[Orca-users] Re: Nightly "did exist and is now gone" email messages

[Douglas Valkenaar]

At 10:51 AM 11/8/01, you wrote:
>Douglas Valkenaar wrote:
> >
> > Every night after setting up Orca and the orcallator I'm receiving
> messages
> > such as:
> >
> > Orca: file `/proj/atria/etc/orcallator/trout/orcallator-2001-11-06-000'
> did
> > exist and is now gone.
> >
> > I get two of them and then they stop until the next night.  Does anyone
> > know the cause of this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>Douglas,
>
>I just added this question to the FAQ at
>
>         http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/FAQ.txt
>
>   2.4) Warning: file `.../orcallator/host1/orcallator-2001-11-06-000'
>        did exist and is now gone.
>
>        Orca prints this message when it found an input data file to
>        read and when it goes to read it, which may be a while later,
>        the file no longer exists.
>
>        When Orca is being used with orcallator.se, this message may
>        occur when orcallator.se compresses the previous day's percol-*
>        or orcallator-* file that Orca found.
>
>Are you compressing or removing the percol-* or orcallator-* data files at
>some point in the day?

They are being compressed by 'orcallator.se' - probably about that
time.  Do you think there's some way to tweak the timing of events to avoid
this happening?  While it's simply an annoyance, I'd really rather only get
real failure messages.

Thanks for the response!