Subj : Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
To : Digital Man
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Mar 08 2025 08:31 pm
-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-
> I'm re-visiting setting up the FREQ function on my system, and having
> trouble with it. I've edited the ../sbbs/ctrl/freqit.ini to have a "magic
> word" (ALLFILES) set up to a particular file directory, which is pretty
> straightforward. So then, from a test system I have (running SBBS as a
> point from my main system), I send a netmail to my main system. I've tried
> various "To:" names, and the subject line is: FR: ALLFILES . The point
> generates the crash netmail and sends it to my BBS. I watch the logs and I
> see the connection, and then it receives (two) .req files and deletes them
> both, and..... that's it. Binkit closes the connection, there are no error
> messages, and nothing else happens.
>
> Does anyone have FREQ working on their system? Is there something else that
> needs to be set up? Not sure what I'm missing here... Thanks for info.
DM> What are the contents of your ctrl/freqit.ini file?
; Global Keys:
; Dirs: Comma-separated list of BBS directories to allow FREQing from.
; SecureDirs: As with Dirs, but only if it is a secure session.
; MaxFiles: The max files that can be FREQed in a single request.
;
; Magic words...
; Each section name is a magic word. Magic sections support the following:
; Dir: REQUIRED. The file directory to search for the file.
; Secure: Boolean... if true, only available on secure sessions.
; Match: A wildcard to identify the file. The most recently uploaded match
; to this will be returned.
Dirs=uploads
;SecureDirs=
MaxFiles=10
[ALLFILES]
Dir=uploads
Secure=No
Match=pal*.zip
The "uploads" name is the Internal Code of that file area, which does
exist, and contains files that match "pal*.zip".
Does capitalization/case matter, I wonder? This is SBBS running on
Linux.
