• Unable to import Fido nodelist

    From KB2MOB@21:1/176 to All on Monday, November 14, 2016 09:34:00
    Hey all...

    I have been looking for a few days and still can't seem to figure out why Mystic is not importing a fidonet nodelist.

    I checked the path for my maint.ini file that merges the nodelists, and when
    I put in the latest nodelist in the directory, it just doesn't see it. It
    skips it. I tried to change ti upper case thinking because the FSXNET one
    comes in that is upper and that didn't work. I changed permissions on the
    file and still nothing.

    So I'm kind of stumped. Anyone have any ideas what I can try?

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  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to KB2MOB on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 20:42:00
    On 11/14/16, KB2MOB said the following...
    I checked the path for my maint.ini file that merges the nodelists, and when I put in the latest nodelist in the directory, it just doesn't see it. It skips it. I tried to change ti upper case thinking because the FSXNET one comes in that is upper and that didn't work. I changed permissions on the file and still nothing.

    I see from a later post that you fixed a typo and found the case issue so
    it's working now. I'll leave the following so you can see what we commonly do for the case issue and to help any others with such issues.

    It takes multiple nodelists so to get around case issues most of us do:

    nodefile=/mystic/files/fsx_node/fsxnet
    nodefile=/mystic/files/fsx_node/FSXNET

    There is a logs/mutil.log which if you set loglevel=3 (just after fuction
    list near the start of the ini file) will tell you more about what is doing
    on. Something like:
    ----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A31 Sat, Aug 27 2016 (loglevel 2)
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Startup using nodelist.ini
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Process: Merging Nodelists
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Merging FSXNET
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Extracting FSXNET.Z46
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Merging /mystic/temputil/FSXNET.246
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Merging retronet
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Merging /Elements/mystic/files/rtn_nodelist/retronet.211
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Results: Merged 2 of 2 nodelist(s) in 0.16s
    + Aug 27 22:39:26 Shutdown Normal (0)

    so even loglevel=2 gives you some data. That's an old merge but shows the log.

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