Hi Rob,


Got a strange one for you, Never seen anything like this before. I updated the SCFG executable for WINXP from your nightly builds a little before Christmas, It took me this long to realize that sometime after I replaced SCFG, I had a Nightly, and Weekly event setup to run batchfiles for some maint, etc.. Well after the upgrade, these two events were deleted and nothing was left except the default events that come with the install. I've never quite seen anything like it. Have you?

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Re: Timed Events
By: kk4qbn to Digital Man on Wed Jan 04 2017 10:06 am

Hi Rob,

Got a strange one for you, Never seen anything like this before. I updated the SCFG executable for WINXP from your nightly builds a little before Christmas, It took me this long to realize that sometime after I replaced SCFG, I had a Nightly, and Weekly event setup to run batchfiles for some maint, etc.. Well after the upgrade, these two events were deleted and nothing was left except the default events that come with the install. I've never quite seen anything like it. Have you?

No, but there's likely an explanation. Is it possible you also over-wrote your ctrl/xtrn.cnf file (either with a backup or a stock version)?

digital man

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Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to kk4qbn on Wed Jan 04 2017 10:19 am

No, but there's likely an explanation. Is it possible you also over-wrote your ctrl/xtrn.cnf file (either with a backup or a stock version)?

*if* I did, I had to try hard to, because afaik all I have updated were the executables and loadable modules, I made sure not to overwrite anything in the CTRL dir because I would have lost all my configuration. so I presume nothing else could change the events other than replacing the xtrn.cnf, I might have some how did it, but for the life of me cannot see when or how..

Was'nt like it was a big loss or anything, those two items are the only thing I lost, nothing else like doorgame config, etc was touched. I just realized when coming back from Christmas holiday that my bulletins, etc were all about 2 weeks old because my nightly and weekly was not run..

just something that aroused my curiosity.. I cannot say I did'nt screw it up somewhere, but I've never had to rescue the system from a backup, nor have I installed anything since replacing the binaries after you made the CVS commit for SCFG on the crashing when inserting file area deal.. actually this is the smoothest the system has run since I got it back up, I presume because I haven't been around to muck around with stuff :-)

I dunno.. I'll keep an eye out for it. if it never happens again I'll be 100% sure it was something I have done :)

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Re: Timed Events
By: kk4qbn to Digital Man on Wed Jan 04 2017 07:20 pm

Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to kk4qbn on Wed Jan 04 2017 10:19 am

No, but there's likely an explanation. Is it possible you also over-wrote your ctrl/xtrn.cnf file (either with a backup or a stock version)?

*if* I did, I had to try hard to, because afaik all I have updated were the executables and loadable modules, I made sure not to overwrite anything in the CTRL dir because I would have lost all my configuration. so I presume nothing else could change the events other than replacing the xtrn.cnf, I might have some how did it, but for the life of me cannot see when or how..

There should be auto-generated back-ups of your xtrn.cnf in your ctrl directory in case you want to roll-back to an earlier version/date (xtrn.#.cnf).

digital man

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Re: Timed Events
By: Digital Man to kk4qbn on Wed Jan 04 2017 11:53 pm

There should be auto-generated back-ups of your xtrn.cnf in your ctrl directory in case you want to roll-back to an earlier version/date (xtrn.#.cnf).

Yeah, they are there.. but its not really an issue, like I said, just two timed events, took like 2 seconds to add them back.. I'm just curious as to where they went, I would presume the xtrn.cnf also houses other external information like doors, etc right? nothing happened to them... hell maybe I deleted them in my sleep or something.

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Re: Timed Events
By: kk4qbn to Digital Man on Thu Jan 05 2017 11:10 am

Yeah, they are there.. but its not really an issue, like I said, just two timed events, took like 2 seconds to add them back.. I'm just curious as to where they went, I would presume the xtrn.cnf also houses other external information like doors, etc right?

Right.


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