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echo: binkd
to: NICK ANDRE
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2018-06-17 16:37:00
subject: Random crashing

17 Jun 18 14:49, Kees van Eeten wrote to you:

 KE>  Why does this happen to ypu and apparently not to others. I have been
 KE>  experimenting with DBridge for some time and I was surprised at the
 KE> way you trigger DBdrige for outgoing mail.

 KE>  Under common circumstances binkd scans the outgoing directory every
 KE> minit, and initiates transfers for outgoing mail. To me it looks like
 KE> you also refresh the config files, or its timestamp, to initiate a
 KE> mail scan.

 KE>  There should be no harm in what you are doing, but on my system .e.g.
 KE> the configfile timestamp is only triggerd, when I change a config
 KE> parameter and once a day when a new nodelist is generated.

 KE>  So in general you may be refreshing the configfile more often as
 KE> others.

I have seen binkd to exit, not crash, in some rare case when config changes. I
don't know why.

Have you been running binkd with maximum logging?

'Tommi

--- Binkd 1.1a-99 (May 16 2018 21:09:38/CYGWIN_NT-10.0)
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