More playing to be done tonight :)
I've been looking at how Dan set up his copy of HPT and it looks like
he's opted to used fileboxes for all nodes (fileboxalways) such that echomail etc. is also packed to those boxes.. so regardless of if a
node is packed with crash echomail or netmail it's really only the
filebox setting in BinkD that's crashing or holding things... as I see it... which I think is correct.
Within HPT and with flileboxalways set to off... I think I now
understand the linkdefaults style settings you can blanket apply to
all nodes you wish to... but then I can also see how easy it is to set netmailflavour or echomailflavour to crash and inadvertently set lots
of nodes that should be set to hold to crash instead... and all of
this sits in the echomail\out dir that BinkD looks to.
I'm trying to determine the pros and cons of using a fileboxalways approach vs packing thiings to the usual default outbound.
Also trying to figure out how to ensure nodes that should be crash are crash and nodes that are not are set to hold.
Looks like fileboxes may be the way to go but then any packed arcmail
with crash status is really made a mockery of if the filebox in binkd
is incorrectly set..
the alternative seems to be manually setting netmail,echomail flavours
per node and leaving the fileboxes to TIC traffic only etc...
Looks like fileboxes may be the way to go but then any packed arcmail
with crash status is really made a mockery of if the filebox in binkd
is incorrectly set..
I have not used fileboxes in my setup of HPT. The only filebox I have Fileboxes are not needed for sending echomail, netmail or tics.
I use simply "Flavour". It's possible to also use "EchomailFlavour",
I think fileboxes can also have a flavour of i, c, d, -, or h in your binkd.conf.
Why are fileboxes the way to go?
That might make it easier if you want to see what's up with a certain node, maybe.
There is a showold.pl in the husky source that I use to see what is sitting in the outbound. It is in the hpt/misc directory. It shows you what is in the outbound and how old it is. I'm not sure if that relies
on flow files or if it will also display stuff in fileboxes.
That might make it easier if you want to see what's up with a certain node, maybe.
Yep I was thinking that also, I'm guessing it's probably the reason Dan may have opted for this also.
That's exactly the reason I've done that. It makes it easier to just look into the filebox and see what's sitting there, and how old it is. :)
out of having to set crash/normal/hold status per node in link
Black Panther wrote to Avon <=-
That's exactly the reason I've done that. It makes it easier to just
look into the filebox and see what's sitting there, and how old it is.
:)
Can't you set a default for all of them somewhere? Most would be crash wouldn't they? And then just set the ones you need to be normal in the specific configs?
That's exactly the reason I've done that. It makes it easier to just into the filebox and see what's sitting there, and how old it is. :)
OK thanks :)
Yeah not sure I want to do the same or not.... too many choices :)
That's what I love about Husky. It can be as complicated or as simple as you'd like it to be, while still remaining so versatile. :)
Black Panther wrote to Avon <=-
That's exactly the reason I've done that. It makes it easier to just look into the filebox and see what's sitting there, and how old it is. :)
I switched from Radius to BinkIT several months back, and being able to see outbound aging at a glance is the one thing I miss about Radius.
That's what I love about Husky. It can be as complicated or as simple you'd like it to be, while still remaining so versatile. :)
Sounds like an advertisement for my vacuum cleaner :)
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I switched from Radius to BinkIT several months back, and being able to see outbound aging at a glance is the one thing I miss about Radius.
You want statistics about your outbound dirs? Something could likely be cooked up in JS pretty quickly.
Black Panther wrote to Avon <=-
Sounds like an advertisement for my vacuum cleaner :)
I gave up on vacuum cleaners. They all suck... ;)
I gave up on vacuum cleaners. They all suck... ;)Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux!
Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux!
that I was looking for a girl who could suck start a Harley.
Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux!
Can it suck start a Harley? :P
Spec
*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I switched from Radius to BinkIT several months back, and being able to see outbound aging at a glance is the one thing I miss about Radius.
You want statistics about your outbound dirs? Something could likely be cooked up in JS pretty quickly.
I'd love something like that. Nodes drop off and stop picking up mail, and Radius' outbound view could sort by age - giving me a quick view of who'd stopped polling.
WOW! As the owner of two GSX-Rs, I found this quite amusing :)
Nice to find GSX-R fellows in here, but I only have one... :S
WOW! As the owner of two GSX-Rs, I found this quite amusing :)
Nice to find GSX-R fellows in here, but I only have one... :S
//ToTAL
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: ToTAL LoST BBS (21:4/136)
that I was looking for a girl who could suck start a Harley.[BSnap <chuckle)
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'd love something like that. Nodes drop off and stop picking up mail, and Radius' outbound view could sort by age - giving me a quick view of who'd stopped polling.
Okay, put it on the todo list.
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'd love something like that. Nodes drop off and stop picking up mail, and Radius' outbound view could sort by age - giving me a quick view of who'd stopped polling.
Okay, put it on the todo list.
To clarify, did you put it on the todo list, or are you asking me to?
And secondly, where's the todo list? :)
ToTAL wrote to Warp 4 <=-
WOW! As the owner of two GSX-Rs, I found this quite amusing :)
Nice to find GSX-R fellows in here, but I only have one... :S
//ToTAL
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: ToTAL LoST BBS (21:4/136)
| Sysop: | sneaky |
|---|---|
| Location: | Ashburton,NZ |
| Users: | 31 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 154:39:22 |
| Calls: | 2,074 |
| Files: | 11,137 |
| Messages: | 946,949 |