In article <4ec03ecad7antispam@xxxxxxxxxx>, Frank de Bruijn <antispam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article <4ec0123bcbfreelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Martin <freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In article <4ec007e16fantispam@xxxxxxxxxx>, > > Frank de Bruijn <antispam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [Snip] > > AS had been running OK for at least 24 hours when suddenly it went > > bang. Nothing had been moved or re-initialised. It seems to have > > happened at the start of a run, as the log just shows ... > > 07 Mar 18:09:04 100 Starting run - first 1 box(es) only > > 07 Mar 18:09:04 100 Box 1: Avisoft > > Commencing at Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:09:04 > > Rules file: <AntiSpam$Choices>.Rules > > Transport format: POPstar > > 07 Mar 18:09:04 040 No suitable block list zone at line 4080 > Curious sequence of entries for one logfile. Do you have the same file > set as application log and mailbox log or did you merge those bits > manually? Not knowingly. I do have the mailbox log file set to AntiSpam - seemed logical at the time. But I suppose if that is also used for the Application log, they would be merged. <rummages in !Help> Silly me. I have now changed the mailbox one to split them. Will probably look more normal to you now! > It's very strange that this happened without any manual interference > from you. The module reads the info into memory when it's loaded or > reinitialised[1] and doesn't even use its Settings file after that. > > > RMKilling NSQ and relaunching AntiSpam should fix it, > > > because that would run the !Run file in !AntiSpam.Resources.!NSQ. > > That will help, but if it happens again, is there anything I could do > > to help diagnose why? > Difficult. NSQ doesn't do any logging (mainly because I didn't want to > slow it down). I could ask for the output of some of the diagnostic > commands, but I can already predict what they would show if it did > happen again. Still, maybe the result of the following sequence of > commands in a taskwindow could tell me something: > *show nsq* > *show antispam* > *nsqcache -s > *nsqcache -v > *nsqcache -a > *nsqcache -vd > If anything strange happened to NSQ's environment variables, the last > command probably wouldn't produce anything (it needs the file mentioned > in the NSQ$GTemplate variable). *IF* it ever happens again, I will do those commands and send the results to you. Martin -- Martin Avison using a British Iyonix running RISC OS 5 and the Pluto mail and newsreader