• A47 Updates etc.

    From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Fri Apr 16 05:18:00 2021
    Your fine to wait for a real release. Your pretty new to Mystic so fighting through Alphas may not be for you. You'll notice even Avon doesn't update all or even most of the servers. I'm still having issues, but it's not the semaphores anymore, it's the Events. I'm likely doing something to hang the system in the Events. I have my Bot running via cron which is working fine
    for now. That's always been my fall back in these positions.

    I have a !I in the Message menu to force incoming messages to be processed
    by anyone on the BBS. I've found !O isn't really needed - that works all the time (outgoing messages the semaphore handles fine).

    So, bottom line - stick to releases for now. Alpha's aren't for everyone ;)

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to bcw142 on Fri Apr 16 16:21:24 2021
    doesn't update all or even most of the servers. I'm still having issues, but it's not the semaphores anymore, it's the Events. I'm likely doing something to hang the system in the Events. I have my Bot running via

    Ya i have noticed something like that happening on my system. what is even weirder, is on my DEV system which is a complete VM clone on my PROD system,
    i tried to disable the events so the DEV one wont keep polling the other
    BBSs. however when i close down the mystic -cfg, and go back in, the events reappear as active again. so weird lol. for a while i was having issues in my PROD system not polling at all, but when i looked in the events, i saw it was trying to use the wrong / old script to poll with. i finally got that one fixed. it did take some tinkering with it though a few times. i noticed the same issue in my PROD system as well. after saveing and closing out of the modified event, when i return back in, the even reappears as it was
    originally written before i modified it... i though i was maybe saving it
    wrong or something....

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to gcubebuddy on Fri Apr 16 21:35:39 2021
    Hello gcubebuddy!

    On 16 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
    polling the other BBSs. however when i close down the mystic -cfg, and
    go back in, the events reappear as active again. so weird lol. for a

    I've also had this happen (kind of) -- modifying a command line of an event and then later finding out that the change had reverted itself. But it doesn't happen all the time so it's hard to pinpoint what could be causing it...

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Fri Apr 16 16:32:56 2021
    On 16 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
    Ya i have noticed something like that happening on my system. what is
    even weirder, is on my DEV system which is a complete VM clone on my
    PROD system, i tried to disable the events so the DEV one wont keep polling the other BBSs. however when i close down the mystic -cfg, and
    go back in, the events reappear as active again. so weird lol. for a
    while i was having issues in my PROD system not polling at all, but when
    i looked in the events, i saw it was trying to use the wrong / old
    script to poll with. i finally got that one fixed. it did take some tinkering with it though a few times. i noticed the same issue in my
    PROD system as well. after saveing and closing out of the modified
    event, when i return back in, the even reappears as it was originally written before i modified it... i though i was maybe saving it wrong or something....

    It may be we have to restart when we make changes to the Events, like we do
    for the servers. It may be running the old setup till we restart. In my case with Raspbian I use:

    #!/bin/bash
    # restart mis
    cd /mystic
    sudo ./mis shutdown ; sleep 20 ; sudo ./mis daemon

    Which does the full restart of the BBS. It's a Pi3 so it's not as fast as the current stuff which is why the 20 second sleep, It tended to fail if I did less waiting on my system. On my PC I can get away with sleep 10 there.

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to bcw142 on Mon Apr 19 12:26:53 2021
    Which does the full restart of the BBS. It's a Pi3 so it's not as fast
    as the current stuff which is why the 20 second sleep, It tended to fail if I did less waiting on my system. On my PC I can get away with sleep
    10 there.

    Wow, interesting. I have thought of creating a second node with a RPi. but it will have to wait till i get the main one built to what i want.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Tue Apr 20 20:57:22 2021
    On 19 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

    Wow, interesting. I have thought of creating a second node with a RPi.
    but it will have to wait till i get the main one built to what i want.

    You'll find RPi raspbian to be almost the same as Ubuntu and others so you
    can generally copy the file structure over and then install the RPi version
    of the executables over that and it should be up and running. It's much the same as an upgrade between Mystic versions. That works both ways, you do the same to go from RPi to PC Linux. Windows takes more work, but much of the
    paths and things are designed to be compatible within Mystic and many
    commands are aliased within Mystic-DOS. I tend to further alias Windows, DOS and Linux commands in .bashrc and such so the shells are much the same as
    well. You'll find many people do which is why Mystic-DOS is like that as well,

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to bcw142 on Wed Apr 21 11:57:22 2021
    You'll find RPi raspbian to be almost the same as Ubuntu and others so
    you can generally copy the file structure over and then install the RPi version of the executables over that and it should be up and running.
    It's much the same as an upgrade between Mystic versions. That works

    wow cool! that would make it alot easyer to make a 2nd node with RPi. i will have to look more at that in the future, once i get the core of the BBS to my liking.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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