Re: doorscan
  By: deon to Digital Man on Wed Jan 20 2021 11:06 pm

 > DM,
 >
 > Looking for your advise with the following.
 >
 > I've setup SBBS as a door server, using rlogin with xtrn= to login and
 > execute a game - it works well. :)
 >
 > I was running doorscan.js and added it to xtrn_sec.js (in mods/) as per the
 > example in doorscan.txt
 >
 > I've noticed, that if I rlogin without a door code (normal rlogin), that
 > xtrn_sec is run when I get to the menu, and again when I launch a door. (As
 > expected)
 >
 > If however, I rlogin with a door code (xtrn=), the door is run, but
 > xtrn_sec is not run at all. Should it be executed before the door in this
 > case?

No. The xtrn_sec module is a menu where the user can select what external program to run (or none).

 > I then thought I'd play with modopts.ini and use the eval_before_exec - to
 > see if it would run the doorscan code.

It can if you have the latest sbbs v3.18c with the prextrn module in exec.

 > When I first used
 > eval_before_exec = load("../xtrn/doorscan/doorscan.js","run",prog.code);
 >
 > I noticed SBBS restarted after logging in (assuming it crashed?) and nothing
 > in syslog about it. I have logging set to Debugging.
 >
 > (After some more debugging, it appears it run 165 times before sbbs
 > restarted - so I guess it looped and ran out of memory?)
 >
 > If I changed prog.code to prog.name (which should generate an error) - it
 > does generate an error and the door runs just fine.
 >
 > Should the eval_before_exec() work with doorscan?

Yes, if you're using the prextrn module.
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