This happened on one of our services recently (1.8e on Windows 2k Server) -
Listserv crashes and then sends an error reports when you restart it. I
think it happened once before - but probably more than 12 months ago.

I didn't have to amend any notebook files - just deleted all the .db* index
files in the list-logs dir, for that list; then performed an archive search,
which causes Listserv to first rebuild the index files. It worked fine and
didn't crash again. Weird really because you would have expected it to crash
if there was some sort of corruption on the notebook file or somthing.

--
Spencer Warhurst
Listserv Services Manager

JISCmail -> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV give-and-take forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Bill Verity
> Sent: 04 August 2004 14:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Listserv dying during reindexing
>
>
> About once a week listserv dies while trying to update some
> indexes.  It just stops running.  There is nothing in the log
> to inidicate a problem.   We are running 1.8e on AIX.  It
> happened when we ran 1.8d also.  I've got a daemon that runs
> very half hour to catch this sort of thing and reboot, so it
> is not as big a problem as it used to be.  Sometimes I edit
> the offending notebook and remove any huge articles.  Strange
> thing is it doesn't happen every night, so it appears to be random.
> --
> Bill Verity - 814-865-4758  Fax: 814-863-7049
> Listserv Administrator
> 215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services,
> Penn State University
> At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)
>