I think it would be very helpful if Mystic could log automated acts that it takes when functions such as this one do something.

While I appreciate it may be recorded in the MUTIL logs I'm thinking a lot of stuff gets logged there (I tend to run things at Level 3 also to help debig stuff) and it can be quite a task to go through those logs to find out if something happened as a result of (let's say) running this function once a
day as part of a maint.ini process.

I was wondering if one logging text file could be created that summarized any key changes Mystic took as a result of an automated function being TRUE in
this function (or any other future functions)?

The file could log date/time/actions taken and could just be a copy of or
part of something already being written to the MUTIL log, if that made it easier.

Here's an imaginary log file I made up as I have not yet tested this new function.

+ 2020.03.02 00:07:44 Node 88 Session (HOLD) Errors (542) Days (7)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:22 Node 17 set Inactive. Days (31)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:23 Node 17 packets purged. Days (31)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:27 Node 17 filebox (fsxnet_z21n1n117) purged. Days (31)

Thanks for considering.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/02/29 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

+ 2020.03.02 00:07:44 Node 88 Session (HOLD) Errors (542) Days (7)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:22 Node 17 set Inactive. Days (31)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:23 Node 17 packets purged. Days (31)
+ 2020.03.02 08:15:27 Node 17 filebox (fsxnet_z21n1n117) purged. Days (31)

This is what the MUTIL log basically looks like now (it actually gives more detail than this I think). If you want to make that a separate log you can do so with MUTIL by simply changing the log filename. IE:

Create a tracker.ini and inside it just have the EchoNodeTracker with a loglevel of 3 pushing to tracker.log. Now you include "mutil tracker" in a weekly maint or something and it will keep a log of everything it does in tracker.log.

Then you can post that log weekly into your email or something and delete it, if you wish to have a notification of all the events that took place.

Would this cover what you're looking for? You can do this sort of thing with any MUTIL function really.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/01 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)

On 02 Mar 2020 at 03:08p, g00r00 pondered and said...

Would this cover what you're looking for? You can do this sort of thing with any MUTIL function really.

It would thanks, so yep ignore that request from me :)

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