Subj : Re: ctrl/sbbsecho.ini
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sat Aug 04 2018 08:57 pm

-=> On 08-04-18 22:34, Paul Hayton wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 PH> Heh... I had the idea, and we discussed it in fsx, you jumped quicker
 PH> and got his running before I implemented it also... me and my big mouth
 PH> - heh :) Yep kudos to you for getting yours sorted and on-air
 PH> quicker... I need to hit you up for some help with your scripts to
 PH> automate things... will drop you a netmail :)

I had been thinking about setting it up for some time, but you gave me the kick
to get it moving. :D

Sure.  My automation happens in a few stages:

1.  The nodelist is updated at 6AM on Saturdays, then added to the infopack,
which is recreated.

2.  Next, the new nodelist and infopack are hatched to the file echoes.

3.  A bit later, the DNS updating is done, taking the previously generated
nodelist and converting it into a DNS zone file.  The DNS is then recycled, to
load the new zone file.

4.  Final stage is the external web server, which FTPs the infopack from the
BBS, so all publicly available copies are the same version.

Only thing is all of my automation relies on Linux. :)


.... Never trust a computer you cannot carry.
=== MultiMail/Win v0.51
--- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux
 * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)

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