Hi Janis,   
   I found a script that was calling mail tossing / scanning. It was not working   
   properly so I eliminated it. All mail tossing / scanning is now being done via   
   cron jobs and working like a German train schedule. Right on time! With no   
   error's.   
   Now I can move onto the next part.   
      
   Thanks,   
   Rich   
      
   > 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 ru   
   >That is an example of why I started using Cronjobs, and commented out all othe   
   > 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 comma   
   >> 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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