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From: A105@UWOCC1.BITNET (Brent Sterner)
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Subject: ERRFMT problems
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 08:40:00 EST
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   Yesterday our 8600 got hung up; our operators are new and eventually
reloaded without getting a crash dump.  So I have no idea what happened.
   Upon reload, the following occurs:
ERRFMT - ERROR ACCESSING ERROR LOG FILE
%RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
   This repeats a dozen times or so, and then:
ERRFMT - DELETING ERRFMT PROCESS
ERROR LOG FILE UNWRITABLE
TO RESTART ERRFMT PROCESS, USE "@SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP ERRFMT"
   Of course this simply causes the dozen errors to be repeated.

   My 1st thought was that the file was bad.  I renamed it away.  No effect.
(Q: should I have created an empty file to assist ERRFMT?  That seems a bit
silly.)

   Any suggestions?

Brent Sterner
Computing & Communications Services
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