Subj : Binkd tools (TIC, FREQ's...), gating, and setup
To   : Alan Ianson
From : rick christian
Date : Fri Sep 23 2016 10:33 pm

On 09/20/2016 04:44 PM, Alan Ianson -> rick christian wrote:

AI> My binkd is daemonized so it is always listening and watching to
AI> outbound to see if anything needs to be sent. In my cron setup I just
AI> touch the .flo file for nodes I want to poll. Here's a look at one of my
AI> crontab lines..

AI> 03 */1 * * * touch /usr/local/fido/outbound/00991e23.flo

That just seems wrong to my brain.... as the mailer should have/understand
something

binkd poll 1:135/0

put that in cron directly or some BASH script...

And it seems that after slogging through about 1000+ of the archive

something along the lines of

binkd -nP1:135/0 ~/fido/binkd/binkd.cfg

Is the solution.. the key is that n.. not -pPxxxxx as the just cause binkd to
go spastic... maybe that's how things ran/run in the Binkley world... to my FD
brain... je ne comprende! In other words that may be what FD was doing in the
background.. it hid it well from admins...

While I get that in the net age of Fido, that polling is/may not be as
imperative... but in my brain PROPER Fido'quette would be to at least poll some
what every few hours or so...just the way I see it.

AI> Htick will do everything you need to do with tics. It will require that
AI> you take the time to do the setup but it will do what you want it to do.

meh....meh... htick and hpt would be nice, if they were separated from the rest
of the bloat of that other project... I aksed about how to separate the bloat
in another echo...


AI> I am in the midst of setting up mfreq. It also requires some setup but I
AI> think it is well worth it.

AI> There is also FREQ-U that is a more simple freq setup much like FD used
AI> back in the day, and maybe some still use today.

AI> Both of those are freqable from the authors or I can plonk what I have
AI> here in your inbound for you to look over.

You can send them over, still use the temp node we setup for now... paperwork
still in progress.

Along with any example setups for both and comments you have on preferences..
FREQ-U may be more up my alley, as its FD related...


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