staff blogs

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1999-10-04

nugget [04-Oct-1999 @ 13:24]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 13:24 +00:00

:: 04-Oct-1999 13:31 (Monday) ::

It looks as if statsbox decided to be a bit mischievous this weekend
while dbaker and I were both out of town. Certainly nothing critical,
but it was a bit annoying. A strange set of circumstances deep within
a “shouldn’t happen” loop in the stats and logcopying code resulted in
last night’s stats run only incorporating 23 of the 24 logfiles from
the keymaster. Any blocks flushed from 3-Oct-1999 23:00 to 23:59 will
not be reflected in today’s stats.

These blocks will be processed as part of tonight’s run (but still as
3-Oct blocks, not 4-Oct). Sorry for the inconvenience. dbaker and I
are going to spend some time today hardening the log processing code
to ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.