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    From Gringo@1:103/705 to All on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 19:58:00
    Hi Everyone,

    I am trying to configure Tickit on my BBS for a couple of days now, and nothing seems to work :)

    I would really appreciate if one of you guys can help me out with my config, as my understaning of FIDO is pretty new to me.

    1. I have subscribed to all File Echo available using FileFix, and i received a confirmation that i am correctly subscribed.
    2. I then created a timed event to call tickit.js
    3. I edited tickit.ini, with the following (i created only 2 areas to test, 1:229/426 is my uplink). I am not about the global entries at the beginning, but i think they act as default values if a key is not present.

    Dir=FidoNetFOTHER
    Links=1:229/426

    [DAILYLIST]
    Dir=FIDONETFDailyLis
    links=1:229/426

    [MODIS]
    Dir=FIDONETFMODIS
    links=1:229/426
    4. 3-4 times/day, i can see in the log some .tic files coming in, and i see that they are processed by tickit, but no files are placed in my file areas.

    Any ideas ?
    Thanks so much,
    ElGringo
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Gringo on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 21:40:12
    Re: Tickit
    By: Gringo to All on Wed Sep 23 2020 07:58 pm

    Hi Everyone,

    I am trying to configure Tickit on my BBS for a couple of days now, and nothing seems to work :)

    I would really appreciate if one of you guys can help me out with my config, as my understaning of FIDO is pretty new to me.

    1. I have subscribed to all File Echo available using FileFix, and i received a confirmation that i am correctly subscribed.
    2. I then created a timed event to call tickit.js
    3. I edited tickit.ini, with the following (i created only 2 areas to test, 1:229/426 is my uplink). I am not about the global entries at the beginning, but i think they act as default values if a key is not present.

    Dir=FidoNetFOTHER
    Links=1:229/426

    [DAILYLIST]
    Dir=FIDONETFDailyLis
    links=1:229/426

    [MODIS]
    Dir=FIDONETFMODIS
    links=1:229/426
    4. 3-4 times/day, i can see in the log some .tic files coming in, and i see that they are processed by tickit, but no files are placed in my file areas.

    Any ideas ?

    Paste the log output that shows the files being processed by tickit.

    Also, confirm that you have file directories configured in SCFG->File Areas with those same internal codes you have listed there in your tickit.ini file.

    digital man

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  • From Gringo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thursday, September 24, 2020 07:02:00
    Digital Man wrote to Gringo <=-

    Paste the log output that shows the files being processed by tickit.

    Also, confirm that you have file directories configured in SCFG->File Areas with those same internal codes you have listed there in your tickit.ini file.

    Thanks Digital man,

    I confirm that the file areas exists with the same internal code.
    Please find below an execution of BinkPoll where there was a tic file :

    9-24 05:37:22a Running timed event: BINKPOLL
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL BinkIT/2.14 invoked with options: -p
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Attempting poll for node 1:229/426@fidonet
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL JSBinkP/1.112 callout to 1:229/426@fidonet started
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Connecting to bbs.darkrealms.ca:24554
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Peer version: binkd/1.1a-110/Win32 binkp/1.1
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Will encrypt session.
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Authentication successful: secure
    9-24 05:37:22a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\AP200924.ZIP (1157.6KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\AP200924.ZIP (1157.6KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\AP200924.ZIP' to '../fido/inbound\AP200924.ZIP'.
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\AO500RG6.TIC (1.2KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\AO500RG6.TIC (1.2KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\AO500RG6.TIC' to '../fido/inbound\AO500RG6.TIC'.
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40505270.PKT (13.5KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40505270.PKT (13.5KB)
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40505270.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40505270.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:30a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40500012.PKT (8.5KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40500012.PKT (8.5KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40500012.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40500012.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40453379.PKT (2.2KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40453379.PKT (2.2KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40453379.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40453379.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40445364.PKT (0.8KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40445364.PKT (0.8KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40445364.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40445364.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40444276.PKT (1.7KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40444276.PKT (1.7KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40444276.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40444276.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40440079.PKT (4.8KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40440079.PKT (4.8KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40440079.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40440079.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Receiving file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40439299.PKT (1.6KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Received file: C:\sbbs\temp\event\40439299.PKT (1.6KB)
    9-24 05:37:31a BINKPOLL Moving 'C:\sbbs\temp\event\40439299.PKT' to '../fido/inbound\40439299.PKT'.
    9-24 05:37:31a Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0
    9-24 05:37:32a Semaphore signaled for Timed Event: FIDOIN
    9-24 05:37:32a Semaphore signaled for Timed Event: TICKIT
    9-24 05:37:32a Running native timed event: FIDOIN
    9-24 05:37:32a Timed event: FIDOIN returned 0
    9-24 05:37:32a Running timed event: TICKIT
    9-24 05:37:33a TICKIT Parsing ../fido/inbound\/AO500RG6.TIC
    9-24 05:37:33a Timed event: TICKIT returned 0

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  • From Gringo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thursday, September 24, 2020 07:37:05
    Re: Re: Tickit
    By: Gringo to Digital Man on Thu Sep 24 2020 07:02 am

    HI Digital Man,

    i just took a look at the actual directories and the files are there!!! but they're not added to the BBS.
    The Addfiles was not called, should i have a timed event for addfiles as well ? Cause i dont have one.

    Thanks again !
    ElGringo

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Gringo on Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:58:07
    Re: Re: Tickit
    By: Gringo to Digital Man on Thu Sep 24 2020 07:02 am

    Paste the log output that shows the files being processed by tickit.

    9-24 05:37:32a Running timed event: TICKIT
    9-24 05:37:33a TICKIT Parsing ../fido/inbound\/AO500RG6.TIC
    9-24 05:37:33a Timed event: TICKIT returned 0

    So looking at exec/tickit.js, it appears it should log "Processing..." and then "Working with <filename> in <tic_area>" log messagse after the "Parsing" log message. These are "info" level log messages, so they should normally be in the log output. You can try increasing the log level to "debug" to see if you see any more detail, but if it were me, I'd start adding more log() messages to tickit.js to see where's getting hung-up. It sounds like process_tic() is returning a falsey value, but it should also be logging an error in that case (which was not included in your pasted log output).

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Gringo on Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:00:04
    Re: Re: Tickit
    By: Gringo to Digital Man on Thu Sep 24 2020 07:37 am

    Re: Re: Tickit
    By: Gringo to Digital Man on Thu Sep 24 2020 07:02 am

    HI Digital Man,

    i just took a look at the actual directories and the files are there!!! but they're not added to the BBS.
    The Addfiles was not called, should i have a timed event for addfiles as well ? Cause i dont have one.

    No, tickit.js calls addfiles.

    digital man

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