Hi All,

For those of us running MRC, you may want to check in your mystic/data/mrc directory for a file named mrcchat.log.

I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everything said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually chatting or not.

I can imagine for sysops who have been running MRC longer than I have that this file may be much larger.

I've added a line to my nightly maintenance to delete this file as it looks like the python script doesn't rotate/purge the chat log at all and will just keep growing in size forever.


Jay

... Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it

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On 18 Sep 2021, Warpslide said the following...

Hi All,

For those of us running MRC, you may want to check in your
mystic/data/mrc directory for a file named mrcchat.log.

I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everything said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually chatting or not.

Ouch! Mine was 75MB!! Good idea on the maint to delete it.. Going to do the same here...

AL

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Warpslide wrote (2021-09-18):

Hi All,

For those of us running MRC, you may want to check in your
mystic/data/mrc directory for a file named mrcchat.log.

I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has
grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everything said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually
chatting or not.

BBS's are a privacy nightmare.

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I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everythi said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually chatting or not.

My mrcchat.log is nearly 90Mb and it has got just over 3 years of history in it, since MRC started pretty much (MRC as it is right now that is).

root@bbs:/mystic/data/mrc# head -1 mrcchat.log
Sun Sep 9 15:46:03 2018 - MeaTLoTioN has arrived!

root@bbs:/mystic/data/mrc# ls -lh mrcchat.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88M Sep 18 19:15 mrcchat.log

---
|14Best regards,
|11Ch|03rist|11ia|15n |11a|03ka |11Me|03aTLoT|11io|15N

|07── |08[|10eml|08] |15ml@erb.pw |07── |08[|10web|08] |15www.erb.pw |07───┐ |07── |08[|09fsx|08] |1521:1/158 |07── |08[|11tqw|08] |151337:1/101 |07┬──┘ |07── |08[|12rtn|08] |1580:774/81 |07─┬ |08[|14fdn|08] |152:250/5 |07───┘
|07── |08[|10ark|08] |1510:104/2 |07─┘

... Help! I can't find the "ANY" key.

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On 09/18/2021 6:08 am Warpslide said...

For those of us running MRC, you may want to check in your mystic/data/mrc directory for a file named mrcchat.log.
I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everything said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually chatting or not.

Enigma does the same thing when in trace (Debug) mode - luckily it's only when someone is using MRC - so it's not "Always" capturing. Friday nights are eating up the bytes! LOL
-=Nuke=-

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nuke@21:3/134 (fsx) 25:25/19 (metro) nuke@westwoodbbs.net (new crap)
telnet westwoodbbs.net 8888 (ssh 8889)
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On 18 Sep 2021, Warpslide said the following...

For those of us running MRC, you may want to check in your
mystic/data/mrc directory for a file named mrcchat.log.

I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everything

I did some digging around mrc_client.py, and commented out line 110 which looks like this:

clogfile = "%s%smrcchat.log" % (mrcdir, os.sep)

And added this line just below:

clogfile = "/dev/null"

So it'd end up looking like:

# clogfile = "%s%smrcchat.log" % (mrcdir, os.sep)
clogfile = "/dev/null"

This will log the chat to /dev/null which means it won't go anywhere. On a windows system you may be able to use:

clogfile = "NUL"

But I haven't tested that.

Someone with more python experience than I have (read: none) may be able to do something more efficient. I don't actually know if this chat log is used/needed for anything, if not, it may be possible to eliminate this code entirely. If it is needed for something, this may end up breaking something.


Jay

... Xerox your life. If you lose it, you'll still have a copy.

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On 18 Sep 2021, Oli said the following...

I've been running this instance of Mystic since May and this file has grown to over 15MB and looks like it contains a transcript of everythi said in MRC since since then, regardless of whether I was actually

Thanks for this. Mine was 54 MB going back to 2016. Damn!

Mick Manning
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