On 10/09/16, Indrid Cold pondered and said...
Good morning Paul,
Hi there.. from over here in New Zealand where it's Sunday night 9pm
here's is Saturday morning, and I woke up early as almost always - we're all ill actually in my family, so this rest day will be of big help ;)
Hope you feel better soon...
I have a couple of questions for the Master Chief of the NET, as
always... I was checking MYSTIC -CFG and I saw in the scheduled event
you have made about fsxNet (the one I've copied and pasted for the other nets added later) the command string is './FIDOPOLL [HOST]| MUTIL MAILIN.INI' - is the part '|' correct? Because in Linux shell
environment if you want to exec more commands in one string then you've
to use '&' or '&&' chars. '|' is used to 'pipe' the output of a command
to another one - just my doubt! If '|' is the way to tell CFG to do more than one command on that section, I don't know, sincerely.
Yes in the case of Mystic the Shell or Semaphore line uses the | (pipe symbol) to add more than one command to execute on the line.
From whatnew.txt
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TYPE1: Semaphore
================
This event type listens for one or more "semaphore" files, and will execute
a command line if one or more of the semaphore files are found. Prior to
executing the command line, MIS will also delete the detected semaphores.
The following options are used for Semaphore type events. Any other
options
not mentioned here can be ignored for this type:
Active - If yes this event will be active. Set to No to disable.
Description - This can be any description you want.
Exec Type - This is one of BBS, Shell, or Semaphore
Semaphore - This defines the semaphore filename to "look" for. If
there is no path included, Mystic will automatically look
in the configured semaphore directory. In addition, more
than one semaphore file can be monitored by using a pipe
symbol to separate them (|). For example:
Semaphore: echomail.out|netmail.out
The above example will look for the existance of EITHER
echomail.out or netmail.out in the configured semaphore
directory. If either file is found, the event will remove
the semaphore files and then execute the event.
Semaphore: c:\mybbs\somefile.txt
The above will list for the c:\mybbs\somefile.txt and
trigger the event if it is found.
Shell - This is the command line which will be executed when the
event is triggered. Similar to the Semaphore detection,
this can have one *or more* executions per event each
separated by a pipe. If no path is supplied, MIS will
default to the root Mystic BBS directory. For example:
Shell: domail.bat
The above example will execute domail.bat in the root
Mystic BBS directory.
Shell: mutil export.ini|fidopoll send|mutil import.ini
The above will execute 3 command lines in a row:
mutil export.ini
fidopoll send
mutil import.ini
If we put it all together we can get something like this:
Active: Yes
Description: Send outgoing echomail
Exec Type: Semaphore
Semaphore: echomail.out|netmail.out
Shell: mutil export.ini|fidopoll send|mutil import.ini
The above example wait for echomail or netmail.out, and
execute mutil to export, then fidopoll to send, then
mutil to import any new packets. Completely automated!
TYPE2: Shell
============
This event type executes on a defined time, defined on a weekly schedule.
When the event executes, it will execute the Shell command line. Like the
Semaphore event type, this Shell command can also execute multiple command
lines by separating them with a pipe character (|).
The different between this type and Semaphore is that instead of waiting
for a file, the event is defined by a specific execution time. This is
defined by picking which days of the week the event should execute, and
what time per day it should be ran (in 24-hour format). For example:
Active: Yes
Description: Pack message bases
Exec Type: Shell
Shell: mutil msgpack.ini
Exec Hour: 01
Exec Min: 30
Sun: No Mon: Yes Tue: No Wed: No Thu: No Fri: No Sat: No
The above event would execute once per week, at 1:30am on Monday morning
and execute the command line "mutil msgpack.ini" from the root Mystic BBS
directory.
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Best, Paul
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