[IRCServices] unhappy restart quirks with 5.0.9

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri Feb 14 21:44:51 PST 2003


>> >Firstly, on an /msg operserv shutdown, services SQUITs from the ircd - but
>> >then on almost all occasions the binary continues to run, and will not be
>> >killed by any signal short of a KILL (-9).

     Just for the record, I've found and fixed this problem--thanks for the
report.  This should also fix the problem of nick identifies not being
saved to disk.

>In performing the xml-export from the ircservices webserver I encountered
>several difficulties: when downloading from the server using Mozilla or IE
>, the 1076KB file was consistently truncated by ~1700 lines/43KB (the DB
>is ~800 users, ~10 channels).  When downloading locally on the server
>using wget in the server's shell, an arbritary big chunky block of the
>file (lines 17015-20769 out of 37962, in the particular instance i'm
>looking at atm) was excitingly mangled.

     This sounds like a bug I fixed way back in the alpha releases.  I'll
take a look into it.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/