Okay, I'm stumped...

mutil is refusing to unzip any packet from fsxNet, and only fsxNet. Anything from Fidonet goes through without issue. On top of that, some packets are
being treated as invalid, even though a second call to mutil will show these packets being imported without problem. Here's a bit of log:

! May 15 15:00:11 Import from /home/dietpi/mystic/echomail/in/
! May 15 15:00:14 8143c83c.pkt is not a valid PKT
! May 15 15:00:14 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su0; skipping
! May 15 15:00:17 8148af2e.pkt is not a valid PKT
! May 15 15:00:17 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su1; skipping
! May 15 15:00:17 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su2; skipping
! May 15 15:00:17 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su3; skipping
! May 15 15:00:20 814db037.pkt is not a valid PKT
! May 15 15:00:20 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su4; skipping

And then a second call:

! May 15 15:00:42 Import from /home/dietpi/mystic/echomail/in/
+ May 15 15:00:42 Importing 8143c83c.pkt (21:4/100 to 21:4/135)
+ May 15 15:00:42 Import #13907 to FSX_GEN
! May 15 15:00:42 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su0; skipping
+ May 15 15:00:42 Importing 8148af2e.pkt (21:4/100 to 21:4/135)
+ May 15 15:00:42 Import #1232 to FSX_NET
! May 15 15:00:42 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su1; skipping
+ May 15 15:00:42 Importing 814b9437.pkt (21:4/100 to 21:4/135)
+ May 15 15:00:42 Import #18141 to FSX_DAT
! May 15 15:00:42 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su2; skipping
+ May 15 15:00:42 Importing 814c9a37.pkt (21:4/100 to 21:4/135)
+ May 15 15:00:42 Import #18142 to FSX_DAT
! May 15 15:00:42 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su3; skipping
+ May 15 15:00:42 Importing 814db037.pkt (21:4/100 to 21:4/135)
+ May 15 15:00:42 Import #18143 to FSX_DAT
! May 15 15:00:42 Cannot find arctype for ce181236.su4; skipping

Currently, I am forced to manually unzip, then call mutil to import the PKTs, and finally manually delete the zipped files. Again, this only affects packets from fsxNet! And I have no idea why!

Thoughts?

McDoob
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Hello McDoob!

On 15 May 2022, McDoob said the following...

mutil is refusing to unzip any packet from fsxNet, and only fsxNet.

Is the Archive Type for the fsxNet echomail node (uplink/boss) set to "ZIP"?

Otherwise it might try to find an archiver for .su0, .su1 etc. files, and
fail?

Best regards
Zip

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Turns out to be a permissions problem in Linux. I've figured it out, mostly.

McDoob (not McNoob, not McBoob, grow up ppl)
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Hello McDoob!

On 16 May 2022, McDoob said the following...

Turns out to be a permissions problem in Linux. I've figured it out, mostly.

Glad to hear that!

Best regards
Zip

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Turns out to be a permissions problem in Linux. I've figured it out, mostly.

McDoob (not McNoob, not McBoob, grow up ppl)
SysOp, PiBBS

If your running mis as sudo that can be an issue if other things are not sudo. Its best to not run it as sudo. if you do choose to stop the following command will help. wherever the mystic directory is you can do this. I have it in /mystic so for me I go to / with cd / then run this chown user:user -R /mystic Replace user with your non-sudo user and it will make everything owned by that user. on a PI it used to be user pi but depending on when you made your install it might not be. What you signing it with is the user you want to use. After this you can run ./mis without sudo. I wouldn't mind helping you if you like I'm Claw22000 in the BBS World on discord send me an IM and I can help you.

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If your running mis as sudo [...]

That's not exactly the problem I was having. My VNC server is running as root, not mis. So, if I were to use a terminal window in VNC, I would be doing so as root. Therefore, when I was doing message polls, the incoming packets would belong to root, not the normal user.

What I need to figure out is how to get the VNC server off root, and onto the normal user. Or, just re-assign the packets I receive this way...

McDoob (not McNoob, not McBoob, grow up ppl)
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On 17 May 2022, McDoob said the following...

That's not exactly the problem I was having. My VNC server is running as root, not mis. So, if I were to use a terminal window in VNC, I would be doing so as root. Therefore, when I was doing message polls, the
incoming packets would belong to root, not the normal user.

What I need to figure out is how to get the VNC server off root, and
onto the normal user. Or, just re-assign the packets I receive this
way...

Have you tried doing su user? this changes the user to whichever user you prefer.

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DrClaw

Empty message, dude.

McDoob
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Have you tried doing su user? this changes the user to whichever user
you prefer.

Excuse me while I slap my forehead a hundred times. I should have thought of this a long time ago. It does nothing about the VNC server running as root, but it certainly solves the problem I was having with polling and mail import.

McDoob
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Excuse me while I slap my forehead a hundred times. I should have
thought of this a long time ago. It does nothing about the VNC server running as root, but it certainly solves the problem I was having with polling and mail import.

Why are you doing it manually? You can use the events system to do it for you.

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Why are you doing it manually? You can use the events system to do it
for you.

I am aware. My DNS service is not currently running, so I am not automatically receiving packets. I do have an hourly event set up, but it is running only hourly, and sometimes I wish to have a quicker update. It's only a temporary issue, anyway...

McDoob
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On 18 May 2022, McDoob said the following...

I am aware. My DNS service is not currently running, so I am not automatically receiving packets. I do have an hourly event set up, but
it is running only hourly, and sometimes I wish to have a quicker
update. It's only a temporary issue, anyway...
update. It's only a temporary issue, anyway...

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS

Just set it to every 15 minutes. That what I did. I have the crash thing ready but don't want to trouble Avon right now. Also you can set it up to pull on every push. That way if your user is being active in the posting it will automatically pull each time too.

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Just set it to every 15 minutes. That what I did. I have the crash
thing ready but don't want to trouble Avon right now. Also you can set
it up to pull on every push. That way if your user is being active in
the posting it will automatically pull each time too.

It's no longer an issue. As I said, it was only temporary, and my DNS service is back online. Now, BinkP is working as it should, and all messages are arriving instantly.

Also, you wouldn't necessarily need to bother Avon to set up BinkP crashing. You'd want to contact your hub controller.

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Which turns out to be Avon anyway. Never mind... (o_-)

McDoob
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On 19 May 2022, McDoob said the following...

It's no longer an issue. As I said, it was only temporary, and my DNS service is back online. Now, BinkP is working as it should, and all messages are arriving instantly.

Also, you wouldn't necessarily need to bother Avon to set up BinkP crashing. You'd want to contact your hub controller.

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Which turns out to be Avon anyway. Never mind... (o_-)

Yup super nice guy was helping me with a ton of issues. As soon as I realized he he was having family matters I told him to focus on that. Someday when hes freed up I will finish getting the kinks out. Its basically working good enough for now. :D

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