| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
Hi,
A customer had problems installing a product (SCA) - the installation
failed - because the FCS Server had taken out a lock on the
NETPROXY.DAT file.
I did some testing by connecting to an A1 FC from Teamlinks, and as
soon as I had established a connection, the NETPROXY.DAT was permanently
locked by the FCS Server process, and it seemed to stay locked even
though I did a disconnect from within Teamlinks.
Is this the way the FCS is supposed to work? The workaround was to
stop the FCS while they installed the product, but I was not able to
explain to them why the FCS had to take out a lock on the NETPROXY.DAT
(although I'm sure there is a perfectly logical explanation for this
......).
I have flagged this issue in the SCA_V2_BUGS conference because the
SCA installation procedure should manage such situations anyway, I
think.
Just wondering ......
Bjarne
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| 3866.1 | Not nice.\ | IOSG::STANDAGE | Wed Feb 09 1994 15:47 | 13 | |
Bjarne,
This is not the only datafile that the FCS keeps hold of. You'll
probably also see what it continuously has SYSUAF.DAT too.
I believe this was done for performance reasons more than anything
else...
Kevin.
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| 3866.2 | Yea, I kind of thought that ..... | OSLACT::BJARNEC_P | The last boat left without me ..... | Thu Feb 10 1994 08:40 | 16 |
Thanks Kevin.
My understanding is that the SCA installation tries to take out an
exclusive lock and this, of course, will not work when another lock has
already been taken out on the file.
As I mentioned in .0, I have entered a note in the SCA_V2_BUGS
conference pointing out the situation to the SCA people - maybe they
can modify the way the product is being installed to allow for such a
situation.
Thanks,
Bjarne
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