Hello,

A downlink told me that the AreaFix %HELP command did not repond. I tried the command myself from another BBS I run and I was able to confirm that the %HELP command did nothing. I didn't try all of the other commands but LIST, QUERY, Adding Echos, and a few other commands worked properly.

sbbsecho.log shows that the command was recieved but no message created. I looked at the src code and found another command %ECHOSTATS.. I was earger to try that.. but it doesn't respond either.

I'm running Linux, sbbsecho 3.03. Any help would be appiecated.


Thanks

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Re: AreaFix %HELP command
By: Rastus to All on Mon Jan 08 2018 12:25 pm

Hello,

A downlink told me that the AreaFix %HELP command did not repond. I tried the command myself from another BBS I run and I was able to confirm that the %HELP command did nothing. I didn't try all of the other commands but LIST, QUERY, Adding Echos, and a few other commands worked properly.

sbbsecho.log shows that the command was recieved but no message created. I looked at the src code and found another command %ECHOSTATS.. I was earger to try that.. but it doesn't respond either.

I'm running Linux, sbbsecho 3.03. Any help would be appiecated.

Can you search through your sbbsecho.log file for "AreaFix (for addr) Received command:" (where addr is the node address in question)?

You'll need to enable debug log level if you haven't already.

Anyway, those log lines should show all the AreaFix commands received by each node. Do you see "Received command: HELP" in the log?

For the HELP response to work, the file exec/areamgr.hlp must exist. Does it?

The command "ECHOSTATS" by itself won't do anything, you have to specify an echo to query stats on (e.g. "ECHOSTATS <echo-tag>" where <echo-tag> is the area/echo tag you want to query).

digital man

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Re: AreaFix %HELP command
By: Digital Man to Rastus on Mon Jan 08 2018 01:07 pm

Can you search through your sbbsecho.log file for "AreaFix (for addr) Received command:" (where addr is the node address in question)?

Debug Level

2018-01-09 11:29:52 AreaFix (for 411:411/101) Received command: HELP
2018-01-09 11:29:52 Deleting /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/059c71a9.pkt (from line 5815) 2018-01-09 11:29:52 Deleting /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 2919) 2018-01-09 11:29:52 SBBSecho exiting with error level 0, Bundles(1 unpacked, 0 sent), Packets(1 imported, 0 sent)

Nothing else happens. or is logged.

And yes areamrg.hlp is present, if were to be missing an error is generted in the log file (I tested that).

The command "ECHOSTATS" by itself won't do anything, you have to specify an echo to query stats on (e.g. "ECHOSTATS <echo-tag>" where <echo-tag> is the area/echo tag you want to query).
digital man

The EchoStats command responded properly when I did as you suggestedd.

Thanks,

Nicholas

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Re: AreaFix %HELP command
By: Rastus to Digital Man on Tue Jan 09 2018 12:00 pm

Re: AreaFix %HELP command
By: Digital Man to Rastus on Mon Jan 08 2018 01:07 pm

Can you search through your sbbsecho.log file for "AreaFix (for addr) Received command:" (where addr is the node address in question)?

Debug Level

2018-01-09 11:29:52 AreaFix (for 411:411/101) Received command: HELP 2018-01-09 11:29:52 Deleting /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/059c71a9.pkt (from line 5815) 2018-01-09 11:29:52 Deleting /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 2919) 2018-01-09 11:29:52 SBBSecho exiting with error level 0, Bundles(1 unpacked, 0 sent), Packets(1 imported, 0 sent)

Nothing else happens. or is logged.

And yes areamrg.hlp is present, if were to be missing an error is generted in the log file (I tested that).

Okay, I see now. Looks like I broke the HELP command in rev 3.59. I'll be committing a tested fix shortly.

digital man

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Re: AreaFix %HELP command
By: Digital Man to Rastus on Tue Jan 09 2018 12:48 pm

Re: AreaFix %HELP command
Okay, I see now. Looks like I broke the HELP command in rev 3.59. I'll be committing a tested fix shortly.

digital man

Thank you sir, HELP is once again working and the new areamgr.hlp file is more informative.

Thanks Again,

Fat Rastus

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