chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) (03/13/90)
The following uucp maps were received at chinacat trashed:
u.can.1 <Mar.12.10.55.18.1990.21293@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.can.2 <Mar.12.10.55.51.1990.21380@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.deu.3 <Mar.12.11.02.53.1990.22404@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.dmk.1 <Mar.12.11.03.42.1990.22494@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.gbr.1 <Mar.12.11.09.33.1990.23231@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.gbr.3 <Mar.12.11.10.31.1990.23370@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.isl.1 <Mar.12.11.15.50.1990.24036@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.ca.3 <Mar.12.11.37.24.1990.26248@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.ca.4 <Mar.12.11.38.45.1990.26354@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.ga.2 <Mar.12.11.49.33.1990.27567@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.il.1 <Mar.12.11.50.43.1990.27682@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.ma.2 <Mar.12.11.54.16.1990.28110@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.ma.4 <Mar.12.11.55.36.1990.28269@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.mi.2 <Mar.12.11.59.31.1990.28760@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
u.usa.nc.1 <Mar.12.12.00.34.1990.28870@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
The symptom is that one or more newlines were inserted into these maps.
The only commonality I can see is that the insertions occur at word
boundaries -- never in the middle of a word. It is not long lines
triggering them.
The section of the path in common for all the bad maps is:
chinacat!bigtex!texsun!newstop!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!...!rutgers!pleasant
It is not obvious where the problem occurred. Of the 142 maps currently
on chinacat, some of the not-obviously-bad maps have visited sites in
this path. Here is the breakdown of which maps traversed which hops (only
those hops in the paths of >=5 bad maps are included):
possibly definately hop traversed
good maps bad maps by this map
127 15 pleasant -> rutgers
101 15 texsun -> bigtex
101 15 sun-barr -> newstop
101 15 newstop -> texsun
101 15 bigtex -> chinacat
60 15 cs.utexas.edu -> sun-barr
19 8 usc -> cs.utexas.edu
3 6 rutgers -> usc
By the way, when I say "bad", I mean that pathalias gave a syntax error, and
when I say "possibly good" I mean that pathalias didn't complain about it.
The particular errors I received here are:
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.1.Z", line 356: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.1.Z", line 457: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.can.2.Z", line 454: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.deu.3.Z", line 626: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.dmk.1.Z", line 1089: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.1.Z", line 1620: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.3.Z", line 1159: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.gbr.3.Z", line 1390: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.isl.1.Z", line 172: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.isl.1.Z", line 314: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.3.Z", line 1883: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.3.Z", line 632: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ca.4.Z", line 1871: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ga.2.Z", line 650: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.il.1.Z", line 166: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.il.1.Z", line 1910: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ma.2.Z", line 1093: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.ma.4.Z", line 74: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.mi.2.Z", line 500: syntax error
"/local/spool/uumaps/Maps/u.usa.nc.1.Z", line 581: syntax error
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Chip Rosenthal | Yes, you're a happy man and you're
chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG | a lucky man, but are you a smart
Unicom Systems Development, 512-482-8260 | man? -David Brombergneptune@eddie.mit.edu (Alan M. Steele) (03/14/90)
In article <1070@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > The following uucp maps were received at chinacat trashed: > [...] > It is not obvious where the problem occurred. I'm afraid these trashed maps came from rutgers. I received several of them directly from rutgers, others via paths that I know to be okay. -Alan Steele MIT EECS ECF Staff usenet@eddie.mit.edu ...!mit-eddie!usenet neptune@fenchurch.mit.edu
gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater) (03/22/90)
In article <707@ai.cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes: >In article <1070@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> Chip Rosenthal writes: > >>The section of the path in common for all the bad maps is: >> >> chinacat!bigtex!texsun!newstop!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!...!rutgers!pleasant > >The fifteen maps which Chip cites all arrived at cs.utexas.edu >just fine. They arrived bad here with a Path of: dgcad!aeras!sun!newstop!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!pleasant ................ -- Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary The impossible we understand right away - the obvious takes a little longer.