Freechain Issue

[Doug Luurs]

That's what I was afraid of .. I was thinking the same thing .. We
have people here that do both
quite a bit.  That give me a place to start.

Thanks Nancy


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Nancy Palmquist<nlp at vss3.com> wrote:
> Walter,
>
> I ran across a problem like this on a *nix system when a user decided to
> use the CTRL-\ as an exit key.
>
> You can disable it in filepro with PFQUIT=OFF  - default is on.
>
> Also, use of the X in the corner of a windows screen, instead of a
> proper exit and corrupt the freechain.
>
> Training may be necessary to make sure exit is done properly.
>
> Nancy
>
>
>
> Walter Vaughan wrote:
>> Doug Luurs wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We switched to Linux from SCO about a month ago, and have encountered
>>> a strange error that
>>> Reoccurs 2 or 3 times a day with one file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> What kind of Linux? Puppy Dog Linux or CentOS? Just curious. You might
>> be running some
>> flakey filesystem.
>>
>>
>>> The file in question is quite large (5k per record / 875meg key). It
>>> does not delete records
>>> (only updates and adds them), yet when we add a new record, We get a
>>> "About to rebuild freechain"
>>> message (which is preformed), and then the file seems to be fine for 2
>>> or 3 hours, then the
>>> message will reoccurs, and has to be rebuild again.   Another thing
>>> about this file, I don't
>>> know if it is relevant or not, but it is the most heavily used file
>>> here. At any one moment,
>>> there can be 50 - 100 people using it.
>>>
>>> The input process has not changed since the move (not anything related
>>> to lookups anyway),
>>> so I am puzzled by this happening so often now.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else ever had this type of problem, and what was its
>>> solution (if there is one).
>>>
>>> Thanks all in advance
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes. But very rarely.
>> Solution? # freechain fileproFileName
>>
>>
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