[Orca-users] winallator

[David Michaels]

>
> 1. Downloaded, compiled and installed the latest orca snapshot (r528) 
> in a completely separate path from our production "unix" orca
> 2. Patched the SourceFile.pm using SourceFile.pm-patch-with-r520.txt
> 3. Received several data *.tsv data files from a test server created 
> using the winallator.htm file (these files were created by the Windows 
> admin and provided to me)
> 4. Tried to start orca using <new_path>/bin/orca -v 
> <new_path/etc/winallator.cfg
>
> Orca fails with the following error:
>
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot find date 'timestamp' in 
> '/users/nrgo600/var/worca/winallator/testdir/winallator_2006040416.tsv'.
>
> I'm assuming the problem is a result of a mismatch between the 
> winallator.cfg and the data files. There is no "timestamp" column name 
> in the data file. I've tried editing the config file to match the 
> first column in the data file and tried changing the first column in 
> the data file to "timestamp" - neither effort worked. I've also tried 
> searching the user_archives. I did find one thread from Dec2005 where 
> Blair talks about using the right version of the patch - I'm assuming 
> I have the latest version since I just downloaded it today.

Actually, it isn't.  The patch should take care of translating 
"(PDH-TSV-blahblahblah blah blah)" to "timestamp" internally.  So my 
guess is that the patch you used did not work with 528.

I will generate a new patch for that file and get it to you.  Once we 
verify it works, we can put the new patch in the current snapshot.

--Dragon