Subj : ruling out To : Rick Smith From : Mike Fenton Date : Sat Dec 31 2022 05:35 am On 30 Dec 2022, Rick Smith said the following... RS> Greetings g00r00! RS> RS> Friday December 30 2022 21:36, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!: RS> RS> gr> * Forwarded from area 'MYSTIC' RS> RS>> I decided a brand new VM with ubuntu, fresh install mystic and RS> RS>> worked as expected, copied over my working mystic bbs minus RS> RS>> executables and I get the errors from previous message. So has RS> RS>> to be something in the working RS> RS> gr> I would suggest that you do the install fresh as you mentioned, and RS> gr> then try copying over things slowly to see when it breaks. It could RS> gr> be that there is a "Pi" executable still there. RS> RS> gr> Another possible issue is that your paths in your old configuration d RS> gr> not much the paths in your new configuration. If they are not RS> gr> identical, then you'd have to try to find all the places in the RS> gr> configuration and change them to the correct locations. RS> RS> gr> Also do you see anything in the log files when you try to run it? Or RS> gr> anything in the errors.log? RS> RS> I do not see anything in the logs.. The paths should be the same /mystic RS> I can now get mystic -cfg to work (turned out I did have a couple pi RS> executables remain qwkpoll and couple others, took care of that did a RS> whole fresh install on a new ubuntu machine. RS> RS> now when I run ./mystic -l I simply get a blank screen that just says RS> "busy" and have to ctrl c to get prompt back. ./mis starts and runs and RS> appears fine. Not sure what to check next to be honest. I can start RS> another vm and try again but I am pretty sure thats the definition of RS> insanity! lol RS> RS> Thank you for your help Delete the .bsy files under the Semaphore directory. .... Electricity is really just organized lightning. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: Clutch BBS * telnet://bbs.clutchbbs.com (1:229/310) .