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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brew, CAJ (Chris)
said:
> I cannot find anything about it now but I seem to recall someone had
> some proceedure whereby they used iptables to block new connections to
> some port (2811 possibly) for a while before the reboot so no new
> transfers could be started. Of course that doesn't help the jobs that
> die because they could not access the files.
I think that was David Groep, but I might be wrong - blocking SYN
packets? In theory jobs should have some kind of recovery strategy if a
file access fails, but ...
Stephen
PS Here we are, mails attached: October 2004!
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