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echo: binkley
to: Kevin Klement
from: Peter Knapper
date: 2005-04-30 09:45:36
subject: Verson260A

Hi Kevin,

 KK> Binkley 260A has lost it's mind over here. I have downlinks that are
 KK> on "hold" because they poll or I dilivier via the internet.

Boy, its been a LONG time (8+ years???) since I used Dial Scripts to access
the Internet from Bink, so some of my memory may be stuck back in time and
have faded some what......;-) I can't find any of my old config for this
around so if I remember correctly you need a Binkley Event file entry to
run an event that causes Binkley to need to poll a Node via a Dialer Script
that does the dialing work. 

The first thing I thought of is that as your events start after midnight,
that suggests to me that Bink is re-reading your Events file at this time,
and thats when things start going wrong, so something has likely changed in
your events files thats causing this. The fact its a dialer script is
probably a red herring, the critical part is "Why is the event being
triggered in the first place?", and the driver for that is within your
Events file. 

Roll back any recent changes you made to that file, also look for any
events that might overlap in execution BEGIN/END time, particularly for
things running past 24:00 hrs. If nothing is obvious, the next step is to
clear out Binks compiled schedule and force a complete Binkley restart to
see what happens.

So to roll things back to the very start (this process will re-run ALL
events for today so be very careful), end Binkley, delete the Binkley.SCD
file (this forces Binkley to "re-compile" that file and run
EVERYTHING up until the  "current" event time), then start Binkey
again. What you want to see are which EVENTS are being run, and when they
kick in. The Binkley LOG file for this will give you the clues... 

I suspect this may not show much at all, because it seems your problem may
relate to the LAST EVENT OF THE DAY being run, so your problem wont be
visible until Binkley does a natural roll over of the day. Also consider
event entries which have recently been added or changed, or which have only
just become ACTIVE (IE an event set to run after a certain date/time/day of
week, etc...).

Lastly, a postig a copy of your .EVT file here may be useful.

Good luck..............pk.


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