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|    Deon George to Andrew Leary    |
|    Re: Magic File Requests    |
|    15 Sep 18 13:05:45    |
      On 09/15/18, Andrew Leary said the following...        AL> Try renaming it to STATUS (all uppercase.)              Hmm... I'm not sure that will do anything (as I would have expected an error       in the logs if it were the case).              To be honest, I dont know how they work?              So I renamed it uppercase, but the req file is still sitting in the inbound              mbse@874a834fd027:~/data$ ls -al inbound magic/       inbound:       total 4       drwxr-x--- 2 mbse bbs 26 Sep 15 23:04 .       drwxr-xr-x 24 mbse bbs 292 Sep 7 23:01 ..       -rw------- 1 mbse bbs 7 Sep 14 11:18 027901fd.req              magic/:       total 8       drwxr-x--- 2 mbse bbs 36 Sep 15 22:59 .       drwxr-xr-x 24 mbse bbs 292 Sep 7 23:01 ..       -rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs 11 Sep 14 08:33 FSX_NODE       -rwxr-xr-x 1 mbse bbs 310 Sep 5 22:29 STATUS              What triggers the req to be processed?              (And I'm assuming sending a req file is a FREQ right?)              ...deon              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: Chinwag | MysticBBS in Docker! (3:633/509.1)    |
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