Subj : MBSE script hatched out
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Vince Coen
Date : Tue Jul 08 2014 11:43 am

Hello Sean!

Monday July 07 2014 13:35, you wrote to All:

 > I wrote a simple script to automate the nightly processing of my
 > ALLFILES/NEWFILES listing by creating a proper FILE_ID.DIZ for each
 > archive, creating the archive with the FILE_ID.DIZ, then adopting the
 > files into my BBS with announcements.  The archive is named
 > mbsemkaf.zip.

Found a problem with script:

Line 37,38 & 43 etc :

Remove line 37, replace all occurances of $MBSE_HOME with $MBSE_ROOT

My processing sits in /etc/maint which runs at 07:00 daily.
maint shows as:

=== Cut ===
#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: maint,v 1.2 2001/11/25 20:13:26 mbroek Exp $
#
# MBSE BBS Maintenance - Should be run from cron.
# updated 12/09/02 VBC - modified for newfiles/allfiles and reordered
#                        program execution.
# updated 31/07/04 VBC - test for user mbse at runtime
# updated 13/10/07 VBC - ad rm-f ???files.utf
# updated 14/11/09 VBC - removed 257-609 processing

if [ -z "$MBSE_ROOT" ]; then
    export MBSE_ROOT=`cat /etc/passwd | grep mbse: | awk -F ':' '{ print $6}'`
fi
if [ "`id -un`" != "mbse" ]; then
    echo "Must be run by user 'mbse'"
    exit 1
fi

# Don't do maintenance if running on UPS battery power.
#
if [ -f $MBSE_ROOT/var/sema/upsalarm ]; then
    exit 0
fi

$MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbuser pack kill 180 50 -quiet

cd $MBSE_ROOT/tmp
$MBSE_ROOT/bin/mball list -zip -quiet
cp -f $MBSE_ROOT/etc/f/allfiles.diz FILE_ID.DIZ
zip -umq allfiles FILE_ID.DIZ
cp -f $MBSE_ROOT/etc/f/newfiles.diz FILE_ID.DIZ
zip -umq newfiles FILE_ID.DIZ
$MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbfido ti to -q

cd ..
$MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbmsg kill pack link -quiet
$MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbaff announce filefind -quiet
sleep 180; $MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbfile kill check pack index -quiet

=== Cut ===

 and etc/f/allfiles.diz :

=== Cut ===
All files at Air Applewood zip'd.
Updated 07:00 each day.
=== Cut ===

and etc/f/newfiles.diz

=== Cut ===
All new files (last 30 days) at Air
Applewood zip'd. Updated 07:00 (local).

=== Cut ===

The sleep 180 is a left over from when running with a dual 2 core E6600 but as
now running a AMD FX8350 8 core is not really needed but left in JIC (just in
case).

Can see the usage of having the date imbedded within the file_id.diz along 
with
additional info so will mod it to cater as well as rebuilding the file.


Vince

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