Hello g00r00!

I'm running the latest 1.12A47 prealpha, and noticed the following MUTIL strangeness:

When MergeNodeLists is enabled, enabling Export_FILEBONE.NA yields a fatal error, and no output file is created:

+ 2021-02-13 09:49:29 Process: Export FILEBONE.NA
+ 2021-02-13 09:49:29 Results: No output file in 0.00s
! 2021-02-13 09:49:29 Status: FATAL

Furthermore, when MergeNodeLists is enabled, filename= for Export_AREAS.BBS, Export_GOLDED and GenerateAllFiles (if enabled) all seem to be ignored, producing the corresponding files with default names in the current directory (instead of the paths/names specified by filename=).

Could this be some kind of collision of the filename= variable?

Example of a broken_maint.ini:


[General]

Export_FILEBONE.NA = true
Export_AREAS.BBS = true
Export_GOLDED = true
GenerateAllFiles = true
MergeNodeLists = true

logfile=mutil.log
logcache=false
loglevel=3
logstamp = YYYY-MM-DD HH:II:SS
logtype = 0
maxlogfiles = 0
maxlogsize = 999999

[Export_FILEBONE.NA]

filename = /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/FILEBONE.NA

[Export_AREAS.BBS]

filename = /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/AREAS.BBS

[Export_GOLDED]

filename = /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/goldedareas.txt

[GenerateAllFiles]

filename = /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/allfiles.txt

[MergeNodeLists]

strip_down = true
strip_private = false
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/FSXNET
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/NODELIST
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/micronet
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/scinet


This behavior might have been around for quite some time (I've used symlinks to where I wanted the files up until now to work around this, but didn't think more of it).

As a work-around, I now run MergeNodeLists separately before the rest of the daily maintenance routines here, so no hurry. :-D

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (77:2/107)

On 13 Feb 2021, Zip said the following...

[MergeNodeLists]

strip_down = true
strip_private = false
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/FSXNET
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/NODELIST
nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/micronet

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

nodefile=/mnt/bbs/echomail/nodelists/scinet

Does this work for you for Micronet?

$ ll ~/mystic/files/fdn_MIN_LIST/
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 9.1K Feb 12 18:00 MICRONET.ZIP

When I had a similar setup to yours Micronet would never compile for me, I ended up having to unzip the archive for it to work. A theory was that Micronet is the only network I have that sends out their nodelist as .ZIP where all of the others send out a .Z## file.

$ ll ~/mystic/files/fdn_FSX_NODE
total 16K
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 13K Feb 11 21:44 FSXNET.Z43

Or are you doing something similar and unzipping your nodelists first?


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (77:1/156)

When MergeNodeLists is enabled, enabling Export_FILEBONE.NA yields a
fatal error , and no output file is created:

Thanks for the report!

I did find a bug today in MergeNodeLists that would cause MUTIL to have issues reading the ini file for processes that ran after it! Its fixed now and it will be in the next prealpha build.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Sector 7 | Mystic WHQ (77:1/138)

Hello Warpslide!

Thank you for your reply!

On 13 Feb 2021, Warpslide said the following...

Or are you doing something similar and unzipping your nodelists first?

Yep, I unzip them, as another piece of software here (ifcico) requires unpacked nodelists. :)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (77:2/107)

Hello g00r00!

On 13 Feb 2021, g00r00 said the following...

I did find a bug today in MergeNodeLists that would cause MUTIL to have issues reading the ini file for processes that ran after it! Its fixed now and it will be in the next prealpha build.

Sounds great! Many thanks!

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (77:2/107)