Subj : sbbsecho issue
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue Sep 09 2025 10:53:03

I ran into a problem with sbbsecho this morning.  I noticed the FIDOIN &
FIDOOUT events were hanging.  I checked the sbbsecho.log and could not find
any error messages, and there were no error messages showing up in the
console.

Killing the hung instances, opening a terminal, and running sbbsecho by hand
gave me this information:

Node (618:250/1.9) externally locked via:
/sbbs/fido/out.26a/00fa0001.pnt/00000009.bsy (since ??:??)

I checked and that bsy file did not exist.  However, I also noticed that
there was a directory permission issue.  Once fixed, sbbsecho continued and
exited normally.

Would it be possible to have some error message show up either on the sbbs
console, or at least the sbbsecho.log, when something like this is happening?
As noted above, the only way I saw and fixed the error was by running
sbbsecho manually.

Thanks!


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