1. Forum
  2. FidoNet
  3. SYNC SYSOPS

  • Echo message loss

    From Lupine Furmen@1:103/705 to All on Tue Nov 5 22:45:16 2019
    I don't know what is going on, I do a %rescan on my FTN feed, areafix responds that it's rescanning 300+ messages in 55 echoes, but they are not showing up in
    my message bases. I've rechecked my message base settings, but the messages are
    just vanishing into the ether. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    -+-

    -Dallas Vinson
    Furmens Folly - telnet: loybbs.net:23
    SSH: loybbs.net:23222
    Before the Web - telnet: loybbs.net:23232
    Legends of Yesteryear - telnet: loybbs.net:23322

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Furmen's Folly - furmenservices.net:23
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Lupine Furmen on Wed Nov 6 08:28:00 2019
    Lupine Furmen wrote to All <=-

    I don't know what is going on, I do a %rescan on my FTN feed,
    areafix responds that it's rescanning 300+ messages in 55 echoes,
    but they are not showing up in my message bases. I've rechecked
    my message base settings, but the messages are just vanishing
    into the ether. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -+-

    My guess is that those messages are already in your message base,
    so when they show up again, SBBSecho is seeing them as dupes.

    Look at /sbbs/data/sbbsecho.log and see if you see evidence of
    that.



    ... If it walks out of your refrigerator, let it go.
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Lupine Furmen@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Wed Nov 6 19:20:07 2019
    Re: Re: Echo message loss
    By: Gamgee to Lupine Furmen on Wed Nov 06 2019 08:28:00

    My guess is that those messages are already in your message base,
    so when they show up again, SBBSecho is seeing them as dupes.

    Nope, SBBS is showing that there are 0 messages total in the echoes.
    -+-

    -Dallas Vinson
    Furmens Folly - telnet: loybbs.net:23
    SSH: loybbs.net:23222
    Before the Web - telnet: loybbs.net:23232
    Legends of Yesteryear - telnet: loybbs.net:23322

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Furmen's Folly - furmenservices.net:23
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Lupine Furmen on Thu Nov 7 07:33:00 2019
    Lupine Furmen wrote to Gamgee <=-

    My guess is that those messages are already in your message base,
    so when they show up again, SBBSecho is seeing them as dupes.

    Nope, SBBS is showing that there are 0 messages total in the
    echoes.

    OK..... what does sbbsecho.log say? That's the key to figuring it
    out. Perhaps it doesn't know where to put the messages? All the
    areas are defined properly in SCFG? Your AREAS.BBS file is
    accurate?



    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Rampage@1:103/705 to Lupine Furmen on Thu Nov 7 09:58:57 2019
    Re: Re: Echo message loss
    By: Lupine Furmen to Gamgee on Wed Nov 06 2019 19:20:07


    My guess is that those messages are already in your message base,
    so when they show up again, SBBSecho is seeing them as dupes.

    Nope, SBBS is showing that there are 0 messages total in the echoes.

    the messages may not be there but their signatures may still be in the dupe database...

    consider an FTN area... the spec says MSGID cannot repeat for three years so maybe you set your dupe retention to 1100 days (just over three years)... now, you only want to keep say 60 days of messages in the areas... so messages older than 60 days are purged but their signatures are retained for 1100...


    )\/(ark

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ The SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Lupine Furmen@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Thu Nov 7 22:45:45 2019
    Re: Re: Echo message loss
    By: Gamgee to Lupine Furmen on Thu Nov 07 2019 07:33:00

    OK..... what does sbbsecho.log say? That's the key to figuring it
    out. Perhaps it doesn't know where to put the messages? All the
    areas are defined properly in SCFG? Your AREAS.BBS file is
    accurate?

    It's all working now. I think it was all down to the areas.bbs file. Had to make some manual changes inside the file and put it in the data folder rather than in the CTRL folder where I had been told to put it.
    -+-

    -Dallas Vinson
    Furmens Folly - telnet: loybbs.net:23
    SSH: loybbs.net:23222
    Before the Web - telnet: loybbs.net:23232
    Legends of Yesteryear - telnet: loybbs.net:23322

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Furmen's Folly - furmenservices.net:23
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Lupine Furmen on Fri Nov 8 07:27:00 2019
    Lupine Furmen wrote to Gamgee <=-

    OK..... what does sbbsecho.log say? That's the key to figuring it
    out. Perhaps it doesn't know where to put the messages? All the
    areas are defined properly in SCFG? Your AREAS.BBS file is
    accurate?

    It's all working now. I think it was all down to the areas.bbs
    file. Had to make some manual changes inside the file and put it
    in the data folder rather than in the CTRL folder where I had
    been told to put it. -+-

    Not sure who would have told you to put it there...

    It's clearly documented:

    http://wiki.synchro.net/util:sbbsecho#area_file


    ... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)