[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Log file

[Sammy Banawan]

Unfortunately, the file was too big for it to be opened to allow me to 
clear it. I had to delete via the terminal. I'll try the tail command 
next time (I couldn't for the life of me remember what that command 
was, thanks.)

Now for the racket on this list about the whole "I'm switching to PM3, 
yada yada", I've got both PM3 and Missing Sync. I've used both quite a 
bit (not at the same time and not even on the same Panther 
installation. I did a format and clean install just to be sure things 
weren't going to get screwy) and PM3 has it's own issues. It's a good 
program for what it does, but I don't like the way it does it. For 
example, it adds a line to /etc/tty (something NO user process should 
do) that WILL KILL your ability to login if you're not careful. If you 
delete the program without uninstalling it, you'll have to either be a 
wannabe UNIX guru or pray you know one to solve the problem. I spent 
the better part of an hour trying to pinpoint the problem while SSH'ed 
into my computer and finally had to resort to a perl script to 
recursively grep search every file on my hard drive to find the messed 
up line. That was not fun. I'll take manually killing some rogue 
processes every now and then over that anyday.

Both programs are good for Mac users. To be sure, there is some work 
that needs to be done but have ya seen ActiveSync on a PC? It's not 
much better. My 2¢.

-Sammy

On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:43 PM, Brian Hall wrote:

>> I'll
>> check my log next time it happens. Hopefully, it'll be a more
>> manageable size.
>
> Try clearing the log to get it back down in size. (Pick view log, then
> click "clear log" button).
>
> There are also unix command line tools to look at the end of a file 
> (see
> the unix command "tail"). You may want to try that before clearing the 
> file.
>
> Brian
>
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