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    From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Mar 6 14:08:50 2020
    I’m trying to change dir locations in Dove-Net QWK in my Bbs globally. How do you do this?

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  • From Alan Ianson@VERT to The Millionaire on Fri Mar 6 14:14:10 2020
    Hello The,

    I’m trying to change dir locations in Dove-Net QWK in my Bbs
    globally. How do you do this?

    I wouldn't worry any about that. The dove-net areas are in the default locations and working fine.

    The fsxnet areas have their own location and the fido areas will also, probably
    have a few directories of their own.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Alan Ianson on Fri Mar 6 15:49:53 2020
    Hello The,

    I wouldn't worry any about that. The dove-net areas are in the default locations and working fine.

    The fsxnet areas have their own location and the fido areas will also, probably
    have a few directories of their own.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    It looks neatly organized now Al. Put all the networks in their own separate directories.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Fri Mar 6 18:12:17 2020
    Re: Changing dir locations in message areas globally
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Mar 06 2020 02:08 pm

    I'm trying to change dir locations in Dove-Net QWK in my Bbs globally. How do you do this?

    the data dir?

    digital man

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  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to The Millionaire on Fri Mar 6 20:56:47 2020
    The wrote:
    I'm trying to change dir locations in Dove-Net QWK in my Bbs globally. How do
    you do this?

    $ The Millionaire $

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    /sbbs/data/subs is where message base files are
    /sbbs/data/dirs is where your files are.

    In SCFG->Message Areas > Fidonet (example) -> Manage Sub-boards

    Pick your first board -> Advanced options

    In there I have Storage Directory set to ../data/subs/fidonet/

    So all my fidonet message boards are in ../data/subs/fidonet

    So this is what it looks like

    bbs@bbs:~$ ls -l /sbbs/data/subs
    total 612
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 20480 Mar 1 05:07 adventurenet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 4096 Mar 1 05:07 agoranet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 12288 Mar 1 05:07 amiganet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 4096 Mar 1 05:07 combatnet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 12288 Mar 1 05:07 cscn
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 12288 Mar 1 05:07 DevNet
    drwxrwxr-x 2 bbs bbs 4096 Mar 1 05:07 dorenet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 4096 Mar 1 05:07 dovenet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 4096 Mar 1 05:07 dovenet.save
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 126976 Mar 1 16:34 familynet
    drwxrwx--- 2 bbs bbs 151552 Mar 1 05:07 fidonet

    It's pretty clean and easy to maintain. Now, I would shut my board down then move your existing files into the new groups, then run scfg to change the location then startup sbbs, otherwise you'll create a load of blank files.

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to The Millionaire on Sat Mar 7 07:45:48 2020
    Re: Changing dir locations in message areas globally
    By: The Millionaire to Alan Ianson on Fri Mar 06 2020 03:49 pm

    It looks neatly organized now Al. Put all the networks in their own separate directories.

    I have this done for my usenet areas, and something I ran into was that the nightly/weekly smbchk maintenance won't run on those.

    Turns out a couple of my usenet areas had 40GB files on my disk, and it was wreaking all kinds of havoc (not just disk space issues, either). Once I ran the prune/pack on those areas, everything is working so much better.


    Just something to keep in mind.

    DaiTengu

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