Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 10:51:00 07/09/98
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On July 09, 1998 at 12:53:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 09, 1998 at 12:40:10, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>This is deja vu. We had this discussion, and Steve agreed to raise it to 36 >>hours. I never checked to see if he did, since I use 72 hours. Apparently not. I >>prefer 72 hours so threads are in order. > >Yes, it is deja vu. The 24 hour thing was on for a while, but then seemingly >fell off with no explanation. Hi, We did give an explanation I think, you may have missed it. We had gone to 36 hours for a short time. Shortly after we had some server problems. The sysop on our web server noticed the change in date on our script, and since we hadn't had a problem before for a while before that, he asked us to put it back to the way it was. Now that we are on a more reliable server, I'd be open to going back to a 24 or 36 hour default on a trial basis. As for the crash last week, I'm still not sure what happened. Certain completely unrelated files were wiped clean - the counters, the current polls, and the file which holds the next message number for the CCC. (This is what messed things up here, the scripts rely on these numbers to be in sequence to do sorting and filtering.) Nothing in the error logs. Oh well. I did add some file locking to make sure two instances of the scripts don't try to write to the same file at the same time, but I don't think this was the problem in this case.
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