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 Another distribution agent for the subscription(s)

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Milo Cold
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Posted - 2005-06-01 : 13:42:10
Hello folks,

So I'm stumped! I've got a SQL server (w/one instance) that has two lovely pull subscriptions to the same server in another building. Now after recently setting up the second sub, the original sub keeps pooping out getting stuck in 'retrys' before eventually just failing. The message received post-pooping is "Another distribution agent for the subscription(s) is running."

After looking around the web for info, one site cliamed that this is caused by orphan agents (I think rogue agents sound better... but ehh). So I ran a query against sysprocesses and didn't find multiple processes running under the same agent name.

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When setting up multiple subs, is it incorrect to choose "Impersonate
the SQL Server Agent account" for both of them in the select synch agent login screen? Could that be why one of these sub is seeing double?

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If anyone has any advice I'd greatly apreciate it!

Thanks in Advance

M. Cold
   

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