Subj : Question about onlyonce and Bulletins
To   : All
From : DustCouncil
Date : Mon Jun 28 2021 01:37 am

So, this is not a major issue but it's perplexing.  I'm trying to get my
bulletin system working, and while this will always display for new user
logins, it will not display on subsequent logins when new bulletins have been
added.

My first question is how does Mystic determine if there's anything new?  I'm
on Linux: filectime, filemtime? 

In prelogin, in the menu editor, the bulletin entry is the same as it was for
a default install.

(GX) Execute MPL program
     Data: bulletin bulletin bullet check

In this case, I assume it is looking through the bulletX.asc files and
attempting to determine what is new.  However, creating new files, touching
files to update filemtime, etc. doesn't do anything.  

To test this further I added:

(GX) Execute MPL program
     Data: onlyonce testbull

I assume it should be looking to display /mystic/themes/mytheme/testbull.asc
if that file is new, but I have a similar problem here.  I've touched the
file, deleted it, re-created it, and it won't display (does it need a full
pathname and file extension?)

Any ideas why this would be?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)

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