Hi Everyone,

I installed Solar Realms Elite on my system using instructions from this site: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Documentation.html

I used a program called RunAsDate to run SRE RESET with a date of 1-1-1999: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

What I noticed is that the time available is set to 0 for the DOORFILE.SR that is added to the door folder. I'm wondering if this is correct?

When using the value of 0 here the door returns back the system with an error "Your out of time". I was able to use the time settings in SCFG to add 99 minutes which output 99 into the time field for the DOORFILE.SR and allowed the door game to play. I wanted to point this out as I would expect the DOORFILE.SR to output the value of the timeleft for the user on the system and not 0.

This is the DOORFILE.SR that is output by the bbs system.

Electrosys
1
1
24
38400
1
0

This is the definition of the DOORFILE.SR from the SRDOOR.DOC from SRE0994B

username
ansi-status
ibm-char-status
page-length
baud-rate
com-port
time-limit
real-name

Just thought I would point this out as it seems like a bug in Synchronet?

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Electrosys to All on Sun Apr 24 2022 08:55 am

Hi Everyone,

I installed Solar Realms Elite on my system using instructions from this site: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Documentation.html

I used a program called RunAsDate to run SRE RESET with a date of 1-1-1999: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

What I noticed is that the time available is set to 0 for the DOORFILE.SR that is added to the door folder. I'm wondering if this is correct?

Not normally, no.

When using the value of 0 here the door returns back the system with an error "Your out of time". I was able to use the time settings in SCFG to add 99 minutes which output 99 into the time field for the DOORFILE.SR and allowed the door game to play.

Interesting. I do wonder if you could help figure out how you're getting a 0 in that time-left line. Does that happen for all users?

I wanted to point this out as I would expect
the DOORFILE.SR to output the value of the timeleft for the user on the system and not 0.

Me too.

This is the DOORFILE.SR that is output by the bbs system.

Electrosys
1
1
24
38400
1
0

Here's the DOORFILE.SR generated by my BBS when I'm logged on as level 99 (with a time-per-day of 500 minutes) and the 'T' exemption:

Digital Man
1
1
24
38400
1
500

This is the definition of the DOORFILE.SR from the SRDOOR.DOC from SRE0994B

username
ansi-status
ibm-char-status
page-length
baud-rate
com-port
time-limit
real-name

Interesting that they added a 'real-name' line there. I didn't know that.

Just thought I would point this out as it seems like a bug in Synchronet?

It could be. What do you set for your security level time per day and time per call values? Does your user have the 'T' exemption? If I can reprodocue the scenario, I can fix the problem.
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Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Apr 24 2022 10:25 am

It could be. What do you set for your security level time per day and time per call values? Does your user have the 'T' exemption? If I can reprodocu

It actually does appear to be writing the correct value to the DOORFILE.SR. I am set for 500 minutes per call and 500 minutes per day. It appears that I have used all of it because I appear to have used 637+ mins today. My sysop user does not have the T exemption.

Thanks for helping look at this a little closer. From looking more closely at the SCFG and my user I do appear to be getting the expected results.

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Apr 24 2022 07:55 pm

Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Apr 24 2022 10:25 am

It could be. What do you set for your security level time per day and time per call values? Does your user have the 'T' exemption? If I can reprodocu

It actually does appear to be writing the correct value to the DOORFILE.SR. I am set for 500 minutes per call and 500 minutes per day. It appears that I have used all of it because I appear to have used 637+ mins today. My sysop user does not have the T exemption.

Thanks for helping look at this a little closer. From looking more closely at the SCFG and my user I do appear to be getting the expected results.

I would expected you to be disconnected if you did not have the 'T' exemption and you were out of time. Something seems weird there.
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digital man (rob)

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Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Mon Apr 25 2022 12:55 pm

Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Apr 24 2022 07:55 pm

Re: Install Solar Realms Elite 994b SRE0994B
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Apr 24 2022 10:25 am

It could be. What do you set for your security level time per day and time per call values? Does your user have the 'T' exemption? If I can reprodocu

It actually does appear to be writing the correct value to the DOORFILE.SR. I am set for 500 minutes per call and 500 minutes per day. It appears that I have used all of it because I appear to have used 637+ mins today. My sysop user does not have the T exemption.

Thanks for helping look at this a little closer. From looking more closely at the SCFG and my user I do appear to be getting the expected results.

I would expected you to be disconnected if you did not have the 'T' exemption and you were out of time. Something seems weird there.

Ah, sysops (level 90+) are never disconnected, even when out of time. I forgot about that.
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