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    From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to All on Fri Jan 22 20:25:35 2021
    Weird one... a HUB running v1.12 A46 Windows/64 Compiled 2020/04/21 16:49:16

    Had a few nodes that had seemingly lost their 'use filebox' setting. The item was blank. This led to some nodes liked to assorted file bases having 400+ files in their fileboxes but nothing being sent to them when the polled the
    HUB or the HUB polled them.

    I manually reinstated the settings and then files flowed.

    Something looked suspicious from the start as there were nodes with the same amount of files in them all dating back to around the same time.

    I'm wondering if somehow data got screwed for echomail nodes during an update or upgrade etc.?

    Anyway seems to be sorted now.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)
  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Paul Hayton on Sat Jan 30 22:10:04 2021
    Had a few nodes that had seemingly lost their 'use filebox' setting. The item was blank. This led to some nodes liked to assorted file bases
    having 400+ files in their fileboxes but nothing being sent to them when the polled the HUB or the HUB polled them.

    Could it be possible that these were configured when MUTIL or BINKP were tossing/transfering mail to any of those nodes? Its possible that some configuration stuff for echomail nodes could be overwritten because of statistics updating. For example:

    1. You start editind node 1:1/1
    2. 1:1/1 connects, MIS/MUTIL read in their echonode record
    3. You update a save node 1:1/1 in the editor
    4. Stuff happens, statistics happens
    5. MIS/MUTIL update the statistics, overwriting the saved changes you made with the record it read in during step 2

    I suppose if you saw this happen with a lot of nodes maybe thats less likely to have happened though.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/01/29 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 | Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)
  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to g00r00 on Sun Jan 31 17:15:19 2021
    On 30 Jan 2021 at 10:10p, g00r00 pondered and said...

    Had a few nodes that had seemingly lost their 'use filebox' setting. item was blank. This led to some nodes liked to assorted file bases having 400+ files in their fileboxes but nothing being sent to them w the polled the HUB or the HUB polled them.

    Could it be possible that these were configured when MUTIL or BINKP were tossing/transfering mail to any of those nodes? Its possible that some

    I guess so but the truth is I really don't know how/when it happened. Suffice to say it seemed to have impacted a select number of echomail nodes at the
    time because I could see the same number of banked up files in their file boxes, all with the same date stamps etc..

    I suppose if you saw this happen with a lot of nodes maybe thats less likely to have happened though.

    It's just something I'd observed on the NET 2 HUB for fsxNet, but the NET 1
    HUB has never (as far as I know) had any similar issues.

    Just figured I'd log it with you in case something rears again down the
    track. :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)