• A46 discussion: CHATx.DAT

    From g00r00@21:1/108 to All on Mon Feb 17 22:30:24 2020
    I am planning on adding a "Process ID" as a field in CHATx.DAT data file which should be insigifnicant to almost everyone. But I wanted to mention it here so people are aware of the potential change.

    A few scripts or third party utilities may be reading the file. As of right now I have no plans to change anything else and since its a file that contains a single record it may not even bother existing code that reads it.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to g00r00 on Tue Feb 18 20:39:14 2020
    On 17 Feb 2020 at 10:30p, g00r00 pondered and said...

    I am planning on adding a "Process ID" as a field in CHATx.DAT data file

    Just on this. I noticed some reports of errors appearing the the logging of some nodes and also saw this at Agency when looking at logs prior to updating to the latest build.

    [snip]

    2020.14.02 21:54:49 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=223384
    2020.14.02 22:23:41 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=226868
    2020.15.02 00:49:06 MYSTIC 003 Unable to access users file
    2020.15.02 21:24:12 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=258508
    2020.15.02 22:05:27 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=266052
    2020.16.02 14:09:42 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=291200

    [snip]

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Avon on Tue Feb 18 03:25:12 2020
    Just on this. I noticed some reports of errors appearing the the logging of some nodes and also saw this at Agency when looking at logs prior to updating to the latest build.

    Just on this. I noticed some reports of errors appearing the the logging of some nodes and also saw this at Agency when looking at logs prior to updating to the latest build.

    These are very intersting. Can you tell me what version of Windows you use (not specific but like XP, 7, Vista, 10, etc)

    2020.14.02 21:54:49 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to c:\bbs\mystic\data\chat1.dat. Code=2, PID=223384

    I'm very tired and I can't think through this right at the moment but I recently added this logging for a reason. I think this log should never be able to happen and obviously it has!

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to g00r00 on Tue Feb 18 21:38:08 2020
    On 18 Feb 2020 at 03:25a, g00r00 pondered and said...

    These are very intersting. Can you tell me what version of Windows you use (not specific but like XP, 7, Vista, 10, etc)

    Windows 7 32bit for this...

    I'm very tired and I can't think through this right at the moment but I recently added this logging for a reason. I think this log should never be able to happen and obviously it has!

    Get some sleep :) Say's the guy up late watching some cargo resupply dock
    with the ISS...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/16 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)