Subj : Re: Door problems
To   : Digital Man
From : Cisop
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 09:30 pm

 >   Re: Re: Door problems
 >   By: Cisop to Digital Man on Sun Sep 25 2005 01:03 pm
 > 
 >  > I have found a way to make both doors run. I don't know why but hopefully
 > yo
 >  > can shed a little light on it.
 >  > I wanted to see if I could stop the door with a window open so I ran it
 > from
 >  > batch file like this.
 >  > 
 >  > set SBBSNODE=C:\sbbs\node1\
 >  > dmud32
 >  > pause
 >  > 
 >  > The door worked fine. I wrote a similiar batch file for Trivia and it 
also
 >  > worked fine.
 >  > 
 >  > I checked to see what environmental was set for SBBSNODE in windows. The
 >  > variable being set was c:\sbbs\node1. Note that here is no trailing
 > backslas
 >  > 
 >  > I have no idea why this problem appeared all of a sudden with the sbbs
 >  > upgrade. I don't know what sets the SBBSNODE variable.
 >  > 
 >  > Anyway we are up and runnig again!!!
 > 
 > Thank you very much, you found bug!
 > 
 > You should *not* be setting the SBBSNODE environment variable in Windows. 
You
 > shouldn't need to.
 > 
 > Additionally, if you set it (to "C:\SBBS\NODE1\" for example), your doors 
will
 > only work for node 1.
 > 
 > Good find!
 > 
 > I'll work on a fix for the next release (so the BBS will over-ride any
 > user-set
 > values for environment variables), but in the mean-time, just remove that
 > variable fro your Windows environment variable list. You can leave the
 > SBBSCTRL
 > env var if you wish.
 > 
 >                                                   digital man
 I removed the sbbsnode value from windows and the doors work fine now. But 
when I tried to use the ;shell command I found it would not work. In fact none 
of the sysop commands will work. The screen blinks almost instantly and the 
prompt returns. Could this be related?

-
pete

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