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    From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Dec 1 20:22:09 2013
    Hi DM,

    Something I noticed just now - One of the event I have set up in Synchronet is configured to run on Sundays and Wednesdays at 03:00. However, as I logged into my BBS just now, I noticed in the terminal log that it said my time has been reduced due to that event happening tomorrow (Monday) at 03:00. That is a day after it's scheduled in my Synchronet configuration. I'm not sure if that is a bug, but I wanted to let you know.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sun Dec 1 22:57:34 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Dec 01 2013 08:22 pm

    Hi DM,

    Something I noticed just now - One of the event I have set up in Synchronet is configured to run on Sundays and Wednesdays at 03:00. However, as I logged into my BBS just now, I noticed in the terminal log that it said my time has been reduced due to that event happening tomorrow (Monday) at 03:00. That is a day after it's scheduled in my Synchronet configuration. I'm not sure if that is a bug, but I wanted to let you know.

    When logging in as sysop (or any T-exempt user), you will notice odd time reduction notices because you have an usually long amount of time allowed per login. I think what you're describing is normal.

    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Mon Dec 2 08:45:52 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Dec 01 2013 22:57:34

    Something I noticed just now - One of the event I have set up in
    Synchronet is configured to run on Sundays and Wednesdays at 03:00.
    However, as I logged into my BBS just now, I noticed in the terminal
    log that it said my time has been reduced due to that event happening
    tomorrow (Monday) at 03:00. That is a day after it's scheduled in my

    When logging in as sysop (or any T-exempt user), you will notice odd
    time reduction notices because you have an usually long amount of time allowed per login. I think what you're describing is normal.

    Ah, I see. I guess it's nothing to be concerned about - And that event actually didn't run last night after all..

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Dec 2 15:45:51 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Dec 02 2013 08:45 am

    Ah, I see. I guess it's nothing to be concerned about - And that event actually didn't run last night after all..


    i use an external program for my scheduled events. i just prefer it that way and it's very feature rich.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Mro on Mon Dec 2 19:51:24 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Mon Dec 02 2013 15:45:51

    i use an external program for my scheduled events. i just prefer it that way and it's very feature rich.

    Is it something like cron?
    Also, some events require preventing users from logging in (or at least preventing use of certain doors, such as events that run door maintenance). How do you deal with that using an external program for events?

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Dec 2 22:15:44 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Nightfox to Mro on Mon Dec 02 2013 07:51 pm

    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Mon Dec 02 2013 15:45:51

    i use an external program for my scheduled events. i just prefer it that way and it's very feature rich.

    Is it something like cron?


    no it's like a windows scheduler replacement.
    for linux i use cron

    Also, some events require preventing users from logging in (or at least preventing use of certain doors, such as events that run door maintenance). How do you deal with that using an external program for events?

    i never worried about it cause i never ran into problems.
    other than freaking usurper taking forever to run maint, but that's been
    fixed now.

    for some doors i enter in some script in the batchfile so it checks to see if maint is ran then runs it when the user enters. since most doorgame maint isnt lenghly, it doesnt take long.

    i dont want to prevent users from logging in because nobody likes that and they proably wont make the effort to wait x minutes and try again.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Mro on Mon Dec 2 22:07:31 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Mon Dec 02 2013 22:15:44

    for some doors i enter in some script in the batchfile so it checks to
    see if maint is ran then runs it when the user enters. since most
    doorgame maint isnt lenghly, it doesnt take long.

    i dont want to prevent users from logging in because nobody likes that
    and they proably wont make the effort to wait x minutes and try again.

    Hopefully the door game maints don't take long.. I've seen some doors that run their maintenance the first time a user runs them (they'll actually tell the user it's running its maintenance too). I've always thought those would be frustrating for the user.. I'd just want to play the game.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT to Nightfox on Wed Dec 4 00:11:46 2013
    Re: Synchronet event scheduling
    By: Nightfox to Mro on Mon Dec 02 2013 10:07 pm


    Hopefully the door game maints don't take long.. I've seen some doors that run their maintenance the first time a user runs them (they'll actually
    tell the user it's running its maintenance too). I've always thought those would be frustrating for the user.. I'd just want to play the game.

    oh, just usurper when the npc stuff was turned on.
    i guess that's fixed now, though.
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  • From Access Denied@VERT to Mro on Wed Dec 4 14:54:24 2013
    Hello Mro,

    04 Dec 13 00:11, you wrote to Nightfox:

    oh, just usurper when the npc stuff was turned on.
    i guess that's fixed now, though.

    Confirmed. I recently installed the latest Usurper on my Mystic/linux VM and there's no issue with the NPC checking anymore, without a need to turn of anything that is. Looks like according to the "whatsnew" or whatever, that was fixed a few versions ago. .23c maybe? Now it's on .23f.

    When I talked to Ree about it, he had mentioned possibly porting the next version to Free Pascal as well, since the native linux version is throwing out some error codes and doesn't work properly. For now I'm using the DOS version with dosemu and it works great. Once ported to Free Pascal, I'll move to the native linux version.. since I can then compile it myself with tools I already have installed.

    Regards,
    Nick

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