Subj : Re: File Request question
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Dec 24 2025 07:47 am

  Re: Re: File Request question
  By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Mon Dec 22 2025 08:57 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-
 >
 >  DM>   Re: Re: File Request question
 >  DM>   By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Mon Dec 22 2025 10:40 am
 >
 >  > 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.  Also, the timestamp
 > difference between these logs is because the sending system is on UTC
 > time.
 >
 > 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, this is my second reply to you on this... Just thought of another thing that might be relevant - I did this same FREQ test from my main BBS to several other FidoNet systems, and got the same results (two .req files sent, and the requested file sent back twice from their system.  The SBBS build is newer on the "test point" system - master/3fa76bald ; and the main/real BBS is 21980aee6.  Both on Linux.  Just wanted you to have this info.

Regards,
Dan

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