Subj : Re: No Timeout setting
To   : Edmund Wong
From : g00r00
Date : Fri Nov 19 2021 10:09:08

 EW> I'd like to confirm that it is indeed true that something happens,
 EW> and the following error appears as I get booted to the prompt.
 EW> 
 EW> 2021.19.11 13:27:30 MYSTIC 001 Cannot write to /mystic/data/chat1.dat.
 EW> Code=2, PID=23556

Well this is a start at least! A47 has better logging as you can see which can't hurt as we get this sorted out! :)

It looks like that file is getting removed somehow like you said which is what Code=2 means.  Typically things like this end up being either a bug or permissions related when it comes to the Linux version.  In this case no one else has reported anything like this that I know of, so lets start with permissions.

 EW> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bbs users    131 Nov 19 13:03 chat1.dat*

It looks like you are running the BBS as user bbs in the group users, so I would say first thing to try is: Shut everything down and do a chown to make sure the user has permissions for everything:

sudo chown -R users:bbs /mystic

Now log in as the BBS user and see if the problem goes away. If that doesn't work you could also try to do a local login as an admin to see if the problem still happens:

sudo ./mystic -l

If the problem goes away when you login as a super user then its probably permissions.  If you do the super user admin it might be a good idea to do another chown afterwards just to be safe/make sure everything is owned by
the bbs user.

If any of this helps or not let me know and then we can try to figure out what we can look into next.

Thanks!

.... Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career

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