Subj : finally :)
To   : Jeff Smith
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Sun Apr 28 2019 11:57 am

Hi Jeff,

>>If your BBBS is being hit time after time with bots, this script may fix it f
>> you... I've been running this script now for about 15 minutes, and everytime
>> Yandex kills bbbsd this script runs my script that brings it back up.. :)

> [...]

>> check_process "bbbsd"
>> [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "$ts: not running, restarting..." && `./telnetnode.sh >
>> /dev/null`

>I take it that telnetnode.sh (re)starts your bbbsd daemon?

Yes, it does.  Here is telnetnode.sh:
===cut here===
#/bin/sh
cd /home/bbbs
../bbbsd 4 15 telnetd:2030 httpd:8090 ftpd:60721 rawd:24555:binkp "quiet" "fork"
 "uid:bbs" &
===cut here===

The "./bbbsd 4 15" line wraps in this message.

>I don't recall, does
> BBBS create any bsy files that would prevent bbbsd from reloading until any
> such files were taken care of?

It's not like BinkD, if that's what you mean, so it doesn't that I can 
remember.

>I have tightened down iptables to limit the multiple telnet attempts. Which ha
> helped but I still occasionally run out of available nodes. Even though the
> busy nodes are cleared more quickly now.

I thought I had as well... but this darn bot from Yandex kept taking it down.. 
They did it three times yesterday, which is why I started searching for a good 
script to restart a daemon.  The script I posted is just perfect IMO. :) 
Running out of available nodes was exactly the problem over here as well...

Take care,
Janis

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