Subj : sbbsecho issue
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Sep 10 2025 12:11:07

  Re: sbbsecho issue
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Wed Sep 10 2025 08:59 am

 > >  > Node (618:250/1.9) externally locked via:
 > >  > /sbbs/fido/out.26a/00fa0001.pnt/00000009.bsy (since ??:??)
 >
 > > That same message would have been written to the sbbsecho.log file. The
 > > lock attempt is retried (after the configurable number of BSO lock delay
 > > seconds) and gives up (and logs a warning about "Giving up") after the
 > > configured numbe
 > > of BSO lock attempts. All of these messages would be written to your
 > > sbbsecho.log file as well as the console. The only reason they would not
 > > be written to the log file is if you had your "Log Level" set to something
 > > less (more severe) than "Informational" in echocfg->Global Settings.
 >
 > It is set to "Warning".  Is that more or less severe than "Informational"?

A warning is more severe than informational and that means that Info-level messages would *not* be written to the sbbsecho.log. I recommend you change that back to the default (info) or if/when you're having issues, you change it to Debug.

 > The attempts were set at 60 so I lowered it.  What happens when it "gives
 > up"?

It logs a warning ("Giving up after n attempts to lock node x") and continues on doing whatever else it can do.

 > Regardless they were *not* written to the console.

Right, because you changed the log level.

 > They were written in
 > the terminal window when sbbsecho was run manually but, in normal
 > operation, they do *not* show up on the sbbs console or in syslog.

Correct, because you changed the log level from info to warning which
instructed SBBSecho to only log warnings and errors to the sbbsecho.log file. SBBSecho is behaving exactly as designed and documented, it appears to me.
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