Hi Rich,   
      
   > I had my mail events setup as a cron job... didn't work out too well. Seems   
   >that if bbbsrun.c is present in the bbbs/work directory the cron job won't run   
      
   That is an example of why I started using Cronjobs, and commented out all   
   other scanning/packing in the script that runs the bbs nodes.. (like my modem   
   line script, and also node2's dialout script).  Do you have scanning/tossing   
   in them?   
      
   Cron is the only place it is run, every 45 min   
      
   */45 * * * * /home/bbbs/mailin.sh   
   42 13-14 * * *  /home/bbbs/getnews.sh   
      
   ==getnews.sh==   
   ./bbbs bnntp w 1 news.mixmin.net  [<--you don't need this obviously] ./bbbs   
   bnntp r 1 news.mixmin.net  [<--or this] ./bbbs bogus r   
   ./bbbs btick   
   ===========   
      
   Note the different times these are run, so they don't "clash"    
      
   > On to having it toss / scan after a mail delivery or user logs off. I figured   
   >that if I had a fidopoll.bz file under linux it would work... unless my comman   
   > line is wrong..   
      
   > This is what I have...:   
   > // #include    
   > {   
   > char up;   
   > {   
   > up=sprintf("\\home\\richringer\\bbbs\\mailin.sh");}   
   > }   
   > I took the onde from my Windows setup and edited it to call the linux script.   
      
   > Did I go about this the wrong way?   
      
   Well, I don't think you need the double \\ in the path.. on your linux system,   
   you would use a line like this I expect:   
      
   "up=sprintf("/home/richringer/bbbs/mailin.sh"   
      
   But that line doesn't also deal with mail out scanning... which the original   
   script seems to also take into account   
      
   int main(int direction, int status, char aka) { [...]   
      
   I've never used the scripts in the script/ directory to toss/scan mail   
   though.. Maybe Jame will let us know how he tosses/scans mail on his linux   
   system.   
      
   > I did notice a gotmail.bz and gotmail.bzb...   
      
   Well, I would copy any file I changed from it's original to something like   
   gotmail.bz-old first .  Just in case   there is an example gotmail.bz   
   script in sysop.gui and sysop.txt.   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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