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  • Nightly maint won't run

    From DustCouncil@21:1/227 to All on Thu Feb 3 20:03:20 2022
    mutil maint.ini

    If I run this manually, it runs fine. There appears to be no syntax issue in the INI file. However, I cannot make this run in an automated fashion.

    Every so often I log in and run it manually.

    I have it set up with these settings:

    Active: Yes
    Description: Nightly Maintenance
    Event Type: Shell
    Exec Hour: 11
    Exec Min: 0
    Shell: mutil maint.ini
    Semaphore: <none>
    Kill After: <none>
    Warning: 0

    SMTWTFS all set to Yes.

    I have tried fiddling with the pathnames. I am running v1.12 A47 (need to update this at some point) on Debian.

    BTW in case anyone is wondering - That odd 11am exec hour is because my board is configured as UTC, so that's 3am my time. Long story.

    I suppose an option is to just set it up as a cronjob. I'd prefer not to. Is there any downside to doing it that way?

    Thanks folks; this has been baffling me for months. All my other jobs (like the polling) works fine.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/09/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)
  • From blade@21:4/151 to DustCouncil on Thu Feb 3 14:04:31 2022
    Shell: mutil maint.ini

    This is a shot in the dark here, but have you tried changing the command line to "./mutil maint.ini"

    If that still doesn't work, g00r00 has been making some changes to mutil in regards to how it handles paths for the *.ini files in the A48 PreAlphas.

    ... Error 3032 - Recursion error. See error 3032.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: CaNerDUH BBS (21:4/151)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to blade on Fri Feb 4 14:32:16 2022
    On 03 Feb 2022 at 02:04p, blade pondered and said...

    Shell: mutil maint.ini

    This is a shot in the dark here, but have you tried changing the command line to "./mutil maint.ini"

    I agree adding a ./ should do the trick :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)