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- From: benchoff@GroupW.cns.vt.edu (Phil Benchoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Problems with Unix gopherd
- Message-ID: <9813@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:37:17 GMT
- References: <9795@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
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- As usual, the network comes through with a solution.....
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- #From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
- #Subject: Re: Problems with Unix gopherd
- #Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- #
- #In article <9795@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> you write:
- #> ................ When a client connects and gopherd decides to rebuild
- #> the .cache, there is a delay of about 30 seconds. ..................
- #
- #You may have thought of this, but just in case:
- #
- #Are you sure you don't have any lurking dot files in the gopher
- #directory? Particularly large ones?
- #
- #I was bit by my mistake of hiding a large file containing raw data in a
- #".something" file under a gopher directory. The gopher server tried to
- #scan the file as if it were a .links file every time it rebuilt the
- #.cache file. The delays were a lot longer than 30 seconds in my
- #case...
- #
- #-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-
- Sure enough, I was keeping my gopher log in the gopher root as .logfile.
- I moved it elsewhere and the problem seems to be cured.
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- Thanks for the help Prentiss!
- Phil
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