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to: Dumas Walker
from: Digital Man
date: 2024-03-10 13:55:00
subject: Re: RA to SBBS QWK Networ

  Re: Re: RA to SBBS QWK Networ
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Mar 10 2024 09:59 am

 > > Synchronet has a lot of per-user configuration options for how QWK packets
 > > are
 > > reated. I would try experimenting with them.
 >
 > I received an email this am from a user complaining about how the board was
 > acting and mentioned the time change.  I thought they were mistaken.

What was their complaint?

 > I tried logging on just now to give Marty a little guidance on how to
 > "work" the QWK configuration settings.  I received a "sorry time reduced...
 > goodbye" result for a system event that is allegedly scheduled for 05:00.
 >
 > Local time is now after 09:30 and I have confirmed that the OS time (linux)
 > is correct.
 >
 > The 05:00 event appears to be MSGMAINT.  I just kicked it off manually and
 > that fixed it.  That was after I tried restarting Synchronet and getting
 > the same (not good) results.
 >
 > I have never had Synchronet mess itself over the time change before.
 > It is with 3.20 that I upgraded to just over a week ago.

The log output from the terminal server would be helpful to know more about
what happened.
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