[Info-vax] Can't find file retained on error

[tadamsmar]

On Feb 22, 2:36 pm, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 1:53 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
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> > On 2/22/2011 11:25 AM, tadamsmar wrote:
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> > > I have these messags in my print queue, but I cannot locate the
> > > FOR010.DAT file that is referred to.   Can anyone explain?
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> > >       87  FOR010          CELEES            1  Retained on error
> > >         %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
> > >           Submitted 15-DEC-2010 17:09:53.37 /FORM=ERROR /PRIORITY=100
> > >           File: _DSA0:[]FOR010.DAT; /DELETE
> > >           Completed 15-DEC-2010 17:10:05.48 on queue EESLOG1
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> > >      719  FOR010          CELEES            1  Retained on error
> > >         %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
> > >           Submitted  4-FEB-2011 08:18:09.79 /FORM=ERROR /PRIORITY=100
> > >           File: _DSA0:[]FOR010.DAT; (checkpointed) /DELETE
> > >           Completed  4-FEB-2011 16:47:03.74 on queue EESLOG1
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> > Don't make me use my imagination!  How about starting with the basics?
> > What version of VMS are you using.  Which of the three possible
> > architectures (VAX, Alpha, and Itanium) are you using?  Or are you
> > emulating something using the x-86 platform? Is the system in question
> > part of a VMS cluster?  Have any patches been applied?  Which ones?
> > What sequence of commands did you use to produce the output shown?
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> > It's times like that this that I REALLY miss the late Carl J. Lydick!!
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> Regardless of the OpenVMS version, the behavior has been the same for
> years. In this case, the filename of dsa0:[]for010.dat incates a
> spooled file that has no directory home.  Since the message also
> indicates that the file was retained on error, the fiel exists, but
> without any directory entry.  The use of ANAL/DISK/REPAIR will place
> those files into the [syslost] directory.- Hide quoted text -
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Thanks for the help. I did find the files using your procedure.

In the queue entry (see the original post) there is a submitted time
and a completed time

Does the "completed time" indicate that the file was eventually
printed at that time?   Sometimes the completed time is much later
than the submitted time (on the the examples I posted).  These files
were logger message and I guess they were printed out of order if the
printing was delayed to the completion time.