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To: Daryl Stout
Re: Event Failure
By: Daryl Stout to digital man on Sun Dec 26 2021 11:53 pm

Rob,

For some reason, I can not get the nightly maintenance batchfile
to run...or to have a batchfile run to "busy out the BBS" so the
maintenance can run separately. Whenever I try to enter "Requires
Exclusive Execution, it NEVER saves it, always reverting to NO.

For an event to run exclusively, it must have a specific node number to "run as". What do you have the "Execution Node" set to? If it's set to "any", then it cannot be an exclusive event.

I
am wanting to busy out the BBS so the maintenance will run. The
MSGMAINT utility runs at 5am, but I need to run the doorgame
maintenance just after midnight local time.

Not sure what "busy out the BBS" means.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Event Failure
By: Digital Man to Daryl Stout on Tue Dec 28 2021 07:54 am

Re: Event Failure
By: Daryl Stout to digital man on Sun Dec 26 2021 11:53 pm

Rob,

For some reason, I can not get the nightly maintenance batchfile
to run...or to have a batchfile run to "busy out the BBS" so the maintenance can run separately. Whenever I try to enter "Requires Exclusive Execution, it NEVER saves it, always reverting to NO.

For an event to run exclusively, it must have a specific node number to "run as". What do you have the "Execution Node" set to? If it's set to "any", then it cannot be an exclusive event.

I
am wanting to busy out the BBS so the maintenance will run. The
MSGMAINT utility runs at 5am, but I need to run the doorgame
maintenance just after midnight local time.

Not sure what "busy out the BBS" means.

he wants the BBS to go offline while maintenance then back online.

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To: Digital Man
Re: Event Failure
By: Digital Man to Daryl Stout on Tue Dec 28 2021 07:54 am

I
am wanting to busy out the BBS so the maintenance will run. The
MSGMAINT utility runs at 5am, but I need to run the doorgame
maintenance just after midnight local time.

Not sure what "busy out the BBS" means.

he wants all the nodes down and the bbs non accessable until his maint is done ---
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To: MRO
Re: Event Failure
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Dec 28 2021 10:48 am

I
am wanting to busy out the BBS so the maintenance will run. The
MSGMAINT utility runs at 5am, but I need to run the doorgame
maintenance just after midnight local time.

Not sure what "busy out the BBS" means.

he wants all the nodes down and the bbs non accessable until his maint is done

I'm not sure why he would need to down all nodes for an event? I set one node aside to run my events, it's not like the old days when we had a lot of people logging onto our BBS's.

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To: Denn
Re: Event Failure
By: Denn to MRO on Tue Dec 28 2021 10:48 am

I'm not sure why he would need to down all nodes for an event? I set one node aside to run my events, it's not like the old days when we had a lot of people logging onto our BBS's.

he's weird.
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To: Denn

Re: Event Failure
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Dec 28 2021 10:48 am

I'm not sure why he would need to down all nodes for an event? I set one node aside to run my events, it's not like the old days when we had a lot of people logging onto our BBS's.

... La Quinta is Spanish for "Next to Denny's."

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I did that too when I ran my bbs before. One node is enough for maintenance.

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To: MRO
Re: Event Failure
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Dec 28 2021 10:48 am

Re: Event Failure
By: Digital Man to Daryl Stout on Tue Dec 28 2021 07:54 am

I
am wanting to busy out the BBS so the maintenance will run. The MSGMAINT utility runs at 5am, but I need to run the doorgame maintenance just after midnight local time.

Not sure what "busy out the BBS" means.

he wants all the nodes down and the bbs non accessable until his maint is done

I suppose that *could* be what he wants, but I was asking for *his* clarification. Synchronet never has (even back in the dial-up modem days) made a node (or phone line) "busy" while an exclusive event was being executed. Instead, a message explaining that the node is not available is displayed (instead of login prompt) to the user and the session is disconnected.
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