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GCBULK dies all the time
On ES, the console log is littered with:
TOP LEVEL INTERRUPT 1,,0 DETACHED JOB # 12, USR:PFTHMG GCBULK 16:54:06
messages. I've never seen this daemon stay up. Is there some special configuration that needs to be done? Is it useful? If so, can it be made to stay up?
Running GCMAIL interactively (each time I've tried) seems to have no issues. It reads the .mail. directory and checks each entry for the FN1 of OSTATS, then does some checks to decide whether to reap it it is. When it gets to the end of the directory it does a .logout 1, as it should. I don't see why it should fail.
Ah. It appears to die on a .lose, because of the non-existence of a .BULK. directory. I guess this is a reasonable reason for failure.
But I don't really know why this didn't fail for me when I ran it interactively.....
I suspect GCMAIL is working and GCBULK is not. Because I interactively ran GCMAIL (JNAME was GCMAIL), that worked for me, but had I used a JNAME of GCBULK, it would have failed just like the DRAGON deaemon.
Isn't this related to #2097 since it deals with bulk email (mailing lists etc). Don't add the link by default, just if you want to deal with bulk email?
GCBULK is dying because the .BULK. directory doesn't exist. We shouldn't create the link in the build if we don't create the directory (and protect against its getting deleted by adding a -read- -me- file.