Ok.
I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would appreciate someone telling me _why_ I'm an idiot...

Some FidoNet conferences got written to badareas.lst (because I hadn't subscribed to them I guess)
I ran scfg and imported badareas.lst, expecting those areas to be created in my msgbase.
Logged into the BBS and said "Yes" to new message scan. This is what I get:

FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Coordinator Contact Confere New: 0 of 0 FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Daily Nodelst process recei New: 0 of 1 FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Echo Routed Netmail Discuss New: 0 of 0 FidoNet [ADM] Zone One Echomail Coordinator New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_brtestes
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet BR.TESTES New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_espanunc
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet ESP.ANUNCIOS-BBS New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_espnewso
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet ESP.NEWSOFT New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_espprueb
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet ESP.PRUEBAS New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_syncprog
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet SYNC PROGRAMMING New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_sysop
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet SYSOP New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_zona4arc
The sysop has been notified.
FidoNet ZONA4.ARCHIVOS New: 0 of 0 Message Scan (270 sub-boards) complete.
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Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Boondock to All on Tue May 04 2021 07:53 pm

Ok.
I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would appreciate someone telling me _why_ I'm an idiot...

Some FidoNet conferences got written to badareas.lst (because I hadn't subscribed to them I guess)
I ran scfg and imported badareas.lst, expecting those areas to be created in my msgbase.
Logged into the BBS and said "Yes" to new message scan. This is what I get:

FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Coordinator Contact Confere New: 0 of 0 FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Daily Nodelst process recei New: 0 of 1 FidoNet [ADM] Zone 1 Echo Routed Netmail Discuss New: 0 of 0 FidoNet [ADM] Zone One Echomail Coordinator New: 0 of 0 !ERROR opening /sbbs/data/subs/fidonet_brtestes
The sysop has been notified.

Your error log (data/error.log) will have more details about the error(s).

Those details will help you (or anyone) root-cause the problem.

Did you run SCFG as a different user than the BBS runs as? Perhaps it's a permissions/ownership issue with the files created by SCFG.
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Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Digital Man to Boondock on Tue May 04 2021 17:01:31

Did you run SCFG as a different user than the BBS runs as? Perhaps it's a permissions/ownership issue with the files created by SCFG.

Spot on. Fixed it now thank you!

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Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Boondock to All on Tue May 04 2021 19:53:00

I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would

Ok,
replying to myself is bad, but I figured it out. For some reason importing the badareas.lst when running scfg from the command line as root set the owner and group to root instead of the bbsowner. Fixed that and it works now,
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Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Boondock to All on Wed May 05 2021 03:51 am

Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Boondock to All on Tue May
04 2021 19:53:00

I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would

Ok,
replying to myself is bad, but I figured it out. For some reason importing the badareas.lst when running scfg from the command line as root set the owner and group to root instead of the bbsowner. Fixed that and it works now,

Were you 'root' when you ran SCFG? Don't do that. :-)
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Boondock wrote to All <=-

I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would

Ok,
replying to myself is bad, but I figured it out. For some reason
importing the badareas.lst when running scfg from the command
line as root set the owner and group to root instead of the
bbsowner. Fixed that and it works now,

I hope you learned something from this experience.

I also hope it's obvious what should have been learned. ;-)



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Subject: Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
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Re: Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Gamgee to Boondock on Sat May 08 2021 18:24:00

I know I did something wrong. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I would

I hope you learned something from this experience.
I also hope it's obvious what should have been learned. ;-)

LOL. Damned right.
Waaaaaay back I had just started a new job and we got a new AIX Box for production. Running a PICK database on Unix was new to all of us. Anyway, I made a classic mistake. We were all working as root (I don't think sudo had even been invented) and I typed:
"rm -r /*&" instead of "rm -r \*&" to get rid of the files that were "xxx.yy*" Well, I'm sure those of you who understand have already winced so badly your face hurts ...

Needless to say, after three days of the factory being down (backups failed up to three days back) I wasn't the most popular person in that company...
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Re: Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
By: Boondock to Gamgee on Mon May 10 2021 02:42 am

Waaaaaay back I had just started a new job and we got a new AIX Box for production. Running a PICK database on Unix was new to all of us. Anyway, I made a classic mistake. We were all working as root (I don't think sudo had even been invented) and I
typed:
"rm -r /*&" instead of "rm -r \*&" to get rid of the files that were "xxx.yy*" Well, I'm sure those of you who understand have already winced so badly your face hurts ...

That's not as bad as typing "rm -rf .*" thinking it will get rid of files that start with a dot, including directories that start with a dot. :)

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Subject: Re: Importing "badareas.lst"
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Boondock wrote to Gamgee <=-

Waaaaaay back I had just started a new job and we got a new AIX Box for production. Running a PICK database on Unix was new to all of us.
Anyway, I made a classic mistake. We were all working as root (I don't think sudo had even been invented) and I typed: "rm -r /*&" instead of
"rm -r \*&" to get rid of the files that were "xxx.yy*" Well, I'm sure those of you who understand have already winced so badly your face
hurts ...

My first IT gig was on a Pick system; a Microdata 9200. We ran an entire college bookstore on it, and I did everything from solder serial connectors, write database queries, write programs in a surprisingly full-featured
version of BASIC, manage line printers, and support a handful of Macs.

I never did the rm -rf thing, but my boss once accidentally deleted one of
the main data dictionaries - had to shut the system down in the middle of
the day to restore from last night's backup.


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