Subj : Irex in a seeming endless loop
To   : Gregory J. Deyss
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Oct 12 2012 04:11 pm


 Gregory J. Deyss wrote to all:

 GJD> Internet Rex 2.29 (Win95/NT 32-bit), Thu Oct 11 18:11:33
 GJD> 201 + 18:11:32
 GJD> Command line: -daemon
 GJD> % 18:11:33  Starting rescan...
 GJD> % 18:11:33  Done rescan
 GJD> + 18:11:34  Config files may have changed: reloading.
 GJD> why does this happen, I backup my files just in case and it seemed
 GJD> to clear the issue.

That's a normal event, unless you're seeing this in a continuous screen
flashing by...in which case there is a config problem that Rex doesn't
like.

 GJD> here is my rexstart.bat
 GJD> rem
 GJD> del /q c:\rex\sems\rexup.0
 GJD> del /q c:\rex\sems\rexbusy.0
 GJD> net start "internet rex"
 GJD> c:\rex\rexw.exe -daemon
 GJD> * the rex icon still appears within the system tray

 GJD> also

 GJD> I backed up the file rexup.0 within the sems directory

Rex uses *.0 files to tell itself that there is activity being processed.

rexup.0 tells rex not to load a 2nd time because it is already running.
rexbusy.0 tells rex to wait for an event to finish before it starts
another. i.e. you shouldn't be saving or backing up these files anywhere
that rex can find them.

PS - what does the /q flag do in a DOS delete command?

                R\%/itt


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