RE: [Summary-Talk] Logs not working all the time

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/2/04 4:04 PM Nitai @ ComputerOil (nitai@computeroil.com) wrote:

>Downloaded 6,740 files, 3,588K transferred, 477,016K on disk, in 19:19. 2 
>download errors. Can't fix date on old copy of file.On 
>'ftp.computeroil.com/knecht-vision.log_2004Oct31.gz'.

There is clearly something going wrong with the log downloading. That 
error message, "Can't fix date on old copy of file.", indicates that 
Summary gave up when downloading two log files because of internal 
errors. That error suggests that Summary downloaded some early version of 
the log, but is failing to download more recent additions to the log file.

I have been looking into what could cause that error, and I have come up 
with two possibilities. If Summary is getting run as two different users 
at different times, that could create permissions problems, which could 
cause this error. You should double check that all of the log files are 
owned by the user Summary is running as and have similar permissions.

The other possibility is that there might be a bug in Summary related to 
the recent switch in daylight savings time. In this case the problem 
should clear up the next time your logs are rotated if you manually 
delete the log files that are affected. That will cause Summary to 
re-download the affected logs, and new logs which are not created near to 
the time change should not be affected. This seems the more likely 
possibility, even though I have been unable to recreate this problem here 
as of yet.

Jason

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