• Re: File FReq

    From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 05:07:44
    On 09 Sep 2020, 03:57p, Al said the following...

    mfreq also has "SmartMagic" that makes life so much simpler for freqs
    that change filenames often, like nodelists.

    Hey Al,

    I had mfreq running here for awhile with no issues at all. Now all of a
    sudden, I'm seeing errors in the SRIF log file...
    Syntax error in index lookup file (/home/bbs/mfreq/database/main.lookup)!

    Then it tells me that: mfreq-srif v3.19 ended with error

    I've removed all of the main index files, and re-ran mfreq-index to recreate them, but I'm still seeing the error in the SRIF log. There is no error or anything in the INDEX.log.

    I wish the logs would give a little more information when theres an error...

    Any ideas?


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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 05:21:48
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:07a, Black Panther said the following...

    I had mfreq running here for awhile with no issues at all. Now all of a sudden, I'm seeing errors in the SRIF log file...
    Syntax error in index lookup file (/home/bbs/mfreq/database/main.lookup)!

    Never mind... I figured it out... Evidently it doesn't like it when there's over 125,000 files indexed... ;)

    It should be working again.


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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 04:29:54
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    I've removed all of the main index files, and re-ran mfreq-index to recreate them, but I'm still seeing the error in the SRIF log. There is no error or anything in the INDEX.log.

    I have not seen that error so I'm not sure. Has anything changed in the config that you can think of?

    I wish the logs would give a little more information when theres an error...

    It's a bugger when the logs don't have good info for you. I would try from scratch again with a basic config and build it up piece by piece and see if you





















































































































    can figure out where/how it breaks.

    I can try some requests to test if you like.

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 04:32:20
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    Never mind... I figured it out... Evidently it doesn't like it when there's over 125,000 files indexed... ;)

    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you can get it working with a large filebase, and if you do we could all use the fix.. :)

    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:14:18
    On 09 Oct 2020, 04:29a, Al said the following...

    I can try some requests to test if you like.

    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but I'd like confirmation. :)


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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:16:48
    On 09 Oct 2020, 04:32a, Al said the following...

    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you can get it working with a large filebase, and if you do we could all use the fix.. :)

    I'll take a look at it. Not sure if I can do anything with it or not, beside not trying to index 125,533 files... :)

    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

    I had heard he left Fido. Not sure if he's come back or not. It would be nice... :)


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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 05:29:12
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    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but I'd like confirmation. :)

    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Shall I try again?

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 05:31:52
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    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

    I had heard he left Fido. Not sure if he's come back or not. It would be nice... :)

    He did leave fido and I don't think he'll be back but he may respond to email. If so he would likely know just where to look..

    My filebase is only 2500 files so I have a ways to go before I get in trouble.

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:37:46
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:29a, Al said the following...

    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but like confirmation. :)

    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Wrong system. :) try my main BBS system at bbs.castlerockbbs.com:24554

    Shall I try again?

    If you could. Thank you.


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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:39:30
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:31a, Al said the following...

    He did leave fido and I don't think he'll be back but he may respond to email. If so he would likely know just where to look..

    I'll try looking at the code and see what I can figure out. If I don't get anywhere with it, we can try emailing him.

    My filebase is only 2500 files so I have a ways to go before I get in trouble.

    I think you have a long ways to go. :) I've got it at just over 7000 right
    now.


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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:08:42
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    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Wrong system. :) try my main BBS system at bbs.castlerockbbs.com:24554

    Ahh.. right I forgot about that.

    Shall I try again?

    If you could. Thank you.

    I got allfiles and fsxnet just fine but fsxnode failed but it seems to work well.

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:09:20
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    I think you have a long ways to go. :) I've got it at just over 7000 right now.

    Yep, I probably don't need to worry at all.. ;)

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 07:15:30
    On 09 Oct 2020, 06:39a, Black Panther said the following...

    I'll try looking at the code and see what I can figure out. If I don't
    get anywhere with it, we can try emailing him.

    I may end up having to find his email... I'm looking at the code, and it
    looks like there is an overflow counter that says:

    if (Counter >= 1000000) /* keep it reasonable, not UINT_MAX */

    Sure sounds like a reasonable number to me. ;)

    There is also a limit on the number of aliases it can handle.

    if (AliasNumber <= 10000) /* limit to 10000 */

    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wondering
    if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properly,
    but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)


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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Friday, October 09, 2020 06:26:36
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    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wondering if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properly, but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page at..

    https://github.com/ftnapps/mfreq

    There may be current info there to get a hold of him.. hopefully.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Black Panther on Saturday, October 10, 2020 05:00:00
    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you

    You need a longint? :)

    Spec


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  • From HSM@21:2/162 to Al on Friday, October 09, 2020 15:42:10
    136
    On 09 Oct 2020, Al said the following...

    136
    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wonde if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properl but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of
    the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page at..

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    -=- Gary aka HSM -=-
    -=Mystic.BBSGameTime.com=-

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to HSM on Saturday, October 10, 2020 09:32:16
    On 09 Oct 2020 at 03:42p, HSM pondered and said...

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    Nah it's a minor bug related to SEEN-BY lines that get munged with Mystic
    MUTIL at the HUBs, I'm aware g00r00 fixed it in a pre-alpha for A47 but so
    far we've not updated the HUBs to it, probably won't for now.

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to HSM on Friday, October 09, 2020 19:15:48
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    136
    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wonde >> > if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properl >> > but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of
    the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page
    at..

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    Yeah, that's a curious little bugger. I don't see that problem on my Mystic I think because I get mail via MBSE. It might be the version in use by your hub although I'm not sure.

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Avon on Friday, October 09, 2020 19:47:46
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    Nah it's a minor bug related to SEEN-BY lines that get munged with Mystic MUTIL at the HUBs, I'm aware g00r00 fixed it in a pre-alpha for A47 but so far we've not updated the HUBs to it, probably won't for now.

    Yep, it's too nad that showed up in the A46 version. The hubs must have to think twice before moving in the direction of a prealpha.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Mindsurfer on Saturday, September 12, 2020 04:22:00
    plus you need a computer with parallel port wich is a rare thing

    That's a strange one... never saw a parallel tape drive, only CD and HD boxes.
















































































































































    All the tape drives I've come across are either floppy bus or scsi. The floppy bus ones are all some version of the Colorado setup which use a TR1/2/3 encoding onto the tape.

    Spec


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