Hi Avon,

If I know I'm going to have my server offline for a day then what is the best way to go about it?

Question 1: if I'm offline for a full day or even a half day will I receive
all the fsxnet messages for that day when I come back online?

Question 2: I've purposely avoided messing around with sending commands to fsxnet because I don't understand it. I realize you have documented all that information. Would it be valuable to have those commands available in a shell script that presents you with those commands as menu selectable options?

My mpl skills just don't exist, but would this be better as a mpl?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A29 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Solar BBS (21:1/151)

On 11/02/16, Solarbaby pondered and said...

Hi Avon,
If I know I'm going to have my server offline for a day then what is the best way to go about it?

Question 1: if I'm offline for a full day or even a half day will I receive all the fsxnet messages for that day when I come back online?

Yes, all messages are held at the HUB until your system collects them. I
would need to check if the HUB is trying to CRASH packets to your system or
if they are on HOLD for you to poll and collect when you wish. If they are
set to CRASH I'd likely leave it set that way if your only down for 24 hours but if if you going to be down for more than that I would set your node to
HOLD at the HUB to avoid pointless fidopoll efforts from this end :)

Question 2: I've purposely avoided messing around with sending commands to fsxnet because I don't understand it. I realize you have documented all that information. Would it be valuable to have those commands available in a shell script that presents you with those commands as
menu selectable options?

I guess you could script something but it's really not that hard. In essence you are sending a netmail to the HUB address of 21:1/100 and in person you
are sending it to you use Areafix (for message related commands) or Filefix (for file base related commands).

You then use your HUB password in the subject line (make sure you are sending
a netmail - not an echomail - a common error that exposes your password to
the rest of the NET)

In the message body you place a command like

%HELP

then save and send it to the HUB

The HUB replies with output related to the commands you send it.

Check your mystic\data dir and look for areafix.txt and filefix.txt files
that contain the help info related to the %HELP command for both systems.

Let me know if you have any questions :)

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Thank You Avon. That was a big help. Okay, yeah Im going to see some down time pretty much everytime I leave the house this week, only because I am running the BBS completely off my phone for the week. I'm testing my server setup on every android device I currently own, and this week it's on the
phone.

Once I figure out which ports are available for incoming on Mobile Networks (AT&T) in my case I may experiment even further and see if I can start using
my mobile internet while on the go with mis and binkp. My google fu is
taking me down kind of a slow path in this area.

In case anyone is wondering how well it works. It works very well. The BBS
is usually very fast. Apache2 webserver is pretty good too. I see slow
downs when mysql database is accessed but that is normal.

I've run the server on a Samsung Galaxy note 2, first gen CuBox, and a Nvidia Shield Portable.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A29 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Solar BBS (21:1/151)

On 11/02/16, Solarbaby pondered and said...

Thank You Avon. That was a big help. Okay, yeah Im going to see some down time pretty much everytime I leave the house this week, only
because I am running the BBS completely off my phone for the week. I'm

Wow... so using a mobile phone and data to allow users to connect?

Glad the info helped :)

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Thats the idea. I just need to figure out how I will direct the incoming
ports since mobile networks are very stingy about opening ports unless you
pay them for a business account. I don't like the idea of using a VPN so
I'm going to try to do anything but that.

Port 443 is probably available to me, and possibly 5060 and 5061 Voip. Maybe
I can attach some stuff to those. I'm for certain walking the road lesser known.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A29 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Solar BBS (21:1/151)