Re: Hermes logs

From	druck <news@druck.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.networking
Subject	Re: Hermes logs
Date	2024-10-05 02:11 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<vdq3ou$f81g$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 04/10/2024 11:22, Richard Porter wrote:
> I've just had a look at the log for one Send account. It contains normal
> interactions up to 20 Sep., followed by "Failed to connect..." messages up
> to:
> [30 Sep 2024 22:41:52] Connecting to <server>
> [00][00][00][00][00][00][00][00][00]...
> 
> 714,745 nulls. Yes that's ~0.7 million nulls in all!
> 
> ...[00][00][00][00][00[03 Oct 2024 14:50:05] Failed to connect to <server>
> 
> Then it went back to "Connecting to <server>"
> "Failed to connect to <server>".
> 
> All I can say is WTF? Would the nulls have come from the server? I haven't
> seen this on any other log.

Log corruptions are normally one of two things, either a crash causing a 
write of a partially filled buffer, or another application starts 
writing something to the open log file handle, as RISC OS has no 
protection against that sort of ting.

---druck

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