• filebox

    From Gregory Deyss@21:1/101 to All on Sun Mar 31 15:14:16 2019

    Nodes are not getting their files that they have sent a filefix
    request for.

    (I had downlink node test if he could send an inquiry to filefix, it did give the proper response) Reported successfully that file areas that he had signed up for. In addition, I have confirmed within the configuration for these nodes that they have linked to file areas, but no files are being sent I not sure if the directory is to long c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n150
    ^^^^^^^^^^
    I have this setup for each of my nodes. The directory is confirmed to exist
    for each.

    The FDN is located on g:\
    at G:\bbshub\fdn\
    Under the fdn directory there are several sub-directrories
    badfile
    of which has several files such as FGV13n04.zip along with nodefiff and nodelists all of these files have tic files for each.
    (the file directories below - have the normal tossed files that they should
    be within those directories.
    (the dates of these files date range from 10/18 to 03/22)
    fgazette
    fidonews
    nodediff
    nodelist
    I am not understanding why the badfile directory has files within it, because there appears to be normal tossing within the directory structure of g:\bbshub\fdn\

    Is the badfile directory the place holder for the files that are to be sent
    out to nodes? if so.
    What needs to be defined within mutil.ini so that these files are processed correctly.

    I have not placed any files manually into c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n150\
    My thoughts are that it would work and the files would be sent, but the the problem is that these file areas and the files the come in are not appearing
    or being copied into the box.

    Thanks in advance for all replies and assistance.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Gregory Deyss on Mon Apr 1 15:46:37 2019
    On 31 Mar 2019 at 11:14a, Gregory Deyss pondered and said...

    I am not understanding why the badfile directory has files within it, because there appears to be normal tossing within the directory
    structure of g:\bbshub\fdn\

    It essentially means there's an issue with the files being tossed by Mystic
    and because of that they are being placed in the bad file directory. The
    MUTIL logs will show what is up.

    Given we worked on setting this up together I'm only to happy to have a look
    at your system and help trouble shoot what is amiss.

    Is the badfile directory the place holder for the files that are to be sent out to nodes? if so.

    Nope, see above comments

    What needs to be defined within mutil.ini so that these files are processed correctly.

    Mutil should have the FileToss function enabled, the fact you have files in
    bad file area, tells me it is :)

    I have not placed any files manually into c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n150\
    My thoughts are that it would work and the files would be sent, but the the problem is that these file areas and the files the come in are not appearing or being copied into the box.

    Correct, we need to suss the issue first then retoss the files using MUTIL
    then linked echonodes will get their files placed into their respective fileboxes by MUTIL.

    Thanks in advance for all replies and assistance.

    Best, Paul

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Gregory Deyss on Tue Apr 2 00:51:39 2019
    On 01 Apr 2019 at 11:46a, Avon pondered and said...

    It essentially means there's an issue with the files being tossed by Mystic and because of that they are being placed in the bad file directory. The MUTIL logs will show what is up.

    Given we worked on setting this up together I'm only to happy to have a look at your system and help trouble shoot what is amiss.

    I checked on the logs Greg and the issue was that you had a switch in each
    file base set to HUB mode when in your case (I know is seems weird) you don't want that on.

    Essentially the switch disables nodes from being able to route files via the HUB.

    Logs showed this.

    [snip]

    - Apr 01 03:30:03 Replace "FGV13N12.ZIP"
    + Apr 01 03:30:04 Added to FDN: Fidonet Gazette
    + Apr 01 03:30:04 Not sending to links; this system is hub
    + Apr 01 03:30:04 Scanning Hatches

    [snip]

    I checked passwords etc, were also correct then did a re-toss of the files from the bad directory and all worked fine except one really old file from 2018
    that had some CRC issue. I deleted that one.

    Here's a snippet from the logs:

    [snip]

    + Apr 01 03:34:17 File FNEWTA03.ZIP Area FIDONEWS From 3:770/1
    + Apr 01 03:34:18 Added to FDN: FidoNews (aka The Snooze)
    + Apr 01 03:34:18 Export to 1:267/150 c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n150\
    + Apr 01 03:34:18 Export to 1:267/157 c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n157\
    + Apr 01 03:34:18 Export to 1:267/67 c:\mystichub\filebox\fidonet_z1n267n67\

    [snip]

    + Apr 01 03:34:20 Scanning Hatches
    + Apr 01 03:34:20 Results: 16 import, 44 toss, 0 hatch, 1 bad in 2.31s

    [snip]

    I think this fixes the issues at your Fido HUB but let's keep and eye on it
    and if you spot anything else amiss let me know and I'll re-vist things for
    you :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Avon on Mon Apr 1 11:03:57 2019
    Thanks Avon, I was the 267/157 that got hatched.. :) Probably have a ton of
    new files waiting to look at now.. :) Thanks..

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Avon on Mon Apr 1 11:05:14 2019
    Oh yea the files got out... I got a ton of files today! :)

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  • From Deyssman@21:1/127 to Bucko on Tue Apr 2 00:27:36 2019

    On 01 Apr 2019, Bucko said the following...

    Thanks Avon, I was the 267/157 that got hatched.. :) Probably have a ton of new files waiting to look at now.. :) Thanks..

    I am glad things are coming together.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Deyssman on Tue Apr 2 22:22:01 2019

    On 01 Apr 2019, Deyssman said the following...



    I am glad things are coming together.


    Oh yea they definitly came together.. LOL I got loaded with files the other day. Glad they are off your system though.. :)

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  • From Deyssman@21:1/127 to Bucko on Wed Apr 3 02:07:42 2019
    On 02 Apr 2019, Bucko said the following...

    Oh yea they definitly came together.. LOL I got loaded with files the other day. Glad they are off your system though.. :)

    What do you mean ?
    if there is ever a time that you are not getting mail or (files) then I would like to take a look or try to have a better understanding as to why things are a miss and not working the way things should work. (I would also prefer not
    to have these moments.) but the important thing is that they get addressed
    and resolved.

    Meaning if you are addressing filefix I want to make sure you getting every thing that you or another node queried up for.

    Additionally if you want at any time to sign on the BBS at telnet://csbbs.dyndns.org and get the rest of files that ones you don't have. Feel free to connect and grab them.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Deyssman on Wed Apr 3 11:44:18 2019
    No we're good I got everything and all seems to be working grest now .. I
    will let you know if there are any issues.. Thsnks for all you do..

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  • From Deyssman@21:1/127 to Bucko on Wed Apr 3 21:35:26 2019
    On 03 Apr 2019, Bucko said the following...

    No we're good I got everything and all seems to be working grest now ..
    I will let you know if there are any issues.. Thsnks for all you do..

    You are welcome :)
    Thanks, for being a part of it.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Deyssman on Wed Apr 3 23:16:25 2019

    On 03 Apr 2019, Deyssman said the following...

    On 03 Apr 2019, Bucko said the following...

    No we're good I got everything and all seems to be working grest now I will let you know if there are any issues.. Thsnks for all you do..

    You are welcome :)
    Thanks, for being a part of it.

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    Last time I respond to a message on my phone! Grest?? LOL No problem glad you got everything fixed... :)

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