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   Message 2,155 of 2,762   
   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   
      
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