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MSGID: 73958.sync@723:320/1 2d295041
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PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.29-Linux master/7acaccaf1 Sep 08 2025 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: CAPCITY2
CHRS: CP437 2
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>  > It is set to "Warning".  Is that more or less severe than "Informational"?

> A warning is more severe than informational and that means that Info-level
> messages would *not* be written to the sbbsecho.log. I recommend you change
> that back to the default (info) or if/when you're having issues, you change
it
> to Debug.

I don't suspect that I changed it as I would have had no reason to and was
not even aware of that setting until this conversation.  I suspect it has been
set that way, by default, since I first installed synchronet ~20 years ago.

I will set it to the more recent default.

>  > They were written in
>  > the terminal window when sbbsecho was run manually but, in normal
>  > operation, they do *not* show up on the sbbs console or in syslog.

> Correct, because you changed the log level from info to warning which
> instructed SBBSecho to only log warnings and errors to the sbbsecho.log file.

So it will show up in the sbbs console, and the syslog, if set to
"informational"?

> SBBSecho is behaving exactly as designed and documented, it appears to me.

That might be but if sbbsecho is getting a "lock" on a non-existant file
(which it should be able to tell because it cannot find the proper time to
display - it displays ??:??), I would strongly suggest the message in that
case is more than just "informational"...  there *is* something wrong that
*will* require intervention if you want mail to keep flowing.


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