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-----Original Message-----
From: CLX-User DL6RAI <dujdkih@mail.dy.fi>
To: zsquudbl.omajytj@gsi.gov.uk <rdm.kxoamkb@canon.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Annoucement problem.
>Hello Max and Alex and other interested listeners!
>
>>
>> "The Cluster Computer is going down for a CPU Fan replacement. Sorry!
It
>> Will be down for about 5-10 minutes."
>>
>
>I just nailed the problem down to overly long announcements. I have not
>found where exactly the limit is but an announcement message with 121
>characters or more perfectly crashes the usr_req process. It crashes
even
>at the moment when the announcement is made and later, when CLX was
>restarted, always when someone catches that specific announcement when
>doing a SHOW/ANNOUNCEMENTS.
>
>I got curious when I read in Max's data into my test installation and
>first it would not crash with SHOW/ANNOUNCEMENTS. However, when I did
>a SHOW/ANNOUNCEMENTS/50 it did.
>
>Thanks for your help on this. We are trying to find a fix. Max, you
better
>send shorter announcements - you actually are part of the problem!
>
>73 Ben, DL6RAI
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