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|    mark lewis to Alan Ianson    |
|    Problem tossing mail    |
|    05 Jan 19 06:24:56    |
       On 2019 Jan 05 00:46:42, you wrote to All:               AI> Message base locked (/bbbs/work/bbsrun.c exists), waiting...              i ran into something similar with another system the other day... after       manually cleaning up, i found out that i should have searched the logs more to       find out what caused those new outbound pkts to be left in the temp       directory... in my case, it was a routed netmail with files attached and the       files didn't arrive here so the tosser was erroring out and leaving everything       behind... instead of spending ""some time"" cleaning up the temp directory and       manually creating the flo files to carry those pkts to their proper       destination, i should have just removed that one netmail msg and let the tosser        run again and it would have completed its task...              i don't know how bbbs logs or if you are on *nix but i have increased my syslog        retention so i could have time to go back and hunt down anomalies days or       weeks later...              tldr; do the logs indicate why that file was left behind and the processing       didn't complete properly?              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Canned mackeral: It's a giant sardine and it's real gross. - Neekha       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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