🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 28 Jan 1992 13:02:50 +0200 Lawrence S. Kalman said:
>Once again, I am bringing to the attention of one and all, a Mailer problem
>which I reported on several previous occasions but still has not been resolved.
>
>During an almost three hour period yesterday (precisely 02:58:18), our Mailer
>(R2.08) was spewing out "Mailer waiting for work" messages on its console.
>During this period, 3,065,530 lines were written to the console, or an average
>of about 286 lines per second.  Not all the lines were "Mailer waiting for
>work" messages; in fact, approximately 600 mail items were also handled during
>the period.  But Mailer never entered a wait state after processing an item;
>it resumed looping.
>
>
>Am I the only one experiencing this problem?  I have not seen reports of this
>phenomenon from anyone else.
>
>- Lawrence

Lawrence et al.,

First and foremost, let me apologize for the *size* of this file; but
below is the 'first' time I have been bit (that I know of) by this
'same ole looping problem' ....

Below is (almost in its entirety) the console log from this morning:


 02/25/92 22:48:20  MAILER001I VM Network MAILER R2.08
* 04/10/91 09:50:00
 Copyright (c) 1982,1987 Columbia University
 02/25/92 22:48:20  MAILER076I Copyright (c) 1989 Princeton University
 02/25/92 22:48:20  MAILER011I 01628496 bytes of stack space.
 02/25/92 22:48:20  MAILER070I Freeing half of stack for CMS
 02/25/92 22:48:20  MAILER011I 00814248 bytes of stack space.
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI075I THISNODE = 'MONTCOLB'
* several startup lines deleted ...
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'TRYRSCS ' loaded at 02E798
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'DEFRT   ' loaded at 02B040
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'BSMTP   ' loaded at 02A1C0
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'BITNET  ' loaded at 029E48
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'LOCAL   ' loaded at 02BAB8
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'RSMAIL  ' loaded at 02DB38
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'BSMTP   ' loaded at 02A1C0
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'TRYRSCS ' loaded at 02E798
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAISTI018I User exit 'RSCSVER ' loaded at 02D988
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER004I MAILER running on MONTCOLB
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER011I 00440309 bytes of stack space.
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER069I Initializing trace table
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER011I 00374773 bytes of stack space.
 02/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER005I Initialization complete.

102/25/92 22:48:25  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 RDR FILE 9662 TRANSFERRED FROM RSCSNET
 02/25/92 22:48:59  MAIGTS009I Received file 9662 sender: MAILER
* from: MONTCOLB MAILER
 02/25/92 22:48:59  MAIGTS035U File is not a PUNCH file.
 02/25/92 22:48:59  MAIRTS028U Error loop detected.
 02/25/92 22:48:59  MAIRTS037U Another network mailer sent an invalid file.
 02/25/92 22:48:59  MAIRTS029I Returning file to MARK     AT  MONTCOLA
 PUN FILE 9669  TO  MAILER   COPY 001   NOHOLD
 0001 FILE  PURGED
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAIGTS009I Received file 9669 sender: MAILER
* from: MONTCOLB MAILER
 0001 FILE  CHANGED
 0001 FILE  ORDERED
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAIBLS043I 0001 recipient blocks.
 PUN FILE 9671  TO  RSCSNET  COPY 001   NOHOLD
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAIBSM034X Mail sent to MAILER   at MONTCOLA
 0001 FILE  PURGED
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From   MAILER@MONTCOLB: *Mail sent to MAILER   at MONTCOLA
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 22:49:00  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 22:49:05  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From   MAILER@MONTCOLA: *Mail sent to MARK     at MONTCOLA
 02/25/92 22:49:07  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 22:49:21  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK312W- BACKUPC IS STARTING BACKUP OF
* YOUR 191 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK319W- BACKUPC COMPLETED BACKUP OF
* YOUR 191 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK312W- BACKUPC IS STARTING BACKUP OF
* YOUR 193 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK319W- BACKUPC COMPLETED BACKUP OF
* YOUR 193 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 02/25/92 23:54:15  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 23:54:15  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 23:54:15  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 ....
 ....
 46K lines deleted (all == to above/below lines)(time: 5min 30sec)
 ....  NOTE: There were **NO** other lines interspersed with these
 ....
 02/25/92 23:59:45  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 23:59:45  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 02/25/92 23:59:45  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK312W- BACKUPC IS STARTING BACKUP OF
* YOUR 191 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 02/25/92 23:59:45  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK319W- BACKUPC COMPLETED BACKUP OF
* YOUR 191 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 02/25/92 23:59:46  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK312W- BACKUPC IS STARTING BACKUP OF
* YOUR 193 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 02/25/92 23:59:46  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.
 From  BACKUPC@MONTCOLB: BACK319W- BACKUPC COMPLETED BACKUP OF
* YOUR 193 DISK.
 DMKMSG057W BACKUPC  not receiving; disconnected
 02/25/92 23:59:47  MAILER006I MAILER waiting for work.



 TIME IS 00:00:00 EST WEDNESDAY 02/26/92

 LOGMSG - 22:47:44 EST TUESDAY 02/25/92
 *
 * CMS USERS: Please LOGOFF when you are done!
 *::::::::::::Please keep an eye on your SPOOL files; any spool
 *::::::::::::files older than 2 weeks (14 days) will be purged.
 *
 RECONNECTED AT 08:14:02 EST WEDNESDAY 02/26/92

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The invalid file message is from the Mailer Console log that I 'auto-
ship' back to 'my cpu' and 'my acct'. VM had just been IPLed.

The BACKUPC messages are from our (now defunct) CMS Backup system.

The '*' in col1 is from lines I split to 'get it all into 80 chars'.

We are an SP5 shop if that helps/makes any difference!

/Mark