[cyngus]

Its my best theory that that’s what is going on. Maybe I should describe the situation a little more fully. The server was operating fine, and then it became unresponsive, spinning beach ball on the machine. I was able to bring up a force quit dialog, but unable to interact with it. I was connected via ssh from another machine, and was able to do anything that didn’t require a new process or thread to launch. I had to power off the server. When it came back, the Open Directory node wasn’t responding to connection attempts. When attempting to to access the node through Workgroup Manager I get the error that the node couldn’t be opened because of an unexpected error -14002. The system log indicates failed attempts to bind to the Open Directory node due to bad parameters or something (I can’t remember the exact message now, but can check tomorrow at the office) reported by the Directory Service process. The Open Directory log from Server Admin is recording connections when I attempted to connect with Workgroup Manager, but like I said, I just get an error from there. Database corruption is the thing that I suspect since the power off could have hosed it.

As to send/receive mail, we don’t use this server as a mail server.

[cyngus]

While I can’t provide you a solution, from the crash log its basically saying that the AFP server process tried to access a memory address outside of its allowed range. Internally the process is probably improperly dereferencing a pointer or calculating an offset from a pointer improperly.

[cyngus]

I don’t know if this will work for your purposes, but it might. You could write an Applescript to open the file. I assume that the file or files will change over time. If this is the case then you just have to write the AppleScript to parse the web page containing the link to the file. Unfortunately I don’t know of a way to launch an applescript from a web browser. I guess it would help to know a little more about what file(s) will need to be opened, how they change over time, how many of them there are, etc.

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