Re: what's this?

• Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:49:26 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• cc: moo-cows.PARC@xerox.com
• In-Reply-to: "The Ex-archwizard's message of \"Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:04:17 PST\" <Pine.SOL.3.91.960327105244.5702A-100000@nexus.polaris.net>``^P```"

The Ex-archwizard writes:
> No reason it should have shut down, and no moo.db.new file either, so a 
> dump wasn't performed.
> I lost a couple hours of work, and would appreciate any help in avoiding 
> such situations in the future.

The server never shuts down *of its own accord* without trying to write a log
file.  I've only seen a few ways for this to happen:
  -- somebody executed a `kill -9' command on the server process,
  -- a bug in the operating system caused the process to be killed without
     notification,
  -- your server executable is resident on an NFS file server and the server
     machine lost contact with that server while trying to swap in a page of
     the server, leaving it little choice but to kill the process without
     notification, or
  -- the machine lost power suddenly.

Good luck, and remember to make backups.

	Pavel

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