Subj : Re: Busy?
To   : Jeff Smith
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Jul 18 2019 07:56 am

-=> On 07-16-19 16:40, Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-

 JS> Hello There,

 JS> Of late I have been having an issue with "All nodes Busy" or busy files
 JS> that keep Fidopoll or Mutil from running. Last weekend I was away and
 JS> when I got home I found that Mystic hadn't polled out in a couple days.
 JS> I had assumed that Mutil and/or Fidopoll would normally remove the busy
 JS> file upon program termination. Also lately if were to do a manual poll
 JS> using Fidopoll I am told that Fidopoll is already running when upon
 JS> checking I find that it is in fact not running and file a busy file in
 JS> the semaphore directory. When I delete the busy file then I can poll
 JS> fine. For the moment I can create a Bash script that will test for a
 JS> "Stale" busy file and if exists remove prior to running the necessary
 JS> program. Any thoughts or anyone else seeing this behavior?

I'm curious, what version of Mystic?  I know there were versions a while ago
that had semaphore issues, but the latest (latest is 1.12 A43) few versions
have no issues in this regard.  Also, this assumes a clean shutdown of Mystic
and its utilities at all times.  My Mystic FTN hub runs pretty much hands off
these days, and no file locking issues.

It's also possible, though I haven't seen it, that Fidopoll is crashing in the
middle of doing something.  What do your logs say - is there any sign of an
incomplete session, just before things go pear shaped?  As I said, I haven't
seen any stability issues with Mystic or its utilities, but just covering all
bases.


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