CERN Eric Thomas <ERIC@CEARN>
Thu, 31 Mar 88 23:15:00 GVA
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There has been a "loop" on 9370-L this evening. I say "loop" because I am
almost certain this is not due to LISTSERV. A zillion (well actually 21)
copies of the same mailfile have been distributed to the list. The mail body
itself does not contain anything strange at all - no complaint from a gateway
or mailer. The file came from DEDOUREK@UNB (MVS/XA JES2 site, probably running
UCLA-Mail?)
If you look at the 'Date:' fields in the distributed mail files, you will see
that all of them are differents. There are two possibilities:
1. These were generated by LISTSERV. This is impossible since the timezone is
AST whereas the timezone of LISTSERV@HEARN is MET.
2. They were generated by something else. In that case, we have several input
files to LISTSERV and this is not a LISTSERV bug. Note that LISTSERV would
have stopped after (the list's) DAILY-THRESHOLD files anyway, which
defaults to 50.
The present situation is this:
- The list is held, and will remain so until the problem is identified and
fixed.
- I have purged over 600 files on HEARN-FRMOP22, which was very tedious (I
wish you could just PURGE FRMOP22 /9370-L MAIL/ :-) ). For each file I had
to do a Q F spoolid VM. I didn't do it by hand of course, but with the
REJECTED BY TASK XXX - PREVIOUS COMMAND ACTIVE it took a lot of passes to
have the link cleaned up.
- I am assuming that a bunch of files are accumulating on the reader of
[log in to unmask] Hans-Ulrich will have to purge them manually...
- Rob has cleaned up the list archives (I have a copy of the original log if
anyone's interested).
Eric
PS: Here's an excerpt of a few of the headers...
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