problem with two daemons writing to one file

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Tu,
  There is a situation where argus can find a configuration
file that you are not aware of, and then opening the same
output file twice.  This is fixed in the newer test release,

ftp://qosient.com/dev/argus-2.0/argus-2.0.6.beta.12.tar.gz

Carter




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Tu Nguyen
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:43 PM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: problem with two daemons writing to one file
>
>
> Hi All:
>  I am moving argus2.0.5 to a faster, more powerful Dell
> machine and running into a very peculiar problem. Just
> wonder if anyone has seen this problem before.
> On the old machine, when starting argus,  there are three processes of
> argus running and one writing to the output file. On the new
> machine, there are four processes of argus and two of them
> writing to the output file. This makes impossible to cut off
> the output file.  Argus is started exactly on both
> machines.
>  Thanks in advance for any help or pointer.
>
> -
> Tu Nguyen
> nguyen at ucalgary.ca
>