> Thank you Jeff, so if I well understand you don't use the internal event of   
   >BBBS. So in essence you call different scripts by crontab. Do you have a scrip   
   > to poll your nodes?   
      
   ===Mailin.sh===   
   #!/bin/sh   
   cd /home/bbbs   
   ./bbbs bogus w &   
   ./bbbs btick &   
   exit   
   ====   
      
   The & tells linux to run the bbbs commands in the background.   
      
   ===Mailout.sh===   
   #!/bin/sh   
   cd /home/bbbs   
   ./bbbs bogus r &   
   exit   
   ===   
      
   This is my cronfile that runs them:   
      
   ===cronfile.bbs4===   
   MAILTO=janis@filegate.net   
   */10 * * * *  /home/bbbs/mailin.sh   
   */12 * * * *  /home/bbbs/mailout.sh   
   ===   
      
   I call the cronfile.bbs4 file like this:   
      
   crontab -u bbs cronfile.bbs4   
      
   The first line in cronfile.bbs4 sends me an email everytime an event is run.   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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