Subj : birthdaylist.js
To   : DesotoFireflite
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun May 15 2022 23:02:30

  Re: birthdaylist.js
  By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sat May 14 2022 12:29 pm

 > Hi Rob
 >
 > Can you think of any reason birthdaylist.js would just stop working. It was
 > working fine up to yesterday, and wam, it just locks up the system.

And by "the system", I'm guessing you just mean the current node.

 > You can
 > see the curser blinking on the remote end, and that's it. It's not throwing
 > any errors, it just locks up everytime.

Do you get the same behavior when running it using jsexec?

 > I have not made any changes or added
 > anything to the system in several weeks, so I can rule out operator error on
 > my part. I had one new user log in and register 0n 5/13/2022, and I noticed
 > it stopped working after that. I don't see anything in his settings that
 > would cause a problem. He did use a birthdate of 19810101, so I changed that
 > thinking that may be the problem, and no change. I've also tried to use it
 > using the sysop ;EXEC command, and it just locks up the system also. For now
 > I have just removed it, but I'd like to solve the issue. Since it's not
 > throwing any errors, is there a way to debug it that would be easy for me to
 > see what is going on. Thanks in advance.

No immediate ideas. I probably start adding log() lines to exec/birthdaylist.js and load/birthdays.js to find out exactly where is locking or infinite-looping (more likely).
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