Greetings All!

I am in the process of moving my BBS (mystic,binkd,hpt) works flawlessly and as expected. I moved the everything to a new machine with same user name etc so all file structures are the same, the only thing changed is I had to build binkd which gave me a new version which is binkd-1.1a-112 and now no mail tosses at all it just sits in my inb. The first go after receiving mail as part of binkd.cfg it would run the exec line with my tosser but fail for some reason. I reinstalled now in bink log it shows creating semaphore but doesnt even attempt to run the exec line to run hpt... Has anyone else ran into this? The working copy on my bbs is -111 can perhaps someone give me a link to that?





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Rick Smith (Nitro)

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Hello Rick,

Sunday March 14 2021, Rick Smith wrote to All:

I am in the process of moving my BBS (mystic,binkd,hpt) works
flawlessly and as expected. I moved the everything to a new machine
with same user name etc so all file structures are the same, the only thing changed is I had to build binkd which gave me a new version
which is binkd-1.1a-112 and now no mail tosses at all it just sits in
my inb. The first go after receiving mail as part of binkd.cfg it
would run the exec line with my tosser but fail for some reason. I reinstalled now in bink log it shows creating semaphore but doesnt
even attempt to run the exec line to run hpt... Has anyone else ran
into this? The working copy on my bbs is -111 can perhaps someone
give me a link to that?

If you want to have the sources of binkd-1.1a-111, give this command:

git checkout fbca4b0

To return to the latest commit:

git checkout master

Michael

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Hello Rick!

Sunday March 14 2021 10:21, you wrote to All:

I am in the process of moving my BBS (mystic,binkd,hpt) works
flawlessly and as expected. I moved the everything to a new machine
with same user name etc so all file structures are the same, the only thing changed is I had to build binkd which gave me a new version
which is binkd-1.1a-112 and now no mail tosses at all it just sits in
my inb. The first go after receiving mail as part of binkd.cfg it
would run the exec line with my tosser but fail for some reason. I reinstalled now in bink log it shows creating semaphore but doesnt
even attempt to run the exec line to run hpt... Has anyone else ran
into this? The working copy on my bbs is -111 can perhaps someone
give me a link to that?

If something doesn't run - always try to check the PATH and try to exec with absolute pathnames to binary and options for config.

Serg

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Hello Rick,

I am in the process of moving my BBS (mystic,binkd,hpt) works
flawlessly and as expected. I moved the everything to a new machine
with same user name etc so all file structures are the same, the only thing changed is I had to build binkd which gave me a new version
which is binkd-1.1a-112 and now no mail tosses at all it just sits in
my inb. The first go after receiving mail as part of binkd.cfg it
would run the exec line with my tosser but fail for some reason. I reinstalled now in bink log it shows creating semaphore but doesnt
even attempt to run the exec line to run hpt... Has anyone else ran
into this? The working copy on my bbs is -111 can perhaps someone
give me a link to that?

You can use flag files (semaphores) if your tosser uses them, like Synchronet or you can use exec lines.

I haven't used flag files for a while. I use an exec line like this with hpt..


==== Begin: "rick.txt" ====
exec "/usr/local/bin/hpt-incoming.sh" *.[pP][kK][tT] *.[STFWMstfwm][ouaherOUAHER][0-9A-Za-z] *.[tT][iI][cC]
==== End: "rick.txt" ====

That's all one line.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Binkd not working
By: Alan Ianson to Rick Smith on Sun Mar 14 2021 16:01:56

exec "/usr/local/bin/hpt-incoming.sh" *.[pP][kK][tT] *.[STFWMstfwm][ouaherOUAHER][0-9A-Za-z] *.[tT][iI][cC]

what are the contents of hpt-incoming.sh?


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Hello mark,

exec "/usr/local/bin/hpt-incoming.sh" *.[pP][kK][tT]
*.[STFWMstfwm][ouaherOUAHER][0-9A-Za-z] *.[tT][iI][cC]

I have another exec line below that one that touches dotic.now to signal htick to toss incoming files.


==== Begin: "mark.txt" ====
exec "! touch /usr/local/fido/dotic.now" *.[tT][iI][cC]
==== End: "mark.txt" ====

what are the contents of hpt-incoming.sh?

==== Begin: "hpt-incoming.sh" ====
#!/bin/bash
# This script will run HPT on incoming to toss & pack mail

hpt -q toss link
htick -q scan
hpt -q pack

if [ -f /usr/local/fido/dotic.now ]; then
rm /usr/local/fido/dotic.now
/usr/local/bin/htick toss
/usr/local/bin/mfreq-index
fi
==== End: "hpt-incoming.sh" ====

Ttyl :-),
Al

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