Subj : Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
To : Dan Clough
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Mar 08 2025 08:21 pm
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
By: Dan Clough to Digital Man on 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
There's no internal code prefix for the file library in which "uploads" exists?
> and contains files that match "pal*.zip".
Maybe try a simpler test, just give an exact filename first?
> Does capitalization/case matter, I wonder? This is SBBS running on
> Linux.
It should not be case-sensitive.
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