Subj : Re: Door problems
To   : Cisop
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 08:58 pm

  Re: Re: Door problems
  By: Cisop to Digital Man on Sun Sep 25 2005 09:30 pm

 >  >  > I have found a way to make both doors run. I don't know why but hopefu
 >  > 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 i
 >  > 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. T
 >  >  > 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.

 >  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 no
 > of the sysop commands will work. The screen blinks almost instantly and the
 > prompt returns. Could this be related?

Nope, different problem. What's your security level? What command shell are you
using? If you hit '!' to see the sysop menu?

                                                  digital man

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