Subj : Re: SBBSecho logging.
To   : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Wed Jan 06 2016 19:05:00

-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 >
 > Yes, fidoin is triggered by a semaphore ONLY.  Being I have downlinks, as
 > soon as sbbsecho does it's thing importing, it creates outbound pkt's, as
 > you well know. I run a timed event for fidoout incase there are any *.msg's
 > sitting in my netmail so they get converted and sent.  I don't get many
 > callers but if someone wants to send a netmail, I really don't want it
 > sitting around waiting for fidoout to run.

 DM> The solution to that is set set SCFG->Networks->FidoNet->NetMail
 DM> Semaphore to your ../data/fidoout.now file. Then whenever Synchronet
 DM> creates a NetMail message (e.g. a user sends NetMail), then the
 DM> "FIDOUT" event will run.

OK... I was using a different semaphore (fdrescan.now) from my old IRex days.
:)  Hey, it worked... :)

 >  DM> The normal/best way to run SBBSecho (for both import and export) is
 >  DM> *only* from the Synchronet event thread. This will insure that there is
 >  DM> only one instance of SBBSecho running at a time and avoid race
 >  DM> conditions that could cause the kind of error you reported.
 >
 > Agreed, but now that you told me the stray pk_ gets converted after 60
 > minutes, i'm not too worried.  Yes, statistically two instances can, and
 > have run together but it doesn't create a huge issue.

 DM> If you're only running one instance of Synchronet and SBBSecho is only
 DM> run via Synchronet timed-event, then two instance shouldn't be able to
 DM> run concurrently. (Unless you have the events configured for
 DM> "background execution", which you should not).

Just the one instance of Synchronet.... and nothing is set for background
execution.  :)

Let's see what happens... :)


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