• Re: SBBSecho logging.

    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Digital Man on Tue Nov 7 06:25:53 2017
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    Re: Re: SBBSecho logging.
    By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Tue Jan 05 2016 07:40 pm

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    Re: Re: SBBSecho logging.
    By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Mon Jan 04 2016 02:32 pm

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    Hiya Rob...

    Joe Delahaye wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    Re: Re: SBBSecho logging.
    By: Bill McGarrity to Joe Delahaye on Sun Jan 03 2016 17:40:00

    The above is already being tested. We found that although the
    packet name at least was created, (archived), when the connections
    were made, the mail went to the one system, and tried to send to the
    other, but file not found.

    Were there not two separate PKT's created for each node? Why not remove archieving from the equation and just create a .*lo file as well and check your binkd logs.


    I tried that, resulting in an over abundance of .pkt files sitting in the outbound. Some of my nodes only collect mail maybe once a week or less, and that becomes a problem in my mind at least <G>. When packets are created, it seems that they mostly go to the master outbound folder, with the .lo files mostly going to the proper areas (i.e. outbound.002), but not always

    OK.... that's fair. One other thing, could you post from echocfg your "Toggle Options"? If I can remember correctly, you had Fuzzy Zone disabled. I've always had that enabled and have no issue.

    Fuzzy Zone operations effect NetMail only, not EchoMail.


    One thing I did find in my logs...

    2016-01-04 14:12:24 ERROR line 1836 renaming c:\fd\outbound\04141202.pk_ to c:\fd\outbound\04141202.pkt

    Interesting. Is this a one time occurrence or have you seen this error before? Is it possible there were 2 instance of SBBSecho running at this time (e.g. one spawned by Synchronet timed event and another spawned by another means)? I don't really have another explanation for that at this time, but it certainly should not happen.

    OK... that is quite possible. Naturally I run fidoin when I get something from my uplink and then it processes it to downlinks but I also have a timed event fidoout running every 10 minutes for netmail to be processed. There could be an overlap. Interesting...

    When you say you "run fidoin", does that mean you trigger the timed
    event by touching a semaphore file or you're running SBBSecho
    externally somehow?

    Yes, fidoin is triggered by a semaphore ONLY. Being I have downlinks, as soon as sbbsecho does it's thing importing, it creates outbound pkt's, as you well know. I run a timed event for fidoout incase there are any *.msg's sitting in my netmail so they get converted and sent. I don't get many callers but if someone wants to send a netmail, I really don't want it sitting around waiting for fidoout to run.

    The normal/best way to run SBBSecho (for both import and export) is
    *only* from the Synchronet event thread. This will insure that there is only one instance of SBBSecho running at a time and avoid race
    conditions that could cause the kind of error you reported.

    Agreed, but now that you told me the stray pk_ gets converted after 60 minutes, i'm not too worried. Yes, statistically two instances can, and have run together but it doesn't create a huge issue.

    Thanks!!


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Lord Time on Tue Nov 7 06:25:53 2017
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    OK... that is quite possible. Naturally I run fidoin when I get something from my uplink and then it processes it to downlinks but I also have a timed event fidoout running every 10 minutes for netmail to be processed. There could be an overlap. Interesting...

    hmmm, you run fidonin way more then I do, mine is set at every 15 mins
    (96 times a day), I figure as a fidonet hub boss, my net (league 10), whispernet hub, (was another net hub) every 15 mins would be enought


    I let binkd trigger a semaphore to get it processed. :)


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Joe Delahaye on Tue Nov 7 06:25:53 2017
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    Re: Re: SBBSecho logging.
    By: Digital Man to Joe Delahaye on Wed Jan 06 2016 14:17:21

    I think we're good now. If you see another problem, let me know, and as usual, the log snippets usually help.


    I'm not certain yet. Had a problem today. Could not toss mail in or
    out due to a node being locked with a .bsy file. Finally cleared that.
    Had to shut down binkd to remove the .bsy files, and then most mail
    went out, and inbound got imported. I'll keep an eye on it.

    Binkd offers a command to kill .bsy files... kill-old-bsy 12h


    I have another question that may seem silly. As RC I get netmails from the NCs and the ZC, from Makenl. Those are addressed to Coordinator at either my 303 address or my 12/0 address. I have all my node numbers
    as AKA, and while I would have to check to be certain right now, I'm pretty sure that I have coordinator as an aka as well. None of these
    are imported, so I do not see those netmails, other then with another
    old reader. Is there anything special I have to do to get those
    imported?

    Was wondering the same thing but I have Frontdoor's FM editor to see them. I get "Unknown User" in sbbsecho log unless I delete them. It's no biggie for me as I read and delete anyway.


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