Subj : How to setup a poll event
To   : Tony Comandini
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Mon Dec 19 2016 08:57:32

Hello Tony,

> Thank you Jeff, so if I well understand you don't use the internal event of
> BBBS. So in essence you call different scripts by crontab. Do you have a 
> scrip to poll your nodes?

An example script might be:

#======Start Script======
#!/bin/sh
#BBBSPERL=/usr/bin/perl

# Change to working directory
cd /home/bbbs

#Execute poll command
/home/bbbs/bbbs bom create 1:261/38 +crash

#Touch BBBS rescan semaphore file
touch /home/bbbs/work/rescan.1

#Update poll log to show poll was made (All one command, No wordwrap)
echo "1:261/38 (Janis Kracht) System Poll Successful: $(date)" >>
/home/bbbs/logs/bbbs-poll.log
#======End Script=======

More could be done here but this is a basic script to poll. I have a  BBBS 
semaphore file that is touched if mail/files are received as a result 
of the poll.

Jeff




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