Subj : Re: capturing tool output
To   : Rampage
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jan 06 2019 03:52 pm

  Re: Re: capturing tool output
  By: Rampage to Digital Man on Sun Jan 06 2019 05:46 pm

 >  > The temp directory is cleared out often, so perhaps you should
 >  > create the addfiles.log somewhere else.
 >
 >
 > that was it! now we have a log and guess what they've been fighting all
 > along?
 >
 >
 > > Okay... so about a half hour ago I got a deadbeef, it failed as
 > > usual, but this time there *IS* an addfiles.log in my \sbbs\data
 > > directory!
 > > Here's the content of that log:
 >
 > > SBBSCTRL environment variable not set.
 >
 > > Example: SET SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
 >
 > > ADDFILES v3.03-Win32 (rev 1.54) - Adds Files to Synchronet Filebase
 >
 >
 > > Now.... I do in fact have that env variable set, just went and double
 > > checked it.  It's weird how you set it in Windoze, but google told me
 > > how and I've had it there all along, since first installing the BBS.
 > > Confirmed with a "set" command in a terminal window and it shows:
 > > SBBSCTRL=C:\sbbs\ctrl
 >
 > > Strange...
 >
 >
 > i don't know how they are running their installation on their windows... i'd
 > probably be kicking if off from a BAT file and put the necessary SET
 > statements in there... i don't know if they are running it from a command
 > prompt or as a service or what... i don't do windows anymore so i'm in the
 > dark on where/how they need to set this...

That's covered in detail here: http://wiki.synchro.net/config:env

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