On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 11:54:06 AM UTC-7, Nicholas Boel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:56:42 GMT, Palkat72 wrote:
> 
>  p> I have setup and got working Mystic BBS for Windows v1112a38 how ever
>  p> twice now it has after about a day stopped working. When I go to restart
>  p> the server program its window will pop up for a quick 1/2 second then
>  p> close.  The nodespy will work, the config
>  p> utility will work but not the actual "mis.exe SERVER".
> 
>  p> I have tried to replace the data, msgs, menus etc folders with backups
>  p> of when it was working. I even tried to replace the mystic.dat file in
>  p> the root folder with a working copy and still it wont work.
> 
>  p> I have found that I have to start with a fresh install of Mystic then
>  p> copy over my data, msg, menus, logs folders along with the mystic.dat
>  p> file then it will work like nothing happened.
> 
>  p> This is a pain so I would love to know if anyone knows what is causing
>  p> my initial problem where the mis.exe program wont start the server all
>  p> of a sudden.
> 
>  p> Currently I am running it on a windows 7 32bit environment, the first
>  p> time this issue happened I was running it on a windows 10 64 bit
>  p> environment for what that is worth.
> 
>  p> Thanks for ANY help!
> 
> The fact that mis.exe is stopping at some point is a matter on it's own, and 
> something should be mentioned in the logs as to why it shut down (try using 
> debug loglevel).
> 
> But as for restarting, if mis.exe is shut down unexpectedly, take a look for 
> mis.bsy in your semaphore subdirectory and delete it before restarting.
> 
> Regards,
> Nick

Nick,

Thank you for the response and great info, next time it happens I will try
looking for the "mis.bsy" and delete it and see if that will let
the mis.exe run then.  Will let ya know.....now the waiting period for it
to crash again! LOL

Shane.

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