Subj : SBBSECHO complaining abou
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Feb 20 2022 09:44:00

>  > So sbbsecho is complaining of the following:
>  >
>  > Node (#:####/###) externally locked via: /sbbs/fido/out/09100069.bsy
>  >
>  > However, /sbbs/fido/out is empty.  No bsy files or any files in it.

> Are you checking at the exact moment that SBBSecho is "complaining"? Checking
>  some time later won't help.

Yes, it was spitting out the complaints while I kept an eye on the
directory.  It was empty.

> The actual location shown/logged. Most likely, your mailer was connected with
> e node in question at the time of "complaint".

No.  This was actually a new install that only had one node to connect
with, and the binkit event was turned off.  No connections had been made
yet at the time.  I was trying to pack a test message before making the
first connection.

The culprit, for future reference, was that the /sbbs/fido directory was
not owned by the bbs user.  That was an operator error.  Once I fixed that,
the message went away.


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