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    From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to All on Sun Mar 3 00:37:55 2024
    Hello All!

    Nope, I had to rerun a block of updates to try and trace why the program was locking up.

    Finally traced to a Rules file for POLITICS that look fairly old and for some reason program got in a loop when it could not read beyond the end of file.
    One problem was the wrong attributes for it but after that was fixed is still carried on looping so have to "assume" that there was some very bad data in the
    file so deleted it.

    Needless to say, now all updates have concluded correctly.

    May have to add additional tests after reading a record to cover possibly security issues and no not had to do that for all other application I have written although the bbs system is run a a high security test level (lot more checks) so that the system is always protected against possible hackers etc. The security is so high it does not trap ALL possible error codes.
    Must remember to look into this closely but not know - I am tired.

    and yes this problem had been running a few months - hence the duplicate runs on updates and even worse then the trace file is over 1 GB - well over takes 30+ minutes to try and read it in to a text editor.

    For reference, during a 24 hour cycle it is below 25K.

    Just thought you might want to know :)

    Vincent

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Vincent Coen on Sun Mar 3 21:56:49 2024
    On 03 Mar 2024 at 12:37a, Vincent Coen pondered and said...

    Hello All!

    Nope, I had to rerun a block of updates to try and trace why the program was locking up.


    Just thought you might want to know :)

    thanks for the info and all your hard work :)

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  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to Vincent Coen on Mon Mar 4 20:50:51 2024
    Hello Vincent,

    03 Mar 24 00:37, you wrote to All:

    Hello All!

    Nope, I had to rerun a block of updates to try and trace why the
    program was locking up.

    Finally traced to a Rules file for POLITICS that look fairly old and
    for some reason program got in a loop when it could not read beyond
    the end of file. One problem was the wrong attributes for it but after that was fixed is still carried on looping so have to "assume" that
    there was some very bad data in
    the
    file so deleted it.

    Needless to say, now all updates have concluded correctly.

    May have to add additional tests after reading a record to cover
    possibly security issues and no not had to do that for all other application I have written although the bbs system is run a a high security test level (lot more checks) so that the system is always protected against possible hackers etc. The security is so high it
    does not trap ALL possible error codes. Must remember to look into
    this closely but not know - I am tired.

    and yes this problem had been running a few months - hence the
    duplicate runs on updates and even worse then the trace file is over 1
    GB - well over takes 30+ minutes to try and read it in to a text
    editor.

    For reference, during a 24 hour cycle it is below 25K.

    Just thought you might want to know :)

    great Vincent! Thanks!

    Regards,
    --
    dp

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