RA clients and moving files

[Chris Newton]

Whoo :)  I should rush my little ass out and get a lottery ticket ASAP... 
cause, so far, I've been lucky 3 times today! :)

  Thanks Carter :)

Chris

>===== Original Message From "Carter Bullard" <carter at qosient.com> =====
>Hey Chris,
>   Ra should have handled it properly, but now that I look
>at the code, we do the stat() after the fopen(,"a+"), which
>means that you moved the file between two system calls.
>Probability < 0.0001.  So it was your lucky day ;o)
>
>   We should do the stat before the fopen() call,
>so I'll rework it for the new release.  If I come up with
>a fix today, I'll send you a patch.
>
>Carter
>
>Carter Bullard
>QoSient, LLC
>300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
>New York, New York  10022
>
>carter at qosient.com
>Phone +1 212 588-9133
>Fax   +1 212 588-9134
>http://qosient.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Newton [mailto:newton at unb.ca]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:13 AM
>To: Carter Bullard
>Subject: RA clients and moving files
>
>
>Hi Carter... does RA perform the same as Argus, when it comes to moving
>the
>file it has been writing to?  I have ra setup to read from a remote
>argii, and
>dump to a local file called argus.out.  I got this message just a while
>ago:
>
> ra[5208]: ArgusWriteNewLogfile(/flowlogs/argus.out, 0x806b4e0) stat
>error No
>such file or directory
>
> And, RA died...  my script that starts ra, automatically restarted ra.
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>Chris
>
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>Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
>Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
>newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)

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Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)