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to: deon
from: Digital Man
date: 2020-10-24 22:22:00
subject: Message Maintenance

  Re: Message Maintenance
  By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Oct 25 2020 03:23 pm

 > Hey DM,
 >
 > I think think the file glob is resolving in MSGMAINT.
 >
 > Ive noticed that my message base is not pruning, and discovered that
 > MSGMAINT doesnt run:
 >
 > Oct 25 05:00:01 p-1-1 synchronet: evnt MSGMAINT *.shd doesn't exist (use -c
 > to create)
 >
 > The event is configured as:
 > %!smbutil%. mp1000 *.shd */*.shd
 >
 > (Most of my subs are in dirs in ../data/subs - eg: ../data/subs/fsx/)
 >
 > Do you know why isnt it resolving the file glob? How do I fix it?

What is start-up directory set to? Assuming its set to ../data/subs (the default), and if you don't have any sub data in data/subs, that would explain the error. Just remove the "*.shd" from the command-line in that case.
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