[WriteLog] WL Failures

[Gary Ferdinand W2CS]

Thanks to all, and there were many more who didn't post on the reflector,
who assisted here.  We now seem to have it working. There was an imbedded
line in the INI files that seemed incomplete. Once deleted, all seems well.
We'll be far more careful in the future about how we populate logs, how we
edit INI files and so forth ;-)

A few shutdown/restarts from now I'm sure we'll be feeling confident.

I appreciate all the help. It's been incredible!

73,

Gary W2CS


> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Gary Ferdinand W2CS
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:48 AM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] WL Failures
>
>
>
> Perhaps someone can tell me what I'm screwing up here.
>
> We've got a 5-position multi/multi we're trying to get going.
> Following the
> excellent suggestions at k9jy.com, we've assigned one position to be a
> "server" (really a misnomer) position.  It owns the connection to the
> internet for spots. It is the position everyone else links to.
>
> Once things appeared to be working just fine, we set up a new contest
> matching the one we're about to work, logged nothing into it, and saved it
> as a base, or clean, copy.  Since there's much similar among positions, we
> also did the same with writelog.ini so we could get the window layout
> propagated.
>
> We then propagated both the ini file and the clean log file to
> all the other
> positions, making ini edits to make certain the directories specified in
> each ini accurately reflected the install of WL on each position.
>
> Sometimes this seems to work fine. Other times, and I can't predict the
> circumstances, what I get is some form of internally-corrupted
> band segment
> data.  All spots are flagged as out of band, yet "show bands"
> tells me that
> the band segments are correctly covering all bands.  However,
> when I use the
> standalone application called "edit sub-bands" found in the start/programs
> list, what I see for the trouble systems is no band segment info
> whatsoever.
> No extra, general, whatever with their subdirectory-like
> structure. Totally
> empty. Furthermore, edit sub-bands does not let me respecify them.
>
> Can anyone with access to the source code look at this area and help me
> figure out, given this symptom, why this is happening and what I can do to
> either fix it or prevent it?
>
> Is there a gotcha somewhere in my habit of copying both the ini file (then
> edited) and the clean log file?  Might using a rogue editor on
> the ini file
> have caused something like this to happen (ini *looks* ok to me). I don't
> recall the editor used...we've been clicking on the writelog.ini
> filename in
> windows explorer, so whatever editor that uses is what we've been
> using...probably notepad, but I couldn't swear to it.
>
> Thanks for all suggestions.  WW is getting uncomfortably close ;-)
>
> 73
>
> Gary W2CS
>
>
>
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