Re: No DOVENET for a few days...
By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Jan 22 2023 09:45 am
Hey DM,
So I noticed it being quiet in Dovenet for a few days, so I checked my logs and discovered mail was not flowing to me.
I noticed this in the log:
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET No new messages.
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Call-out: VERT
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qwk already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw0 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw1 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw2 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw3 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw4 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw5 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw6 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw7 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw8 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw9 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Call-out to: VERT returned 1
And sure enough...
deon@d-11-1:/srv/docker/sbbs/data$ ls -al VERT.qw?
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 2022 VERT.qw0
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 07:13 VERT.qw1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 09:26 VERT.qw2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 17 16:41 VERT.qw3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 05:53 VERT.qw4
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 09:03 VERT.qw5
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 11:16 VERT.qw6
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 13:30 VERT.qw7
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 19:43 VERT.qw8
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 21:56 VERT.qw9
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 1 2022 VERT.qwk
After I deleted those, I got mail again :)
So that I understand, there can only be 10 qwk files in flight? And once all 10 are used, no more mail flows until there is a spare slot?
That's the way qnet-ftp.js would work, yeah. It assumed that sbbs would import those QW* files, but SBBS just ignores 0-byte QW* files, so I see how that would be a problem.
Not sure why I had zero sized files laying around - perhaps it would be good to detect those and delete them automatigically?
I just committed a change to qnet-ftp.js so it'll overwrite QW* files if they're 0-byte files.
I went through my Jan 18 log to see if I could see why VERT.qw4 was left as a zero size file, and there was no errors that I could see.
Jan 18 04:53:39 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Downloading QWK Packet: VERT.qwk Jan 18 04:53:52 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Downloaded VERT.qw4 (2.0KB) successfully
...
Jan 18 04:53:58 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Finished Importing QWK Network Packet from VERT: (2 msgs) in 1 seconds (2 msgs/sec), 0 errors
, 0 dupes
(The 1hr difference in the log and the file timestamp will be because of summer time).
Any other reason why they were left around?
Not sure. Perhaps just timeouts (due to issues on the server side) while downloading. Likely there's another issue lingering as to why those 0 byte packets were left around in the first place.
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