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PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/21980aee6 Dec 05 2025 GCC 14.2.0
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-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >  > Thank you also for the new writeup posted on the Wiki for this.  I
 >  > tested that this morning, to my system from a "test point" that I have.
 >  > It worked properly, but it did result in the file being sent twice,
 >  > because there ended up being (2) File Requests (.req) sent, for reasons
 >  > unknown.  The requesting system is also running SBBS, if that matters.
 >  > The second file received just over-wrote the first one, in the
 >  > "inbound" directory, so no real harm done, but seems off a little.
 >  > Here's a log snippet of the transaction, from the system that received
 >  > the two requests:

 >  DM> The sbbsecho.log messages concerning the file request would likely be
 >  DM> more helpful.

 > Okay, here is the snippet from the orignating system (the point) from
 > that log.  It shows only the one file request (00870073.req) being
 > generated and sent.  Not sure where that other .req file came from in
 > the original (binkit) log that I posted.  Also, in case it mattered,
 > that line complaining about missing 'areas.bbs', I created an empty one
 > and repeated the test with the same results.

 DM> The "Could not open Area File" error doesn't matter. And the correct
 DM> way to suppress that error would be to set echocfg->Paths and
 DM> Filenames->Area File to a blank string.

Okay, yup.

 > 2025-12-22 15:16:16 Could not open Area File (../data/areas.bbs): No such
 > file or directory
 > 2025-12-22 15:16:16 Created NetMail (1.msg) from Preem Palver (1:135/115.7)
 > to sysop (1:135/115), attr: 0981 (PRIVATE, KILLSENT, LOCAL, FREQ), subject:
 > ALLFILES
 > 2025-12-22 15:16:16 BSO file request from Preem Palver (1:135/115.7) to
 > sysop (1:135/115): ALLFILES
 > 2025-12-22 15:16:16 File (../fido/outbound/00870073.req, 0.0KB) for
 > 1:135/115 added to BSO/FLO file: ../fido/outbound/00870073.dlo
 > 2025-12-22 15:16:16 SBBSecho (PID 46223) exiting with error level 0,
 > NetMail(0 imported, 1 exported, 0 packed)

 > Any clues appreciated, thanks!

 DM> Not really any yet. So you only see the second .req filename mentioned
 DM> in logs on the receiving system?

Yes, that is correct, and since the receiving system gets two, it sends 
the requested file out twice.

Thanks for looking into it.



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