• Linux Daemon

    From Nazferiti@21:3/107 to All on Fri May 8 20:02:20 2020
    Mail Import / Export and Events don't appear to trigger automatically when using the daemon under linux. Is this a misconfiguration on my part or am I supposed to run them as Linux Cron Jobs?

    - Mike

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Arcadia BBS | Connecticut USA | bbs.arcadiabbs.com (21:3/107)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Nazferiti on Sat May 9 08:07:34 2020
    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 08 May 2020, Nazferiti said the following...
    Mail Import / Export and Events don't appear to trigger automatically
    when using the daemon under linux. Is this a misconfiguration on my
    part or am I supposed to run them as Linux Cron Jobs?

    They should be working, however you will probably need to prefix mutil with "./" if you haven't already, e.g.:

    ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/import.ini

    ...if you haven't got your Mystic root directory in the daemon user's PATH, as Mystic launches all binaries from the Mystic root directory.

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)
  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Nazferiti on Sat May 9 00:28:47 2020
    Mail Import / Export and Events don't appear to trigger automatically
    when using the daemon under linux. Is this a misconfiguration on my
    part or am I supposed to run them as Linux Cron Jobs?

    In addition to Zip's feedback, once you update these event type jobs, you'll need to stop and restart the mis daemon; it doesn't live reload these config changes.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/13 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)
  • From Nazferiti@21:3/107 to Zip on Sat May 9 11:31:16 2020
    On 09 May 2020, Zip said the following...

    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 08 May 2020, Nazferiti said the following...
    Mail Import / Export and Events don't appear to trigger automatically when using the daemon under linux. Is this a misconfiguration on my part or am I supposed to run them as Linux Cron Jobs?

    They should be working, however you will probably need to prefix mutil with "./" if you haven't already, e.g.:

    ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/import.ini

    ...if you haven't got your Mystic root directory in the daemon user's PATH, as Mystic launches all binaries from the Mystic root directory.

    This is probably my problem then, I installed my linux, copied over all my config and user files from my Windows 32 version. Currently I have
    everything set as a cron and mail is flowing, but I think it would be better
    to have mail crash rather than just force a poll ever half hour.

    - Mike

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Arcadia BBS | Connecticut USA | bbs.arcadiabbs.com (21:3/107)
  • From Nazferiti@21:3/107 to Zip on Sat May 9 17:12:21 2020
    They should be working, however you will probably need to prefix mutil with "./" if you haven't already, e.g.:

    ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/import.ini

    You guys are awesome, I made those changes and it's working perfectly now! Been a busy day, got almost everything working in Linux now. Even got MRC
    up and running!

    - Mike

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Arcadia BBS | Connecticut USA | bbs.arcadiabbs.com (21:3/107)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Nazferiti on Sun May 10 08:10:04 2020
    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 09 May 2020, Nazferiti said the following...
    my config and user files from my Windows 32 version. Currently I have everything set as a cron and mail is flowing, but I think it would be better to have mail crash rather than just force a poll ever half hour.

    Actually you can have both -- first an Interval event polling e.g. every hour:

    ▄▄ █ ───█ Active │ Yes █────█▓gj!
    ██▄▄█ No █ Description │ CUSTOM: Poll echomail/netmail Sun │ No █ ░█▄▄
    ░████ No █ Event Type │ Interval Mon │ No █----░██▒■ ▀ ▓███ No █ Exec Hour │ 1 Tue │ No █ ░████ ▓ ▒▓▓█ No █ Exec Min │ 0 Wed │ No █ ░▓░
    ▓ █░░█ Yes█ Shell │ timeout -k 600 --preserve-stat Thu │ No █WTFS ░█░ ▓ ░░▓███ Yes█ Semaphore │ Fri │ No █ ░ ▄▄█ ▄▄■ ▀█ Yes█ Kill After │ Sat │ No █ ░ █░░
    █ Yes█ Warning │ 0 █ ░ ▀▄

    Complete Shell command line: timeout -k 600 --preserve-status -v 600 ./mis
    poll forced

    ...and then also a semaphore event watching for indications of outgoing mail:

    █ ───█ Active │ Yes █────█▓gj!
    ██▄▄█ No █ Description │ CUSTOM: Send outbound echomail Sun │ No █ ░█▄▄
    ░████ No █ Event Type │ Semaphore Mon │ No █
    ▀ ▓███ No █ Exec Hour │ 0 Tue │ No █----
    ▓ ▒▓▓█ No █ Exec Min │ 0 Wed │ No █ ░▓░
    ▀ █░░█ No █ Shell │ ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/export Thu │ No █ ░█░ ░░▓███ Yes█ Semaphore │ echomail.out|netmail.out Fri │ No █WTFS ░
    ▄▄■ ▀█ Yes█ Kill After │ netmail.out Sat │ No █ ░
    █ Yes█ Warning │ 0 █ ░ ▀▄

    Complete Description line: CUSTOM: Send outbound echomail/netmail
    Complete Shell command line: ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/export.ini|timeout -k 600 --preserve-status -v 600 ./mis poll send

    (At least in the past, mutil ExportEchoMail didn't remove netmail.out after sending, so I ask the event to remove it if left over.)

    ...and, finally, another semaphore event watching for incoming mail to toss:

    ▄▄ █ ───█ Active │ Yes █────█▓gj!
    ██▄▄█ No █ Description │ CUSTOM: Toss incoming echomail Sun │ No █ ░█▄▄
    ░████ No █ Event Type │ Semaphore Mon │ No █ ░██▒■ ▀ ▓███ No █ Exec Hour │ 0 Tue │ No █ ░████ ▓ ▒▓▓█ No █ Exec Min │ 0 Wed │ No █ ░▓░ ▓▀ █░░█ No █ Shell │ ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/import Thu │ No █---- ░█░ ▓ ░░▓███ No █ Semaphore │ echomail.in Fri │ No █ ░ ▄▄█ ▄▄■ ▀█ No █ Kill After │ Sat │ No █ ░ █░░
    █ Yes█ Warning │ 0 █WTFS ░ ▀▄

    Complete Description line: CUSTOM: Toss incoming echomail/netmail
    Complete Shell command line: ./mutil /mnt/bbs/mystic/import.ini

    I've had some problems with the pre-alpha A46 'mis poll' consuming 100% CPU
    due to some timer-related stuff (clock not increasing monotonically?), so I added the 'timeout' safety net to ensure it won't get stuck for ever
    (requiring a MIS service restart).

    N.B.: 'mis poll' is not available in A45, it was introduced in the pre-alpha A46s. The equivalent of 'mis poll' for A45 would be 'fidopoll'.

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Nazferiti on Sun May 10 08:10:51 2020
    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 09 May 2020, Nazferiti said the following...
    You guys are awesome, I made those changes and it's working perfectly
    now! Been a busy day, got almost everything working in Linux now. Even

    Glad to hear that! :D
    Well done!

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)