Hello Rj!

Saturday December 02 2017 04:58, you wrote to me:

 > Hi Vince!

 > Vince Coen wrote to Rj Clay:
 VC>> Hello Rj!
 VC>>
 VC>> Friday December 01 2017 08:44, you wrote to All:
 VC>>
 VC>>  > All,
 VC>>
 VC>>  >    What is the prupose of the var/ticqueue directory and does
 VC>> it ever
 VC>>  > get cleaned up? When I orignally went to bring up a backup of
 VC>> my
 VC>>  > MbseBBS system on a new system, I found files there going back
 VC>> some 10
 VC>>  > years.  'Course, most of those older ones would have been under
 VC>> v0.97,
 VC>>  > IIRC, as I didn't upgrade the install to a newer version until
 VC>> I had
 VC>>  > it running again...
 VC>>
 VC>>
 VC>> Hold all of the active .tic files so if empty you should have no
 VC>> o/p when running mbout sta  (apart from the headings and version
 VC>> info.

 >    So inactive .tic files would be ones that have already been sent,
 > and at least in more recent versions get automatically cleaed up?
 > (That was one of concerns as lots of tiny files can really jump up
 > inode usage...)

The nightly script clears these and files/mail that has been sent out from the
outbound directories etc but after the files / mail have been sent there is a
clean up hence when running mbout sta after a poll anything that was on hold 
is
no longer shown.

As you are restoring an OLD back up the various directories that I discused in
a previous email should be cleared if not only for the fact that any nodes set
up in the system will need to be verified if you still need them (assuming 
they
are still around and you are acting as a down/up link for them.

 VC>> So if restoring from an old back up suggest you delete them

 >   That, I've done.


 VC>> and likewise
 VC>> the contents of var/bso/outbound*  but keep the directories.
 VC>>
 VC>> outbound* = outbound.001 , .002, .003 and .004 your own zone will
 VC>> be just outbound without any number after.
 VC>>
 VC>> Oh, you could also have other nets here as well so delete the
 VC>> contents.

 >    Hmmm...  I don't think I've really checked all of those, so I'll be
 > reviewing their contents.

As said above you will need to check your settings for up/down links and
reset/delete/update them, file and mail areas you are connected to may also
need changing, your aka's may also need to be changed.

If you are going to use mbse over a previous BBS then you may well also want 
to
adopt all of the various bbs file areas into mbse using mbfile.

 > Jame


 >     Greetings, Rj Clay
 >     email: admftn@ftn.rocasa.net

That should keep you occupied for an hour or so.

Vince

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