[Orca-users] Re: Nightly "did exist and is now gone

[Børge Kjeldstad]

--- In orca-users at yahoogroups.com, Blair Zajac <blair at ...> wrote:

 >

 > Douglas Valkenaar wrote:

 > >

 > > At 11:15 AM 11/26/01, you wrote:

 > > >Douglas Valkenaar wrote:

 > > > >

 > > > > At 10:16 PM 11/24/01, you wrote:

 > > > > >Blair,

 > > > > >

 > > > > > Just to confirm what Allen Eastwood said with

 > > > > >regards to getting the nightly "did exist and is now

 > > > > >gone" email messages. I ran orca from withing a

 > > > > >crontab and the messages go away. I'm running orca

 > > > > >under Solaris 8 with SEToolKit version 3.2.1.

 > > > >

 > > > > I'm sorry but I'm not sure exactly what's being suggested

 > > > here. Restart

 > > > > orca every few minutes within crontab and only run once? Could 
you let

 > > > me

 > > > > know the details and I'll give it a try.

 > > > >

 > > > > Sorry if I'm a little dense today - quite stuffed with turkey!!

 > > >

 > > >Yes, just add a cron entry to run Orca every hour or so and make 
sure you

 > > >use the -o command line option so that Orca quits when it's done. You

 > > >don't want to spawn an infinite number of Orca's over time.

 > >

 > > I presume that's *instead* of running the perpetual 'orca'. If 
that's the

 > > case, isn't this less efficient? I presume so and that this is 
simply a

 > > short-term work-around until one of us can fix the root problem.

 >

 > That's right. It is less efficient and a work around. The other solution

 > is to comment out the email setting in Orca's configuration file.

 >

 > Best,

 > Blair

 >

Was this problem ever fixed? I am getting 3 of these messages every 
night now at about midnight. This started to happen after I had the 
server restarted. The server then ran a few hours before I started Orca. 
I am running orca-snapshot-r526 with Procallator on Fedora Core 4.


I found this problem mentioned in the FAQ number 2.4 on the Orca 
webpages, but no solution to the problem is mentioned there.


Thank you. Børge
(PS. I first posted this message on the old list at Yahoo. Do not know 
if it was automatically forwarde here)