Eric,

Tuesday July 21 2015 09:19, you wrote to me:

 ER> I setup my golded.cfg to be absolute paths pretty much anywhere.

Sounds like that is not your issue then.

 ER> Properly, those files are actually named agora-agn_bbs.* which have
 ER> the actual files. It's missing the group. Then of course once those
 ER> files mentioned above exist, the next time to try to open the message
 ER> base, it claims it's locked. First time it's just an empty list.
 ER> Unless I have AreaScan * on which then it makes a whole horde of those
 ER> sticky-bit files.

AREADEF SYNCHRO.TEST "" 0 Local SMB e:\ged\smb\smb\msgbase . (R/O)

That is example for setup of message area in golded.cfg.  I would pick area you
do not care about to test with or at least backup message base files.  I will
be testing what you are doing in 2-4 weeks when I setup Synchonet on Linux.

 ER>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far I've had better
 ER>>> luck (though still not 100%) with Husky Project's msged, it at
 ER>>> least will let me search nodelists and send a netmail out. :)

 MB>> I use husky with JMB. Both are working here for me.

 ER> What was totally missed is why the nodelist portion of golded just
 ER> completely fails. I provide the NodePath and Nodelist nodelist.999,
 ER> and it can't use them.

Now that I think about it, did you compile the nodelist?

$ gnlnx -C

Take care,

Matt

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