Subj : STINGER.ZIP
To   : Janis Kracht
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 02 2014 11:15 am


 On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Janis Kracht wrote to Nicholas Boel:

> Whoever is releasing STINGER.ZIP is releasing it twice in a very 
> short period of time on the same day every week. Can you please cut 
> that down to only once? Or, if you absolutely must hatch it out 
> twice, space it out timewise a bit?

 JK> You can see each of the releases are different file sizes:

the problem i see is of similar nature to the nodelist files of the same name 
in different areas... the second file to arrive overwrites the original 
not-yet-processed one but both tics remain... allfix sees the file doesn't 
match the first tic so it sidelines them... when it gets to the second tic, the 
file doesn't exist so it sidelines the second tic too... this happens endlessly 
at each processing even when -tossbad is used... it requires manual 
intervention to figure out which tic goes with the remaining file and deleting 
the other(s) that may point to the same filename...

stinger isn't the newest one with this problem... we had the nodelist thing a 
while back... i also see this all the time in the three or four ECHOxxxx files 
from the R50 area... there are others but i cleaned stuff up the other day and 
they haven't hit again and i don't remember them...

i process mail once an hour... i can only imagine the troubles that a systems 
that processes only once or twice a day would see... deity knows what kinda 
mess one sees when they return from some days of down time and pull multiple 
hatchings of the same filename...

yeah, extension renumbering? that'll help keep the subsequent files but still 
requires manual intervention... that's something i need to figure out how to do 
in my hybrid processing setup, too... right now when the files are moved to the 
central processing area, they will overwrite others of the same name that exist 
in there... that script is already ugly as sin and will get uglier as time goes 
on...

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