Hey DM,

Can you help me understand these bad packets.

I recall in a previous conversation that SBBS would only keep "10" - I'm now up to 18 from VERT, and 1 from another QWK host. Is this a setting somewhere (that maybe I've clobbered)?
...deon


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Re: bad QWK packets
By: Alterego to Digital Man on Fri Dec 20 2019 09:13 am

Hey DM,

Can you help me understand these bad packets.

I recall in a previous conversation that SBBS would only keep "10" - I'm now up to 18 from VERT, and 1 from another QWK host. Is this a setting somewhere (that maybe I've clobbered)?

No, the keep-10 *.bad files is hard-coded in sbbs (since Aug-14-2019). Now, that's 10 of each *.q??.bad, so if you have *.qwk.bad files, it'll keep last 10 of those. If you have *.qw0.bad files, it'll keep the last 10 of those too.

digital man

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Re: bad QWK packets
By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Dec 19 2019 03:27 pm

No, the keep-10 *.bad files is hard-coded in sbbs (since Aug-14-2019). Now, that's 10 of each *.q??.bad, so if you have *.qwk.bad files, it'll keep last 10 of those. If you have *.qw0.bad files, it'll keep the last 10 of those too.

I'm confused, your regex examples above dont match the names I have. So, this list should be shorter - ie: only 10 VERT.qwk.*.bad?

[deon@d-1-1 data]$ ls -1 *bad
DIGDIST.qwk.5d675aac.bad
VERT.qwk.5d675a70.bad
VERT.qwk.5d681a1f.bad
VERT.qwk.5d687043.bad
VERT.qwk.5d6c711a.bad
VERT.qwk.5d7b6207.bad
VERT.qwk.5d7fbf66.bad
VERT.qwk.5d93db72.bad
VERT.qwk.5d9502c2.bad
VERT.qwk.5d9d4208.bad
VERT.qwk.5da80027.bad
VERT.qwk.5daf5a92.bad
VERT.qwk.5daf6899.bad
VERT.qwk.5db219ad.bad
VERT.qwk.5db324df.bad
VERT.qwk.5dc32e08.bad
VERT.qwk.5dc820f4.bad
VERT.qwk.5dcc8d95.bad
VERT.qwk.5dfbf58b.bad
...deon


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Re: bad QWK packets
By: Alterego to Digital Man on Fri Dec 20 2019 01:22 pm

Re: bad QWK packets
By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Dec 19 2019 03:27 pm

No, the keep-10 *.bad files is hard-coded in sbbs (since Aug-14-2019). Now, that's 10 of each *.q??.bad, so if you have *.qwk.bad files, it'll keep last 10 of those. If you have *.qw0.bad files, it'll keep the last 10 of those too.

I'm confused, your regex examples above dont match the names I have.

It was a file mask, not exactly a regexp, but yeah, *.qwk.*.bad is correct.

So,
this list should be shorter - ie: only 10 VERT.qwk.*.bad?

Yes, if you're running the current code from CVS and you received at least one VERT.qwk.*.bad file since you upgraded to the latest.

digital man

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Re: bad QWK packets
By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Dec 19 2019 08:35 pm

Yes, if you're running the current code from CVS and you received at least one VERT.qwk.*.bad file since you upgraded to the latest.

I rebuild SBBS (in full) 8 days ago, and I got a bad packet 5 days ago.

[deon@d-1-2 data]$ ls -tald *bad|head -1
-rw------- 1 root root 8461 Dec 15 09:12 VERT.qwk.5dfbf58b.bad

So by that definition - 8 packets should have been deleted, but they werent. How do I find out why?
...deon


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Re: bad QWK packets
By: Alterego to Digital Man on Fri Dec 20 2019 05:41 pm

Re: bad QWK packets
By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Dec 19 2019 08:35 pm

Yes, if you're running the current code from CVS and you received at least one VERT.qwk.*.bad file since you upgraded to the latest.

I rebuild SBBS (in full) 8 days ago, and I got a bad packet 5 days ago.

[deon@d-1-2 data]$ ls -tald *bad|head -1
-rw------- 1 root root 8461 Dec 15 09:12 VERT.qwk.5dfbf58b.bad

So by that definition - 8 packets should have been deleted, but they werent. How do I find out why?

Looks like it was just a bug. I just committed a fix. Try it.

digital man

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