Re: Bad packets
  By: Alan Ianson to Deon George on Fri May 29 2020 10:11 pm

 DG>> I'm certain something isnt right, but its not consistently
 DG>> re-producable... (that I've worked out yet anyway...)

OK, here is another example. I have a perl hook that responds to a test message
post. Folks only saw the perl hook post, not the original from 3/110.

3/110 sent a test message, which was sent to 10+ links, this is mine:

1 02:31:37  Start tossing...
7 02:31:37  pkt: /fido/mailer/in.tmp/b4373309.tos [21:3/110]
E 02:31:38  Responding to test in [FSX_GEN].
2 02:31:38  Reading dupes of FSX_GEN
...
M 02:31:38  pktFile /fido/mailer/out.tmp/d28ac803.pkt created for [21:2/116]
...
4 02:31:38  echo area FSX_GEN - 1 msgs
...
M 02:31:38  packFile /fido/mailer/out.015/d28ac803.su0 created for [21:2/116
via 21:2/116]
7 02:31:38  Packing for 21:2/116 Alterant, d28ac803.pkt > d28ac803.su0
6 02:31:38  cmd: zip -9 -j -q /fido/mailer/out.015/d28ac803.su0
/fido/mailer/out.tmp/d28ac803.pkt
...

(This is the original test message.), then:

1 02:31:38  Start scanning...
1 02:31:38  EchoTossLogFile not found -> Scanning all areas
2 02:31:38  Reading dupes of FSX_GEN
...
M 02:31:38  pktFile /fido/mailer/out.tmp/d28ac803.pkt created for [21:2/116]
...
M 02:31:38  packFile /fido/mailer/out.015/d28ac80a.su0 created for [21:2/116
via 21:2/116]
7 02:31:38  Packing for 21:2/116 Alterant, d28ac803.pkt > d28ac803.su0
6 02:31:38  cmd: zip -9 -j -q /fido/mailer/out.015/d28ac803.su0
/fido/mailer/out.tmp/d28ac803.pkt
...
D 02:31:38      exported:    1
E 02:31:38  echo area FSX_GEN - 1 msgs

Notice that packet d28ac803.pkt was used twice, and went into the same archive
d28ac80a.su0 for the same node 2/116. I'm assuming the second pkt file
overwrote the first one.

hpt is invoked from a script that calls "hpt toss", then "hpt scan".

Why is the same packet number between two different runs?

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