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    From Melkor@VERT/STARFRON to All on Fri May 8 17:28:34 2020
    ive updated my bbs so I have the 3.11 version of sbbsecho. Im trying to get the tickfix.js setup.
    I thought I had it right but one of my nodes sent a %help to filefix as a test and never got a response.
    Can someone help me with the robots section of echocfg please?\

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Melkor on Fri May 8 10:49:14 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Melkor to All on Fri May 08 2020 05:28 pm

    ive updated my bbs so I have the 3.11 version of sbbsecho. Im trying to get the tickfix.js setup.
    I thought I had it right but one of my nodes sent a %help to filefix as a test and never got a response.
    Can someone help me with the robots section of echocfg please?\

    Did you run "jsexec tickfix -install" ?

    Running that should create the following in your sbbsecho.ini:
    [robot:filefix]
    SemFile = ../data/tickfix.now
    attr = 0x20

    which should be all you need (on top of SBBSecho v3.11 obviously).

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Melkor on Fri May 8 15:48:00 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Melkor to All on Fri May 08 2020 17:28:34


    Melkor> ive updated my bbs so I have the 3.11 version of sbbsecho. Im
    Melkor> trying to get the tickfix.js setup.

    did you install it correctly with jsexec?

    Melkor> I thought I had it right but one of my nodes sent a %help to
    Melkor> filefix as a test and never got a response. Can someone help
    Melkor> me with the robots section of echocfg please?\

    if you installed it properly via jsexec, the robot section will automatically be added... you only need the one and people would netmail "filefix" on your system to talk to it...


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  • From Melkor@VERT/STARFRON to Rampage on Fri May 8 22:33:25 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Rampage to Melkor on Fri May 08 2020 03:48 pm

    if you installed it properly via jsexec, the robot section will automatically be added... you only need the one and people would netmail "filefix" on your system to talk to it...
    I got it working now. The only thing they noticed was %list sent them a list of all the file areas instead of just the one net that I'm the hub on.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Melkor on Fri May 8 16:46:28 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Melkor to Rampage on Fri May 08 2020 10:33 pm

    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Rampage to Melkor on Fri May 08 2020 03:48 pm

    if you installed it properly via jsexec, the robot section will automatically be added... you only need the one and people would netmail "filefix" on your system to talk to it...
    I got it working now. The only thing they noticed was %list sent them a list of all the file areas instead of just the one net that I'm the hub on.

    Couldn't you also feed them those areas if you/they wanted?

    There could possibly be some keys in tickit.ini to eliminate or reduce access to so specific areas, but I don't know if anyone really needs that yet.

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  • From Melkor@VERT/STARFRON to Digital Man on Sat May 9 00:45:30 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Digital Man to Melkor on Fri May 08 2020 04:46 pm

    Couldn't you also feed them those areas if you/they wanted?

    There could possibly be some keys in tickit.ini to eliminate or reduce access to so specific areas, but I don't know if anyone really needs that yet.
    Its not a problem. I could if everyone got approval from the higher ups in the networks.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Melkor on Fri May 8 21:17:01 2020
    Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Melkor to Rampage on Fri May 08 2020 22:33:25


    if you installed it properly via jsexec, the robot section will
    automatically be added... you only need the one and people would
    netmail "filefix" on your system to talk to it...

    Melkor> I got it working now. The only thing they noticed was %list sent
    Melkor> them a list of all the file areas instead of just the one net
    Melkor> that I'm the hub on.

    sounds like you have all of your file areas listed instead of just your distributed ones... but remember, too, that tickit and tickfix do not have library permissions security like sbbsecho does with message areas... that will hopefully come, soon-ish... i envision a similar mechanism for FDNs as we're using now for echomail (and QWK) areas...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rampage on Sat May 9 06:59:00 2020
    Rampage wrote to Melkor <=-

    sounds like you have all of your file areas listed instead of just your distributed ones... but remember, too, that tickit and tickfix do not
    have library permissions security like sbbsecho does with message
    areas... that will hopefully come, soon-ish...

    That was something I was curious about -- whether tickfix would be able to request passthrough areas from my uplink.



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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 10 14:53:22 2020
    Re: Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rampage on Sat May 09 2020 06:59:00


    That was something I was curious about -- whether tickfix would be
    able to request passthrough areas from my uplink.

    AFAIK, tickfix does not forward requests for unknown areas upstream... but i've not looked at the code, either...


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 10 13:45:44 2020
    Re: Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rampage on Sat May 09 2020 06:59 am

    Rampage wrote to Melkor <=-

    sounds like you have all of your file areas listed instead of just your distributed ones... but remember, too, that tickit and tickfix do not have library permissions security like sbbsecho does with message areas... that will hopefully come, soon-ish...

    That was something I was curious about -- whether tickfix would be able to request passthrough areas from my uplink.

    I'll take it as a feature request but currently, no.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rampage on Sun May 10 18:18:54 2020
    Re: Re: Sbbsecho and robots
    By: Rampage to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 10 2020 02:53 pm

    AFAIK, tickfix does not forward requests for unknown areas upstream... but i've not looked at the code, either...

    Not yet. :)

    I'm hoping the areafix code would be reusable for filefix at some point. :)

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