Hello Andrew!   
      
   Friday August 11 2017 18:24, you wrote to All:   
      
    > Hello everybody!   
      
    > I have discovered an issue that can manifest itself when archived   
    > segments are submitted to the next *C up the chain.  When archiving   
    > the new segment prior to submission, MakeNL doesn't check to see if   
    > the archive already exists.  The result is submission of an archive   
    > containing the new segment, as well as an older one.   
      
    > There are two solutions that I've come up with:   
      
    > 1.  MakeNL check for an existing archive and remove it prior to   
    > archiving the segment for submission. 2.  When uncompressing incoming   
    > segment archives, compare file dates on all files unpacked and use the   
    > most recent.   
      
    > What do you think?  I'm leaning towards number 2 first, as that will   
    > help in cases where the lower level *C hasn't upgraded his version of   
    > MakeNL yet.   
      
    > As a work around, the problem can be avoided by disabling the   
    > compression of submitted segments by adding:   
      
    > THReshold -1 -1   
      
    > to your control file.   
      
   I just use a script that runs the program that deletes residual files in the   
   netmail and outbound areas prior to running makenl - see below :   
      
   ----   
   #!/bin/sh   
      
   . . . removed rem. lines   
      
   export MBSE_ROOT=/home/mbse   
      
   # kill off old *.msg and net250.nnn / region25.nnn node segments   
      
   rm -f $MBSE_ROOT/etc/makenl/outbound/region25.*   
   rm -f $MBSE_ROOT/etc/makenl/outbound/region30.*   
   rm -f $MBSE_ROOT/etc/makenl/netmail/*.*   
      
      
   cd $MBSE_ROOT/etc/makenl   
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/makenl region.ctl >> makenl.log 2>>makenl.err   
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/makenl region-kees.ctl >> makenl.log 2>>makenl.err   
      
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/makenl region30.ctl >> makenl30.log 2>>makenl30.err   
      
      
   # Send for region 25 fidonet   
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbout a f5003.n280.z2 c ./outbound/region25K.* -q   
      
      
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbout a f854.n292.z2 c ./outbound/region25.* -q   
      
   # Send for region 30 sportnet   
   $MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbout a f0.n24.z24 c ./outbound/region30.* -q   
      
   exit   
   ----   
      
   Note that the ./outbound/   section remaps to /home/mbse/etc/makenl/outbound   
   prior to running the script and that my system root for mailer operations is   
   at /home/mbse.   
      
   I am running makenl v3.4.5  but show that latest is 3.4.6 in my files area.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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