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Conference forty2::mailbus

Title:MAILBUS - Message Router and its Gateways
Notice:Kit Copy Utility - 100.1, Problems - 5.*, Kit Support - 103.1
Moderator:FORTY2::YUILLE
Created:Thu Jun 11 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3209
Total number of notes:7125

3174.0. "bad MRX$INIT.DAT" by GIDDAY::JOYCE (Andy Joyce - Digital CSC Sydney) Wed Mar 05 1997 00:13

    
    MRX V2.3-004
    
    Customer could not start MRX after system reboot.  Errors about
    writing zeros to control block (implying bad checkpoint file) and
    MRX$GATEWAY failing immeadiately with "invalid logical name".
    
    It turns out that the root cause of these errors was a "bad"
    MRX$INIT.DAT - although the file was okay so far as RMS
    was concerned ($ANAL/RMS showed no errors) none of the parameters
    had any values!  When a version of this file was restored from
    backup MRX started okay.
    
    Customer now wants to know what could have caused MRX$INIT.DAT to
    get into this state?
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Andy
    CSC Sydney
    
    
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3174.1ACISS2::LENNIGDave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYOWed Mar 05 1997 10:304
    Did you check the dates on the 'bad' file?
    Sounds like someone created a new/empty one.
    
    Dave