Subj : birthdaylist.js
To   : Digital Man
From : DesotoFireflite
Date : Mon May 16 2022 14:37:21

  Re: birthdaylist.js
  By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun May 15 2022 11:02 pm

 DM> Re: birthdaylist.js
 DM> By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sat May 14 2022 12:29 pm
 >> Can you think of any reason birthdaylist.js would just stop working.
 >> It was working fine up to yesterday, and wam, it just locks up the
 >> system. 

 DM> And by "the system", I'm guessing you just mean the current node.

Yes, just the node. Sorry, I should have said that

 >> You can
 >> see the curser blinking on the remote end, and that's it. It's not
 >> throwing any errors, it just locks up everytime.

 DM> Do you get the same behavior when running it using jsexec?

Yes, heres a screen print. it gets to the last line, then locks
up the window with the curser blinking a "-" just under the last line.

C:\SBBS\exec>jsexec birthdaylist

JSexec v3.19c-Win32 master/0b34b299a - Execute Synchronet
Compiled Mar 20 2022 05:05:47 with MSC 1929

Loading configuration files from C:\sbbs\ctrl
JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
JavaScript: Creating runtime: 167772160 bytes

Reading script from C:\SBBS\exec\birthdaylist.js
C:\SBBS\exec\birthdaylist.js compiled in 0.00 seconds

 >> I have not made any changes or added
 >> anything to the system in several weeks, so I can rule out operator
 >> error on my part. I had one new user log in and register 0n 5/13/2022,
 >> and I noticed it stopped working after that. I don't see anything in
 >> his settings that would cause a problem. He did use a birthdate of
 >> 19810101, so I changed that thinking that may be the problem, and no
 >> change. I've also tried to use it using the sysop ;EXEC command, and
 >> it just locks up the system also. For now I have just removed it, but
 >> I'd like to solve the issue. Since it's not throwing any errors, is
 >> there a way to debug it that would be easy for me to see what is going
 >> on. Thanks in advance. 

 DM> No immediate ideas. I probably start adding log() lines to
 DM> exec/birthdaylist.js and load/birthdays.js to find out exactly where is
 DM> locking or infinite-looping (more likely).

Can you give me an example of a good log line. Still learning the js Stuff. 
Thanks

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