Re: MPQS not cleaning up files

[Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:39:40PM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Michael Somos wrote:
> > -rw-------    1 somos    somos        7224 Jul 21 15:04 FNEW.614.15591
> > -rw-------    1 somos    somos      220962 Jul 21 15:04 FREL.614.15591
> > -rw-------    1 somos    somos        8055 Jul 21 15:04 LPNEW.614.15591
> > -rw-------    1 somos    somos      192510 Jul 21 15:04 LPREL.614.15591
[snip]
> (2) restart interrupted jobs in case of system shutdown: it is not uncommon to
> let MPQS run for a few months.
> 
> It has been a long time since a bug was reported in this module
> [ unfortunately, development stopped at about the same time ]. So (1) is
> probably no more a concern. (2) still is, although with the current state of
> the interface, it would be difficult to recover an interrupted job (this is
> not documented in any case).

I've done a restart before - very easy.  I should still have Gerhard's
instructions.  I'd rather leave the behavior unchanged for such cases
where it has run for too long to be wasted.

Igor