Hello Stas!

07 Oct 2011 20:00, Stas Degteff wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> when fileareas are passthrough it fails to track new fileareas
 BP>> anouncement :(

 SD> htick can't post message into passthrough echo area. Generate 
 SD> announce to text file and post this file usong txt2pkt (for example).

am already do this so:

   ----- dohtick begins -----
#!/bin/sh
#
touch /home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/annfecho.txt
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/htick toss annfecho
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/annfecho.txt filelist
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.txt
# make archive
/usr/bin/lha a /home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.lha
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.txt
# rm /home/ftp/pub/filelist/filelist.bak
/usr/bin/zip -9 /home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.zip
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.txt
/opt/bin/rar a -std -inul /home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.rar
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/filelist.txt
# update file request database
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/mkdbase.pl > /home/xpoint/fido/log/mkdbase.log
2> /home/xpoint/fido/log/mkdbase.err

   ----- dohtick ends -----

   ----- dopost begins -----
#!/bin/sh
#
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/hpt post -nf "Sysop" -af 2:230/53.0 -nt
"All" -at 2:230/53.0 -s "new fileareas at xpoint" -e
"xpoint_info" -z "yes" -o "Enough" -f loc -d
/home/ftp/pub/FILELIST/annfecho.txt
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/hpt qrep
# now announce
/home/xpoint/fido/bin/htick announce

   ----- dopost ends -----

ups, its my touch line that makes empty annfecho.txt file with is posted ?

it helps to remind one to see ones own scripting sometimes :)


 Regards Benny

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