Subj : XSDK error writing to soc
To   : Hemo
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat May 28 2016 10:16:00

  Re: XSDK error writing to socket
  By: Hemo to Digital Man on Thu May 26 2016 04:45 pm

 >   Re: XSDK error writing to socket
 >   By: Digital Man to Hemo on Thu May 26 2016 01:12 am
 >
 >  DM> How do you have "Intercept I/O" option set for your door in SCFG? For
 >  DM> XSDK, it should normally be set to "No". It sounds like you may have it
 >  DM> set to "Standard" instead.
 >
 > oh.. it got better than that the more I fiddled with things...
 >
 > I narrowed it down to xsdk.c and the presence of pre-existing XTRN.DAT files
 > in the node directorys when I did the initial pull to build the system.
 >
 > xsdk.c is looking for XTRN.DAT in the node directory, and on CentOS - the
 > system is writing out xtrn.dat files.

The case (upper or lower) of the drop file is configurable in SCFG. You
apparently have it configured to drop a lowercase xtrn.dat.

 > Whatever settings were in the
 > XTRN.DAT must have been causing things, and I honestly can't say how the
 > program was starting any longer, unless I was connected to a different node
 > and that file had slightly different settings... once I removed the XTRN.DAT
 > files I would then catch a glimpse that the system couldn't find file
 > /sbbs/node1/XTRN.DAT
 >
 > >facepalm<
 >
 > I made an edit to xsdk.c :
 > #if defined(__unix__)
 >         sprintf(str,"%sxtrn.dat",node_dir);
 > #else
 >         sprintf(str,"%sXTRN.DAT",node_dir);
 > #endif
 >
 > I have needed to make a few other edits in the xsdk as well, some conflicts
 > with getch and getstr between the xsdk and curses,it seems.
 >
 > Things are better, I'm off to the next step of my project..

Okay, cool. XSDK is pretty old and crufty now and most new stuff for Synchronet
is written in JS. But I'm glad it's working for you!

                                            digital man

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