[Gafd-users] New release 1.2.20

[Holger K. <Hol...@dw...>]

Hello

There now is a new AFD Version (1.2.20). With this version the following
bugs have been fixed:

   - The program get_dc_data did not show all FD options.
   - The show_log dialog sometimes stopped showing data, due
     to a string not being terminated correctly.
   - Failed to remember last time value when retrieving files
     and time option is used.
   - AFD compiles again under SCO.
   - In HOST_CONFIG do not allow switching information with
     no content, ie. only the brackets.
   - Fix a bug in the function evaluating the afd.users file.
     When there is only one character between the user name and
     the permissions, it ends up in an endless loop.
   - Function search_old_file() may not delete files that are to
     be distributed.
   - If fifo buffer is to small set it to what we need.
   - Wrong label retry in dir_ctrl dialog in popup window, it
     should have been Enable/Disable.
   - Corrected warn message about the number of no bursts.
   - When rereading a new DIR_CONFIG the queued flag in FRA
     could stay set (ie. stuck), although there are no more jobs.
     This flag was then only reset when FD was restarted. This
     effected only retrieving hosts.
   - Process dir_check would handle only the files of an input
     directory where the files are comming in at a very high rate.
   - FD released a lock to early which could make it to
     failover to the secondary host although the number of
     errors has not yet reached the configured maximum. It
     would also never switch back to the original host.
   - On 64 bit systems delete_log could crash due to a missing
     cast.

The following was changed:

   - Allow scheme file to have no user name.
   - Accept 500 as error return for changing user on an active
     connection.
   - Store information that a host is not in DIR_CONFIG in the
     HOST_CONFIG.
   - Stopping the queue for a host fetching files is now implemented.
   - msync() now called with MS_SYNC instead of MS_ASYNC.
   - Print the message where AFD is active to stdout not stderr.

New things added:

   - Port to MacOS 10.3.
   - One can now start afd_ctrl, dir_ctrl and mon_ctrl with the
     -p option with a certain profile.
   - Implemented concept of fake users, the -u option.


Can be downloaded from the usual place:

Source:
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/src-1.2.20.tar.bz2
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/src-1.2.20.tar.gz

Patch:
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/patch-1.2.20.bz2
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/patch-1.2.20.gz

Documentation:
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/doc-1.2.x.tar.bz2
    ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/afd/doc-1.2.x.tar.gz

Enjoy,
Holger

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