Mojo wrote to All on 05-04-18 11:07 <=-
Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on running events to see if they have failed or excuted?
A thought would there bne a way that something could be added that
would allow this to be checked from within the event itself?
Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on
running events to see if they have failed or excuted?
Yes, the ERROR.LOG in ../ctrl folder.
Re: Timed Events By: Bill McGarrity to Mojo on Fri May 04 2018 06:26
Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on
running events to see if they have failed or excuted?
Yes, the ERROR.LOG in ../ctrl folder.
It would be alot easier if it did not have to be done through a log
file that could take alot of time to go through looking for things.
I normally view mine on average every two days and if nothing is lifethreatening... I delete the file. If you allow a year of data to build up then yes, it's a pain in the ass but it does log cronologically datewise so start at the end and work your way back.
I looked in my CTRL directory for a file called error.log and I do not have a file in there called that. Is this the actual file name for
this log?
I looked in my CTRL directory for a file called error.log and I do not have a file in there called that. Is this the actual file name for this log?
Is there a limit to how many timed events that will work?
I have 16 events in there right now and when I add more to it they never run M>this makes me wonder if there is a limit to how many will actually work.
Is there a limit to how many timed events that will work?
I have 16 events in there right now and when I add more to it theyrun M>this makes me wonder if there is a limit to how many will actually work.
never
Of the events, two require the users to be offline. One is NGTMAINT,
my nightly maintenance file, and the other is MSGMAINT, run by SBBS. All the rest are handled by Windows 7 Task Scheduler. I tried placing other events in SCFG, but they didn't want to run right. It might have been
with memory issues, but I'm not sure.
On 2018 May 04 23:19:44, you wrote to Bill McGarrity:
I looked in my CTRL directory for a file called error.log and I do not have a file in there called that. Is this the actual file name for
this log?
look in /data instead...
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Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on running events to see if they have failed or excuted?
A thought would there bne a way that something could be added that would allow this to be checked from within the event itself?
Is there a limit to how many timed events that will work?No.
Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on running
events to see if they have failed or excuted?
On Windows, no.
Is there a limit to how many timed events that will work?No.
Well at this time I am running most of them in task scheduler but that is no JA>working out so well either as I am having trouble with it not running them JA>either. So this has become a problem some of my batch files just never run a JA>I have to run them myself. I would rather them all be in SBBS but at this ti JA>that is not going to work either.
Well at this time I am running most of them in task scheduler butno JA>working out so well either as I am having trouble with it not running them JA>either. So this has become a problem some of my batch files just never run a JA>I have to run them myself. I would rather them all be in SBBS but at this ti JA>that is not going to work either.
that is
How much memory is on your system?? That could be a problem as well.
Is there a limit to how many timed events that will work?
No.
I just do not get why the batch file will not run as it was set to.
How much memory is on your system?? That could be a problem as well.
4GB
also try to get those bots off all the nodes as quickly as possible to keep a K>nodes free.. if even one node is active the event will not run.
Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to Mojo on Sat May 05 2018 11:46 pm
Is there a place other than in the events windows to check on running
events to see if they have failed or excuted?
On Windows, no.
I have added a new timed event to Synchronet and it just does not run like I have it set to (24 times a day) I am just not sure why it does not run. It is a batch file for hourly maintenance for some games on the bbs.
Paste the configuration of the timed event from SCFG here and we'll have a look-see.
Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to Mojo on Mon May 07 2018 12:39 pm
Paste the configuration of the timed event from SCFG here and we'll have a look-see.
Ok, here is a screen shot of the configuration of one of them I was using.
[ [Internal Code MAIN24 [[
[ [Start-up Directory c:\sbbs\batch files [[
[ [Command Line main24.bat [[
[ [Enabled Yes [[
[ [Execution Node 10 [[
[ [Execution Months Any [[
[ [Execution Days of Month Any [[
[ [Execution Days of Week All [[
[ [Execution Frequency 24 times a day [[
[ [Requires Exclusive Execution No [[
[ [Force Users Off-line For Event No [[
[ [Native Executable No [[
[ [Use Shell to Execute No [[
[ [Background Execution No [[
[ [Always Run After Init/Re-init No [[
Paste the configuration of the timed event from SCFG here and we'll
have a look-see.
Ok, here is a screen shot of the configuration of one of them I was
using.
So the directory name actually has a space in it? Below, you have "Native Executable" set to "No", which means you're going to use the 16-bit DOS command.com to execute this program (batch file). It might be a problem if that program/batch file is in a non-DOS compliant directory. DOS filenames and directory must be in "8.3" format (maximum of 8 primary characters, up to 3 character suffix/extension) - and no spaces or other non-printable characters.
Is the Synchronet Terminal Server configured to handle all 10 nodes?
Batch files require a shell (e.g. command.com or cmd.exe) to execute. Set "Use Shell to Execute" to "Yes".
Another method to test a timed event is to force it to execute (e.g. SBBSCTRL:BBS->Forced Timed Event or by touching a sem file). You don't have to wait for the normal execution time.
do you have a node 10 set up? is it empty (no user logged in) when the event's time arrives?
OK i got a weird one here, I am change my Main BBS from SBBS under windows 7 to Linux, and i have come accrossed a weird prob when creating events thanks to a few other sysops i finly got the doors working with the dosemu, and when
i was setting up the events for ibbs games for both mail time every couple hr or so, and once a day say around minnight, i ran into a prob if i set the
even to run say 96 times a day it seems to work just fine, but if i change it from 96 times a day to once a day say at minnight it does nothing no matter what time i set the event to go off nothing, but if i change it back to 96 times a day it works fine anyone know what im missing?
Re: Timed Eventsto
By: Terry to All on Sun Aug 12 2018 12:44 pm
If you set it to a specific time, did you wait 24 hours for the set time
actually occur? If you paste the configuration from SCFG here, thatmight
help us see any mistakes you might've made.
digital man
If you set it to a specific time, did you wait 24 hours for the set timeto
actually occur? If you paste the configuration from SCFG here, thatmight
help us see any mistakes you might've made.
┌[+][?]───────── 	 472;─────────γ 2;γ 2;─────────	
there is my current setting now i didn't set it and wait 24hr's i get it to say go off 10 or 15 min from the time that i set it so i can watch it :(
is that what im doing worng I have to wait a full 24hr to make sure it
works to run once a day? let me know thanks DM for the reply.
Re: Re: Timed Events
By: Terry to Digital Man on Sun Aug 12 2018 04:16 pm
You need to work on your copy/paste skills there. :-)
Yes, if it already ran "today", it won't run again just because youchange
time to run at. If you delete your ctrl/time.dab file, that will resetthe
record of when it last ran and it would run again at the configured time (even if it did in fact already run "today").
digital man
Re: Re: Timed Events
By: Terry to Digital Man on Sun Aug 12 2018 04:16 pm
Yes, if it already ran "today", it won't run again just because you change time to run at. If you delete your ctrl/time.dab file, that will reset the record of when it last ran and it would run again at the configured time (even if it did in fact already run "today").
digital man
You need to work on your copy/paste skills there. :-)
Thats weird i even took everything out of it so it was just the text
:( ok i will look into that
Hi Gang,
I seem to be having issues with my timed events.
Specifically FIDOIN and TICKIT (but sometime others).
Running Syncronet 3.17c on Centos Linux.
Just in the last few weeks I have found that some of the timed events are hung and not running as scheduled.
I think it may be connected to being constantly swamped by hacking bots and very
short periods for which none of the 8 nodes are active.
I can fix it by setting a node toggle to Re-Run at Loggoff. Then the moment all nodes are free there is a flurry of timed event activity.
Has anyone else encountered this behaviour?
Just in the last few weeks I have found that some of the timed events are hung and not running as scheduled.
More details would be needed (e.g. the last lines of your data/sbbsecho.log file at the time of "hang", in the case of FIDOIN->SBBSecho).
Do you have your timed events set to require exclusive execution? Most events (like those you listed) do not and should not be configured to require exclusive execution.
I have there Sched currently set to 24 times a day, and have split
the Events across various nodes.
Just in the last few weeks I have found that some of the timed events are hung and not running as scheduled.
More details would be needed (e.g. the last lines of your data/sbbsecho.log file at the time of "hang", in the case of FIDOIN->SBBSecho).
Hiya DM,
Last time it ran today was 12:11pm
2020-06-09 11:59:29 Imported: 1 msgs memories <- MEMORIES 2020-06-09 11:59:29 Imported: 18 msgs cooking <- COOKING 2020-06-09 11:59:29 Imported: 19 msgs total
2020-06-09 11:59:29 Writing 1 areas to ../data/badareas.lst
2020-06-09 11:59:29 Deleting /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 3038) 2020-06-09 11:59:29 SBBSecho (PID 11818) exiting with error level 0, Bundles(1 unpacked, 0 sent), Packets(1 imported, 0 sent), EchoMail(19 imported, 0 exported)
2020-06-09 12:11:22 SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.156 Apr 7 2020 GCC 4.8.5 (PID 12057)
invoked with options: -ce
2020-06-09 12:11:22 Configured: 1 archivers, 13 linked-nodes, 4 echolists 2020-06-09 12:11:22 NetMail directory: /usr/local/sbbs/fido/netmail/ 2020-06-09 12:11:22 Secure Inbound directory: /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/ 2020-06-09 12:11:22 Non-secure Inbound directory: /sbbs/fido/inbound/ 2020-06-09 12:11:22 Outbound (BSO root) directory: /sbbs/fido/outbound/ 2020-06-09 12:11:22 Read 391 areas from /sbbs/data/AREAS.BBS
2020-06-09 12:11:22 Read 1 areas from ../data/badareas.lst
2020-06-09 12:11:23 Read 217 echo statistics from ../data/echostats.ini 2020-06-09 12:11:23 Unpacking bundle: /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/def01201.tu0 (0.8KB) 2020-06-09 12:11:23 Executing: /usr/local/bin/unzip -j /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/def01201.tu0 -d /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/
2020-06-09 12:11:23 Deleting /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/def01201.tu0 (from line 2788) 2020-06-09 12:11:23 Importing /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/5edeefb8.pkt (Type 2e, 0.8KB)
from 3:712/848 to 3:712/620
2020-06-09 12:11:23 Deleting /sbbs/fido/inbsecure/5edeefb8.pkt (from line 5967) 2020-06-09 12:11:24 Writing 1 areas to ../data/badareas.lst
2020-06-09 12:11:24 Deleting /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.bsy (from line 3038) 2020-06-09 12:11:24 SBBSecho (PID 12057) exiting with error level 0, Bundles(1 unpacked, 0 sent), Packets(1 imported, 0 sent)
Now umonitor just shows FIDOIN as (Pending) but it should have run at least a few
times since 12:11 (Time now is 3:46pm)
in my BINK* and FIDO* events, starting at the "Execution Node" and going down to the time, my settings are
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1. Check the date and time settings on your server. If the time on your server is incorrect, this can cause issues with timed events.
2. Double-check your event scheduler configuration. Make sure that your events are set up with the correct time zone and that the interval is set correctly.
3. Ensure that the task scheduler service is running on your server. This service is responsible for running timed events on schedule.
4. If none of these suggestions help, try restarting the task scheduler service and see if that resolves the issue.
My timed events seem to be off. They run a lot later then they should. What's more, I can not manually run a timed event. Any ideas?
My timed events seem to be off. They run a lot later then they should. What's more, I can not manually run a timed event. Any ideas?
Re: Timed Events
By: Tim Whitson to All on Sun Mar 12 2023 08:19 pm
My timed events seem to be off. They run a lot later then they should. What's more, I can not manually run a timed event. Any ideas?
I responded to this same question from you in the Synchronet Discussion foru already. Did you not see it?
Hi Tim, thank you for reaching out. It sounds like your timed events may nee to be adjusted. Here are a few things you can try:
1. Check the date and time settings on your server. If the time on your serv is incorrect, this can cause issues with timed events.
2. Double-check your event scheduler configuration. Make sure that your even are set up with the correct time zone and that the interval is set correctly
3. Ensure that the task scheduler service is running on your server. This service is responsible for running timed events on schedule.
4. If none of these suggestions help, try restarting the task scheduler serv and see if that resolves the issue.
If these suggestions don't resolve the issue, please let me know and we can explore further.
--
Chad Jipiti
These did not work. It seems the only way I can get the events to run is to shut down and restart Synchronet. Once restarted the events will run for a couple of hours then quit. For example I reboot before going to work, the system is fine, I come home and no events have ran since 6:00 am in the morning. (Which is when I leave for work.)
Check your event log when this happens. It will tell you the last event that was/is running and that even is likely just stuck (not returning control to BBS).
Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to Tim Whitson on Wed Mar 22 2023 10:19 am
Check your event log when this happens. It will tell you the last event that was/is running and that even is likely just stuck (not returning control to BBS).
I've been watching the event log. I'll reboot the BBS and events will run fine. I come back several hours later and the last event that ran was:
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Connecting to 618:300/1@micronet at realitycheckBBS.org:24554
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Will encrypt session.
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Peer version: BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20a/Win32 06:53.07a BINKPOLL Authentication successful: non-secure
Under the Services log, things keep running
The last entry being:
3/23 06:47:18p 3384 BINKP service terminated (0 clients remain, 0 total, 128 served)
This is from yesterday, but it's been like that for the last couple of days.
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Connecting to 618:300/1@micronet at realitycheckBBS.org:24554
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Will encrypt session.
06:53.07a BINKPOLL Peer version: BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20a/Win32 06:53.07a BINKPOLL Authentication successful: non-secure
We made a hub change a few weeks back. realitycheckBBS is no longer hub for net300. You'll need to get a new nodelist (I should have sent one to you via email, check your SPAM folder...)
If not, you could download the most recent nodelist from https://www.minftn.net/ and it'll have the correct information for 300/1.
Is it always polling the same hub when this issue happens?
Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to Tim Whitson on Sat Mar 25 2023 11:53 am
Is it always polling the same hub when this issue happens?
Thank you for your help. I hadn't updated for the changes on Micronet. It was hanging up when trying to poll it. Now everything is working again.
Tim Whitson wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
We made a hub change a few weeks back. realitycheckBBS is no longer hub for net300. You'll need to get a new nodelist (I should have sent one to you via email, check your SPAM folder...)
If not, you could download the most recent nodelist from https://www.minftn.net/ and it'll have the correct information for 300/1.
That was it, it was hanging up trying to poll Micronet. Thank
you for the help. It's amazing how something like this can
really mess things up.
That was it, it was hanging up trying to poll Micronet. Thank you for the help. It's amazing how something like this can really mess things up.
I appreciate the help.
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