Re: [Summary-Talk] Endless Log Download

[Lyn <lyn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

WebSTAR? Who uses that? ;-)

Actually, it's RUMPUS 4.2.1 (latest version). I'll approach their
technical support regarding this issue also.

- Lyn

At 6:26 PM -0400 9/27/05, Jason Linhart wrote:
>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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