Re: [Summary-Talk] Endless Log Download

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is almost certainly a problem with the FTP server, not with
Summary. Summary will download whatever the FTP server sends to it. If
the FTP server continues to send data, Summary will continue
downloading. If the FTP server stops sending data, Summary will stop the
download.

The exact symptoms you describe would be what an FTP server running on
OS X that was written using the Carbon API would do (because of an Apple
bug in their Carbon support). For example, the FTP server included with
WebSTAR would do this.

Jason


Lyn wrote:
> 
> When automatically performing an FTP log download (incremental)
> Summary will attempt to download the same log for hours on end. The
> downloaded log becomes huge (sometimes exceeding the disk capacity).
> Yet, the web server log is of normal (less than 5MB) size.
> 
> I've had this happen several times... all with one particular (very
> busy) domain on an Apache server. Never had this problem with other
> web logs (less busy domains) on the same server. The log that has
> problems is always the current web log, not a previously-archived log.

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