in my tickit.ini, i have this...

[DAILYLIST]
Dir=FDIST-DAILYLIS
Links=1:261/38
Handler=tickit/nodelist_handler.js
HandlerArg={"domain":"fidonet", "match":"Z1DAILY.Z*", "nlmatch":"Z1DAILY.*"}

i've read the wiki page on TickIT and the above handlerarg looks proper but something isn't right and i don't understand the code well enough to figure out
the problem... what is the problem? the file that is copied is copied into the destination direcotry as "Z1DAILY.*" instead of its name as inside the archive...

i started by manually copying Z1DAILY.273 into my sbbs/fido/nodelist directory... then i set TickIT up and let it run when tic files come in... after a day or two, i looked in the nodelist directory and hoped to see that Z1DAILY.273 was not in there and that a newer nodelist file was... i was quite surprised to see the following...

/sbbs/fido/nodelist$ ls -l
total 344
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173960 Oct 11 01:00 'Z1DAILY.*'
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173784 Sep 30 08:34 Z1DAILY.273

especially when the temp directory contains the proper file name...

/sbbs/temp/event/nodelist_handler$ ls -l
total 172
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173960 Oct 11 00:35 Z1DAILY.284

the Z1DAILY.* file name is updated each day when it arrives... exec/load/tickit/nodelist_handler.js is the default that comes with sync...

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Re: tic handler for DAILYLIST
By: mark lewis to all on Thu Oct 11 2018 09:58:40

-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173960 Oct 11 01:00 'Z1DAILY.*'
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173784 Sep 30 08:34 Z1DAILY.273

What do you have in echocfg for Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList? The path & filename specified there is what nodelist_handler ultimately tries to copy the new file to.

Your stuff from tickit.ini looks fine and very similar to mine. On my system, in echocfg, Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList points to ../fido/nodelists/fidonet.
My nodelist is correctly updated whenever a new one comes in. (I'm also using Z1DAILY.)

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echicken wrote:

Re: tic handler for DAILYLIST
By: mark lewis to all on Thu Oct 11 2018 09:58:40

-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173960 Oct 11 01:00 'Z1DAILY.*'
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173784 Sep 30 08:34 Z1DAILY.273

What do you have in echocfg for Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList? The path & filename specified there is what nodelist_handler ultimately tries to copy

the

new file to.

Your stuff from tickit.ini looks fine and very similar to mine. On my

system,

in echocfg, Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList points to

../fido/nodelists/fidonet.

My nodelist is correctly updated whenever a new one comes in. (I'm also

using

Z1DAILY.)

To illistrate what echicken is saying, my domains setting for fidonet looks like this:

[Domain - fidonet]
1: Name fidonet
2: Zones 1,2,3,4,5,6
3: DNS Suffix
4: Outbound Root /sbbs/fido/outbound
5: NodeList /sbbs/nodelist/nodelist.na

Once it finds a match it'll use the NodeList entry as the destination
filename. Your tickit.ini entry looks the same as mine so fixing this should resolve your issue.

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On 2018 Oct 11 11:23:44, you wrote to me:

-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173960 Oct 11 01:00 'Z1DAILY.*'
-rw------- 1 sbbs sbbs 173784 Sep 30 08:34 Z1DAILY.273

What do you have in echocfg for Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList? The
path & filename specified there is what nodelist_handler ultimately
tries to copy the new file to.

OOOHHHH... that wasn't clear... i have Z1DAILY.* in there because i thought it was a filemask to look for...

if i put ../fido/nodelist/nodelist will it copy the Z1DAILY.### file to nodelist.###?? in other words, will it keep the file's existing extension? subtly, will it also do the rename and keep the extension?

Your stuff from tickit.ini looks fine and very similar to mine. On my system, in echocfg, Domains -> fidonet -> NodeList points to ../fido/nodelists/fidonet. My nodelist is correctly updated whenever a
new one comes in. (I'm also using Z1DAILY.)

what does "ls -l ../fido/nodelists" show, please...

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Re: tic handler for DAILYLIST
By: mark lewis to echicken on Fri Oct 12 2018 16:26:38

if i put ../fido/nodelist/nodelist will it copy the Z1DAILY.### file to nodelist.###?? in other words, will it keep the file's existing extension? subtly, will it also do the rename and keep the extension?

The matching file (Z1DAILY.###) would replace ../fido/nodelist/nodelist. (The idea being that ../fido/nodelist/nodelist is always an up-to-date copy.)

what does "ls -l ../fido/nodelists" show, please...

-rw-rw-r-- 1 bbs bbs 173667 Oct 12 01:17 fidonet
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bbs bbs 24731 Oct 11 09:18 fsxnet

And in my tickit.ini:

[DAILYLIST]
Dir=FIDO_DAILYLST
Handler=tickit/nodelist_handler.js HandlerArg={"domain":"fidonet","match":"Z1DAILY.Z*","nlmatch":"Z1DAILY.*"}

[FSX_NODE]
Dir=FSXNET_FSX_NODE
Handler=tickit/nodelist_handler.js HandlerArg={"domain":"fsxnet","match":"FSXNET.Z*","nlmatch":"FSXNET.*"}

And relevant keys from sbbsecho.ini:

[domain:fidonet]
NodeList = ../fido/nodelists/fidonet

[domain:fsxnet]
NodeList = ../fido/nodelists/fsxnet

The HandlerArg given to nodelist_handler.js tells the script:

- match: If TickIT is importing a file that matches this
- nlmatch: If the archive contains a file matching this
- domain: look up this domain in sbbsecho.ini

The script copies the first file matched by 'nlmatch' to the nodelist path for 'domain'.

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On 2018 Oct 12 18:12:44, you wrote to me:

And relevant keys from sbbsecho.ini:

[domain:fidonet]
NodeList = ../fido/nodelists/fidonet

that was my confusion... i thought it wanted a directory/filemask so i had the ".*" in there to match only those file names... i thought it was intelligent enough to hunt down the latest one but this KIS approach is better now that i know about it...

thanks for the assist :)

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