Subj : sbbsecho issue
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 16:18:34

  Re: sbbsecho issue
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Thu Sep 11 2025 11:31 am

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

Correct.

 > > 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.

The "Node (x) external locked ..." messages is actually NOTICE (not INFO) level already. But you had your Log Level set to WARNING.

The "Giving up after ..." log message is a WARNING level already, so that would be found in your sbbsecho.log file with how you had it configured.
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