Shutdown weirdness.

• Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 19:04:46 PST
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  CS Moo Admin <csmoo@acs.brockport.edu>
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Recently the machine my MOO is on crashed.  (This is not unusual, it's a 
Sun.) As usual, the moo caught the shutdown signal and produced a dump.  
However, the .db.new.#*# file doesn't get renamed to .db.new, so when the 
machine comes up and calls restart, an old .db.new file gets used. Is 
this unusal?  To get around it, I added these lines to restart before the 
"if (-r $1.db.new) then" line:

if (-r $1.db.new.#*#) then
	mv $1.db.new $1.db.new.bkup
	mv $1.db.new.#*# $1.db.new
endif

I don't like it, especially since if the system only partially comes up 
and crashes again, there may be at least two #*# files, one of which is 
sure to be a partial.  (Hence the mv to .bkup.) Anyone else have any 
suggestions?

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