[824] in Moira
blanche ignores error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 28 21:08:18 1994
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 21:08:09 -0400
To: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dcns-dev-np@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
Hello,
A while ago you reported a bug in blanche.
>I ran "blanche -v wif -file (filename)" to update the membership of
>a mailing list named wif. blanche couldn't get the list membership
>(late at night; updates in progress) so it apparently decided the
>list was empty and attempted to add everyone in the file. Here is
>the top of the output:
>
> blanche: the database is busy; try again later getting members of list wif
> Adding member jfc
> blanche: Record already exists while adding member jfc to wif
>
>blanche should have failed immediately when it couldn't get the list
>membership.
blanche now exits if it encounters an error while trying to get the
membership of a list, in order to sync it to a file.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT IS/DCNS Programmer
