Charlie ... your answer appears to have worked (via ssh to a virtual host)...there was no rc.lock file in existance
the lockfile option created a prompt asking if I wanted to delete the accept file which I wasnt expecting...so I didnt do it!!!
thanks to everyone for their help David
----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Summers charlie@lofcom.com To: David Kelly dkelly@ono.com; smartlist@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:58 PM Subject: Re:dist and accept not synchronized anymore
At 8:08 AM -0400 4/11/01, David Kelly is rumored to have typed:
I have a one large list running alongside several others that
has
ceased to synchronize the dist and accept files.... Is there anything I can check to see what is happening?
One can assume you broke the link between the two, probably by
editing one
of the files with some web-based editor that deletes and saves a
file, or by
using FTP to transfer one of the files in-and-out. I am assuming
the dist
file is the one that is being correctly updated, where the accept
file is the
one that "doesn't change" when a subscriber joins - to fix the
problem,
telnet into the machine, change directories to your list
directory, and type
at the prompt:
touch rc.lock; rm accept; ln dist accept; rm rc.lock
If things aren't where they should be, you can't access your
list
directory, you don't know what I mean by telnet, or you are
dependant on some
bizarre web-based control panel to operate your list, you will
need to
contact tech support for your hosting service. (Nothing personal,
I just
don't know whether you're running this on a machine you control,
or a shared
virtual machine.)
Charlie
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