Posting application exits

[Jose Lerebours]

Don Coleman wrote:
> FPv5.0.13, Windows 2000 SP4 client, Windows 2003 Server
> 
> I have a posting application which posts data received by a separate socket
> to socket application.  The posting application starts at 1:35AM via Windows
> Scheduled Tasks.  Overnight this posting application frequently exits with
> no error message (filepro) or any other message and has to be manually
> restarted (when someone notices).  The frequency of this app. exiting can
> range from every 10 minutes (in the early AM hours) to an hour or more
> overnight, although I have seen it exit after posting just a few records as
> well (not the norm).  The later into the AM we get the longer it seems to
> run, and by the time it is 8:00AM or so it will generally run w/o exiting
> for the remainder of the day until I have it automatically exit @ 11:50PM
> for system maintenance.  
> 
> Can anyone provide a suggestion as to what to look/test for.  I just checked
> the Dr. Watson log.  Last entry was 10/10/08 (several).  The times noted did
> not span a time when my app. exited.  In fact, one of the times noted in the
> Dr. Watson log (exception error) was a time when my app. had exited prior to
> this log entry and my app. had not yet been restarted.  Nothing there as far
> as I see.
> 

Couple of things:

1) You have auto-update ON and it reboots your server upon 
download/install of any update it finds

2) You may have a spam/anti-virus application running which may 
terminate process.  Possibly, this application kills open processes to 
download its own update ... Some can be configured to do daily updates 
as well ... not sure of the option have it reboot ...

3) Win/firewall may be keeping your application from processing. Will it 
  be required to add an exception in your windows firewall?

4) You mention socket to socket - Is there a 2nd server involved and is 
it possible that this other server is at fault?

Regards,


Jose Lerebours
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