt is compatiable with squish message bases?

 KR> Running well for years here. But it's more like a point system, no 
 KR> high traffic. Two crashes happend due to harddisk failures.
Ok, so I am no longer worried. 1 person says so, it may be true. 2 people say 
ot, it must be true. Or something as such.

 PK>> I just expereinced a major msgbase corrption wiping everything out:

 KR> I heard that there is a bug in the husky tool sqfix, but i couldn't 
 KR> deny or confirm that, nor i do remember which version it was.
I was using hpt tools to pack the message bases.  I logged in with msged, 
noticed that one of the echos was growing too large & nothing worth keeping, so 
logged out & purged using the hpt tools. 

 PK>> x.sqd files were bloated & showing a fictous file size of 388G in
 KR> This looks like a filesystem or disk problem.

 PK>> x.sqi files were all zero bytes fle size
 KR> That's the index files. Those can be rebuild if the *.sqd is not 
 KR> damaged.
How so? Do tell becuase that would be rather useful to know.

 PK>> x.sql files were of insigifcant differences
 KR> Lastread Pointer file for BBS and Editor. Can be deleted with the 
 KR> side effect that all mail will be show as new to the users.
Nothing concerning then.

 PK>> Any comments/insights?  Is jam message bases a better solution??
 KR> If you want to change check that all tools that you use are capable 
 KR> of dealing with jam base.
This is a very lightweight/low budget system at thr moment as it is on a vps 
while I am out of the country. Hopefully in August I will be able to stand up a 
clean system at home.

 KR> Regards
 KR> Kai
Thanks!!

 KR> -+- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7
 KR>  + Origin:  Monobox  (2:240/77)
One of these days I will get GoldED+ running.  But the darn config file 
requires more reading time than I have to spare.

TschuZ!
Phil

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