Re: [Summary-Talk] Endless Log Download

[Jim Galvin <spinjim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try FTP in passive mode. I don't know what changed in OS X (or maybe
my host) or when but I have noticed if it is not in passive it just
sits there and grinds away. This seams to fix the problem across the
board.

Jim

On 9/27/05, Lyn <lyn@nowdata.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >--
> >Jason@Summary.Net
> >--
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> >     -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets
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