Have seen -1 before. A corrupt file is likely. Am only guessing, but
was the file closed when the system came down? MSG files develop
problems when they are not closed properly. A routine to rebuild them
at start up is a common practice for prevention.
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:31:58 -0600 (Central Standard Time), "Paul H.
Christidis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Fellow list members,
>
>This morning, after re-booting our HP3000 server, one of our background
>jobs (third party spooler) kept aborting. Some research identified the
>problem with a message file that had a negative 'eof' (See attached 'listf'
>output below).
>
>Any ideas as to what may cause such a condition?
>
>Regards
>Paul Christidis
><SYS>:lf spcop.ipc.netbase,2
>ACCOUNT= NETBASE GROUP= IPC
>
>FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
> SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
>
>SPCOP 16W VBM -1 4152 8 272 2 *
>
><SYS>:lf spcop.ipc.netbase,-3
>********************
>FILE: SPCOP.IPC.NETBASE
>
>FILE CODE : 0 FOPTIONS: BINARY,VARIABLE,NOCCTL,MSG
>BLK FACTOR: 8 CREATOR : MGR.NETBASE
>REC SIZE: 32(BYTES) LOCKWORD:
>BLK SIZE: 308(BYTES) SECURITY--READ : ANY
>EXT SIZE: 130(SECT) WRITE : ANY
>NUM REC: -1 APPEND : ANY
>NUM SEC: 272 LOCK : ANY
>NUM EXT: 2 EXECUTE : ANY
>MAX REC: 4152 **SECURITY IS ON
> FLAGS : NO ACCESSORS
>NUM LABELS: 0 CREATED : TUE, JAN 21, 1997, 10:48 AM
>MAX LABELS: 0 MODIFIED: MON, MAR 25, 2002, 12:22 AM
>DISC DEV #: 40 ACCESSED: MON, MAR 25, 2002, 7:58 AM
>SEC OFFSET: 0 LABEL ADDR: $00000121.$00129020
>VOLCLASS : MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:DISC
>
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