Hello All,

I've picked up this echo again.

Are any of you using logrotate to manage the logs MBSE generates?

--Sean

... Good: You came home for a quickie. Bad: So did the postman.
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On 06/21/15, Sean Dennis pondered and said...

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Hello All,

I've picked up this echo again.

Hi Sean... just to let you know you are getting out over my side of the
globe. hope all is well with you :-)

best, Paul

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Hello Sean!

Sunday June 21 2015 12:05, you wrote to All:

Hello All,

I've picked up this echo again.

Are any of you using logrotate to manage the logs MBSE generates?

Yes.

Assume the next question is what/how etc so:

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[vince@study ~]$ tail /etc/logrotate.conf
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here
/home/mbse/log/debug.log /home/mbse/log/error.log /home/mbse/log/manager.log /home/mbse/log/mbmon.log /home/mbse/log/mbtask.log /home/mbse/log/system.log /home/mbse/log/virus.log {
su mbse bbs
create 0664 mbse bbs
monthly
rotate 6
}


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Vince

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Hello Paul,

22 Jun 15 21:05, you wrote to me:

Hi Sean... just to let you know you are getting out over my side of
the globe. hope all is well with you :-)

Glad to know it's getting out! I added a little feature to MBSE for myself. :)

See, I enjoy putting up "holiday" ANSI/ASCII screens. Now MBSE can do so if someone wants to turn on bulletins, but I wanted something simpler, much like what I did when I ran Maximus/2. Using Maximus' scripting language, I programmed in a little script that checked if "holiday.bbs" (Maximus requires all ANSI screens to be converted to bytecode to show correctly) existed, it'd show it. I put a little line in newuser.c that checks for the existence of "holiday.ans/.asc" and shows it.

A very small thing to do but I thought it was fun. I also wrote a few scripts that work together that allow me to automate the nodelist and infopack archive creation and hatching for my own FTN network, Micronet.

MBSE is quite powerful in many ways if you don't mind getting under the hood and learning.

--Sean

... If you become a success, you don't change - Everyone else does.
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Hello Vince,

23 Jun 15 00:49, you wrote to me:

Assume the next question is what/how etc so:

That was exactly what I was going to ask, thank you!

--Sean

... Marriage is not a word but a sentence.
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23 Jun 15 00:49, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

# system-specific logs may be configured here
/home/mbse/log/debug.log /home/mbse/log/error.log /home/mbse/log/manager.log /home/mbse/log/mbmon.log /home/mbse/log/mbtask.log
/home/mbse/log/system.log /home/mbse/log/virus.log {
su mbse bbs
create 0664 mbse bbs

wotz'is "create" line do?

monthly
rotate 6
}

------------------------

)\/(ark

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22 Jun 15 20:04, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

See, I enjoy putting up "holiday" ANSI/ASCII screens. Now MBSE can do so if someone wants to turn on bulletins, but I wanted something simpler,

much

like what I did when I ran Maximus/2. Using Maximus' scripting language,

I

programmed in a little script that checked if "holiday.bbs" (Maximus requires all ANSI screens to be converted to bytecode to show correctly) existed, it'd show it. I put a little line in newuser.c that checks for the existence of "holiday.ans/.asc" and shows it.

does mbse have the ability to display certain files based on the date?

eg:
01-01.ans happy new year
02-14.ans valentines day
03-17.ans st. patricks day
07-04.ans 4th of july
12-**.ans holiday screen for each day of december

i've thought about doing something to allow for the selection of a random screen from a set...

eg:
01-01xxx.ans where xxx is -00 thru -99 or maybe just 000-999 for 1000 choices...

coming up with that many christmas screens would be daunting :)

)\/(ark

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Hello mark!

Tuesday June 23 2015 10:30, you wrote to me:

23 Jun 15 00:49, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

# system-specific logs may be configured here
/home/mbse/log/debug.log /home/mbse/log/error.log
/home/mbse/log/manager.log /home/mbse/log/mbmon.log
/home/mbse/log/mbtask.log
/home/mbse/log/system.log /home/mbse/log/virus.log {
su mbse bbs
create 0664 mbse bbs

wotz'is "create" line do?

using man logrotate it shows:

----------------------
create mode owner group, create owner group
Immediately after rotation (before the postrotate script is run)
the log file is created (with the same name as the log file just
rotated). mode specifies the mode for the log file in octal
(the same as chmod(2)), owner specifies the user name who will
own the log file, and group specifies the group the log file
will belong to. Any of the log file attributes may be omitted,
in which case those attributes for the new file will use the
same values as the original log file for the omitted attributes.
This option can be disabled using the nocreate option. ----------------------



Vince

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23 Jun 15 16:29, you wrote to me:

Hello mark!

Tuesday June 23 2015 10:30, you wrote to me:

23 Jun 15 00:49, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

# system-specific logs may be configured here
/home/mbse/log/debug.log /home/mbse/log/error.log
/home/mbse/log/manager.log /home/mbse/log/mbmon.log
/home/mbse/log/mbtask.log
/home/mbse/log/system.log /home/mbse/log/virus.log {
su mbse bbs
create 0664 mbse bbs

wotz'is "create" line do?

using man logrotate it shows:

yeah, i found that after my message was gone... it is something i've never needed in anything i've every used logrotate on... i actually learned something... the question now is if i'll retain the knowledge or not ;)

)\/(ark

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Hello mark,

23 Jun 15 10:33, you wrote to me:

does mbse have the ability to display certain files based on the date?

From what I've been told, it does (just not documented yet). I'm weird because I like to put the screen up a few weeks before. All it took was one line of C code to do what I want...works fine. :)

--Sean

... Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
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Hello mark!

Tuesday June 23 2015 17:00, you wrote to me:

wotz'is "create" line do?

using man logrotate it shows:

yeah, i found that after my message was gone... it is something i've
never needed in anything i've every used logrotate on... i actually
learned something... the question now is if i'll retain the knowledge
or not ;)

Personally, I found out what was causing that - so I switched drinking beer for
Red wine.

Problem has gone.

Hmm, what was the subject again ? :)


Vince

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