Pamster wrote>
Both times it seems to have occurred at a time when the system was hanging,
trying to send an email.
Yes Gunnar, this is correct, these instances seemed to occur at the time
when things were hanging some in the sendmail after activating a new site to
the ring.
Please remember, our members were anxious to get the new images and HTML
fragment up for the webring as the majority of them are as displeased with
the merger as well. We announced that the ring was open and ready for site
submissions and were getting several submissions in a short period of time.
Could this be the reason for what we have seen?
Also , I have another question. I have another ring site that wants to use
your script however they want auto assigned site ID's. Can an auto number
be assigned and what files would I need to modify to accommodate them? This
is a ring of more than 700 members and I would like to help them out.
Thanks!
Fawnna
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From: owner-ringlinklist@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ringlinklist@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Pamster
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:27 AM
To: ringlinklist@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ringlinklist] Choose another site ID
We've had a couple of instances today where someone kept getting a message,
something like "pick another site ID". So they would try again - and would
end up with 6 entries in the queue (with 6 different site IDs). Even though
the system was saying "pick another site ID" it was still saving their
record with the site IDs that they had chosen.
The site IDs were not duplicates. And I'm wondering if it was because the
ring was locked by another user signing up - and because the code couldn't
get a lock - it's displaying that message. And the message is wrong...
that's just a guess, haven't had a chance to ask Fawnna if that's even a
possibility - but thought I'd throw it out to y'all to see what you thought.
Both times it seems to have occurred at a time when the system was hanging,
trying to send an email.
Pam