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Today, while working in Argentina, I started receiving hundreds of notifications (events4.nsf) that database after database was corrupt. This was a bit worrying to say the least especially because several system databases were among the list of databases being reported.

This presents several problems.
1. Database corrupt (obviously)
2. Hundreds if not thousands of notifications emails clogging up our admin mailboxes
3. The main support team in HK are sleeping right now.
4. I have no direct way to connect to the server in India from Buenos Aires through PCAnywhere or Remote Desktop.

I was able to get to the server console via passthru through one of our hub servers in Hong Kong.

All of our sites are not directly connected to each other, but they are all connected to our main site in HK, so passthru actually comes in handy sometimes when working at another site.

When I connected to remote console, the first message I saw was “unable to record to log – log.nsf corrupt”

Now it’s really getting bad! Read the rest of this entry »

On all of my Domino servers, I load some of the Windows NT, 2000, or 2003 Resource Kit Utilities. See Microsoft KB article 927229 for the Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools download page (You can download them individually and they’re free).

Here is the link to the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

The individual tools I use are:
Kill.exe
now.exe
Sclist.exe
sleep.exe
srvinfo.exe
Timeout.exe
TLIST.EXE
WNTIPCFG.EXE (does not work on Windows 2003 unfortunately)

I put them into the c:\program files\rktools\ directory, which is the default if you install the whole package. I also put that directory into the path so that you can execute any of the commands from any directory or any script/batch file. Read the rest of this entry »

I was recently asked about Hot-Keys in R8.

On the default Home page, it blatantly tells you what the key is to bring up a list of hot-keys.
Ctrl+Shift+L

Also, check out this weblink:
http://allhotkeys.com/lotus_notes_hotkeys.html

Today while trying to load my R8 client, my client got hung.

I have been having a strange problem where when I start Notes8, it sets there trying to load what I previously had loaded, and then offers up the dialog box “Do you want to replicate data with the server?” If I say either Yes or No, Notes stops responding.

I’m not sure why this is happening, but I’ve noticed some flakiness between switching between my admin ID and my personal ID frequently, which is how I work. Read the rest of this entry »

Thought this is an option in the notes client when sending email, you can easily get around it by clearing the $KeepPrivate field.

Or alternatively, just hit the Printscreen key on the keyboard or use any other screen capture software.