-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
    >   
    > Yes, fidoin is triggered by a semaphore ONLY.  Being I have downlinks, as   
    > soon as sbbsecho does it's thing importing, it creates outbound pkt's, as   
    > you well know. I run a timed event for fidoout incase there are any *.msg's   
    > sitting in my netmail so they get converted and sent.  I don't get many   
    > callers but if someone wants to send a netmail, I really don't want it   
    > sitting around waiting for fidoout to run.   
      
    DM> The solution to that is set set SCFG->Networks->FidoNet->NetMail   
    DM> Semaphore to your ../data/fidoout.now file. Then whenever Synchronet   
    DM> creates a NetMail message (e.g. a user sends NetMail), then the   
    DM> "FIDOUT" event will run.   
      
   OK... I was using a different semaphore (fdrescan.now) from my old IRex days.   
   :)  Hey, it worked... :)   
      
    >  DM> The normal/best way to run SBBSecho (for both import and export) is   
    >  DM> *only* from the Synchronet event thread. This will insure that there is   
    >  DM> only one instance of SBBSecho running at a time and avoid race   
    >  DM> conditions that could cause the kind of error you reported.   
    >   
    > Agreed, but now that you told me the stray pk_ gets converted after 60   
    > minutes, i'm not too worried.  Yes, statistically two instances can, and   
    > have run together but it doesn't create a huge issue.   
      
    DM> If you're only running one instance of Synchronet and SBBSecho is only   
    DM> run via Synchronet timed-event, then two instance shouldn't be able to   
    DM> run concurrently. (Unless you have the events configured for   
    DM> "background execution", which you should not).   
      
   Just the one instance of Synchronet.... and nothing is set for background   
   execution.  :)   
      
   Let's see what happens... :)   
      
      
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