On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote:
> What does the following syslog errors mean? Should I be concerned about
> it/do something to fix it?
> 
> Aug 13 00:56:10 ivideo sendbackup[3608]: index tee cannot write [Connection
> reset by peer]
> Aug 14 01:00:43 vision sendbackup[1630]: index tee cannot write [Connection
> reset by peer]
> Aug 15 00:55:16 vision sendbackup[3042]: index tee cannot write [Connection
> reset by peer]

Don't know why it is happening, but here is what I think is happening.

The data from your dumper program, dump/ufsdump/tar/???, passes through
a program that duplicates the entire data set and sends each through a
separate data stream (pipes/sockets/...).  Similar to the unix "tee" program.

One stream goes to the holding disk/tape drive.

The duplicate stream goes to the undumper program to generate a table
of contents.  This TOC is massaged and becomes the index for the dump.

For some reason this second stream is unable to write its output (or
temporary files).  This could be a permission problem, a wrong path
with missing directories, a full file system or ???

HTH
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