[Veritas-bu] linger value and file shrinkage on slackware

Hi Larry,

I have tried to another network interface for the Backup and I didn't get
the "linger" message, but I did get a message about another file shrinking.
This file that shrunk hasn't been touched since April 30th !! This file is
around 7MB.

Thanks for your reply.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Monday, 13 May 2002 12:21 PM
To: Andrew Wilkin
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] linger value and file shrinkage on slackware


Andrew Wilkin writes:
> Hello Group,
> 
> I have two questions both regarding a client of slackware, kernel build
> 2.2.16.
> 
> I get a message saying "Could not set linger value on socket. Errno = 22:
> Invalid argument". Where is the linger value set and what's it's purpose ?

Not that it helps much, but man 7 socket explains linger.

> 
> The second question "... from client lotusblossom: ERR - File
> /raid0_d1/esrixfer/cadtest/agdpencad/aat.adf shrunk by 9099680 bytes,
> padding with zeros." This backup had occurred outside office hours with no
> processing taking place at the time of the backup. What could cause the
file
> to shrink?

Usually it happens when the file size changes between the beginning
and end of the backup of that directory.

I saw a tech note which mentioned compression, and interestingly the
example referred to Lotus Notes.

Is this file over 2GB?


> 
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> 
> Andrew Wilkin 
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