Subj : Announcement Problems
To   : Kevin Nunn
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Sun Jul 30 2017 21:16:45

Kevin Nunn wrote:

 KN> I am trying to get allfix to announce and I am having no luck.

 KN> Some background, I had an 6.0.18 (I think) setup and was having issues
 KN> with that, come to find out it was some corrupted setup files. So I
 KN> ended up starting from scratch with 6.0.24.

 KN> I have everything setup, nodes, file echos, etc. I have one magicfile
 KN> working great with nodelists. I initially setup a new files report to
 KN> post to a local JAM message base, and later added the same report to a
 KN> networked JAM base and also another report building a PKT just to try to
 KN> test. I have all of my groups selected, so it should be checking all of
 KN> my file echos. But after running allfix file, I run announce and it
 KN> says "nothing to do".

 KN> It does say in the logs "New Files [7  ]" so it is apparently seeing the
 KN> new files.

 KN> Reading the DOCS for 6.xx, it says that there is a TOBEREP.FIX and
 KN> TOBEREP.IDX file that handles this, but I don't have those files. I've
 KN> run ASETUP pack/index, and some FIXUTIL commands, but nothing seems to
 KN> create these files.

Those toberep.* files will appear when there is something to announce.

Are you sure you defined in asetup -> new file reports what to announce?
And in file echo manager -> advanced -> announce = YES?

'Tommi

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