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RE: immediate vs. periodic

#787
From: I am only an egg.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:07
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   >There is at least one oversight in the immediate job creation logic that
   >can cause messages to slip into the queue without getting processed by
   >an immedate job. This was discussed earlier this month on info-pmdf;
   >please check the original messages on this subject for details. This
   >will be fixed in the next release.
   >
   >It is also possible that your immediate jobs are dying without doing any
   >processing; you'd have to examine your logs to see if this is happening. It
   >is also possible that processing is happening but for some reason the
   >user's mail files are temporarily unavailable. This is a very frequent
   >event on some systems. Again, you'll have to check the logs to tell the
   >specifics. You can usually tell whether or not a message has received
   >some attention by the file name: names beginning with ZZ have not been
   >processed; names beginning with ZY have had one delivery attempt; names
   >beginning with ZX have had two, and so on.

     The logs look ok, no failed deliveries I can either see or don't
understand.  The files in question are ZZ's.  Must be the bug.  As long
as I know it isn't something silly I did and I can get aroud it I'm all
set.

     Thanks.

Chris J.
N.U.
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