Re: iprop-slave question

[Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> Better to ask Love this one, I think.  I know he attacked iprop vigorously 
> after my presentation this summer, but I don't have any experience with the 
> latest one.

I looked through the code and I can't see anything that addresses this
issue.

ipropd-slave simply dies with a "krb5_read_priv_message: End of file"
error in the logs.

> A "delay before dying" option sounds like a reasonable addition to me though. 
> AFAIK 50% of my problems are due to transient issues with a firewall and 
> would likely go away for some reasonable value of such an option.  (I have no 
> direct evidence you understand, only statistical correlation.)

Same here.

I have a very old patch from someone that adds a "retry and reconnect"
logic to ipropd_slave.c which I am trying to apply right now.

-- Alf.

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