impossible size of whitelist whiteclnt.dccw in dcc-1.3.95

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:51:15PM +0000, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > From: Gary Mills <mills@cc.umanitoba.ca>
> 
> > I believe I've seen this problem in earlier versions than dcc-1.3.95
> > as well.  Apparently, if whiteclnt.dccw is absent, `dccm' is unable to
> > create one.  It logs messages like this:
> >
> >   Sep 15 13:30:08 setup01 dccm[7407]: [ID 702911 mail.error] unlink(whiteclnt.dccx): No such file or directory
> >   Sep 15 13:30:08 setup01 dccm[7407]: [ID 702911 mail.error] rename(whiteclnt.dccx, whiteclnt.dccw): No such file or directory
> >   Sep 15 13:30:08 setup01 dccm[7407]: [ID 702911 mail.error] impossible size of whitelist whiteclnt.dccw: 42108
> >   Sep 15 13:30:08 setup01 dccm[7407]: [ID 702911 mail.notice] 1.3.95 listening to inet:3331 with /usr/local/dcc
> 
> There is an intermittent problem in (re)creating the main whiteclnt.dccw
> when dccm first starts.
> 
> I have a fix it for the next release.

Ah, excellent.

> However, I think those error message may not matter.
> 
> > Afterwards, there's no whiteclnt.dccw file.
> 
> Are you sure whiteclnt.dccw does not appear within a few minutes?

I'm not certain, but I don't think so.

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