home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   MBSE      The Linux/FreeBSD MBSE BBS Support Echo      2,445 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,660 of 2,445   
   Rj Clay to Vince Coen   
   The var/bso directories   
   02 Dec 17 07:30:59   
   
   Hi Vince!   
      
   Vince Coen wrote to Rj Clay:   
   VC> Hello Rj!   
   VC>    
   VC> Friday December 01 2017 08:44, you wrote to All:   
       
   VC>  >    What is the prupose of the var/ticqueue directory and does it ever   
   VC>  > get cleaned up? ....   
       
   VC> Hold all of the active .tic files so if empty you should have no o/p when   
   VC> running mbout sta  (apart from the headings and version info.   
   VC>    
   VC> So if restoring from an old back up suggest you delete them and likewise    
   VC> the contents of var/bso/outbound*  but keep the directories.   
      
      Those all I still need to finish reviewing, as not only are there still    
   .sts   
   (status files, IIRC?) going back as far as 2004 but there are also things like   
   .flo files timestamped from 2010.  The old *.sts files can likely be removed   
   but things like those old .flo files I'll need to check more closely.   
        
      On a separate issue; I've also found a number of *.sa# (where "#" is a    
   single   
   digit) files that have zero size, all from earier this morning at different   
   times.  I'll have to check the logs to see if there's anything about what    
   might   
    have happened.   
             
      
   VC> outbound* = outbound.001 , .002, .003 and .004 your own zone will be just   
   VC> outbound without any number after.   
   VC>    
   VC> Oh, you could also have other nets here as well so delete the contents.   
      
      Yes, I do indeed; a number of which haven't been touched for over a decade.   
   Preumably, if they also have only old *.sts file or are empty then they can    
   just   
   be deleted.  (And would be recreated again if needed...)   
      
       
      
   Jame   
      
      
       Greetings, Rj Clay   
       email: admftn@ftn.rocasa.net   
      
   --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8 (GNU/Linux-i386)   
    * Origin: ftn.rocasa.net (1:120/544)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca