Though you might not have changed it, the nodelist function of mutil isn't working in A36 or A37. I ran a test this morning: I made a nodelist with
A35 and tried to make one with A37. A35 made it, A37 didn't using the same nodelist.ini and source same files (fsx_node & rtn_nodelist). There is something that's gone wrong. I tried A36 last night and got no file as well, so it's been an issue for a while now. The thing was it makes no file so it keeps the old list in place.
The mystic.dat & users.dat have been updated so you can't just use the old mutil from A35 to make nodelists ;( You need an old mystic.dat and users.dat. It so happened that on one of my test setups I kept the old A35 setup as
/omystic and so could test with it. That implies the problem is before the upgrade did it's work (as A36 didn't work). Variable names, tempdir?
Something we wouldn't expect anyway.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Workpoint (21:1/145.3)

Though you might not have changed it, the nodelist function of mutil
isn't working in A36 or A37. I ran a test this morning: I made a
nodelist with A35 and tried to make one with A37. A35 made it, A37
didn't using the same nodelist.ini and source same files (fsx_node &

The way nodelists are compiled has changed to be case insensitive in Unix with both archive names and the nodelist name.

You have a few configuration issues in your .ini file that I pointed out in a previous message that you probably have not seen yet! Please make those necessary changes in your .ini and then update to the latest version of the pre-alpha for Linux. I think you'll find that it works better than ever. :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (21:1/108)

On 12/15/17, bcw142 said the following...

Though you might not have changed it, the nodelist function of mutil
isn't working in A36 or A37. I ran a test this morning: I made a

I'm on A36 here and mutil is merging nodelists just fine for me. I just merged in retronet this morning and can confirm zone 80 is searchable in the browser.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 2017/12/03 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140)

On 12/15/17, g00r00 said the following...

The way nodelists are compiled has changed to be case insensitive in
Unix with both archive names and the nodelist name.

To test this, I went the case insensitive route as well after noticing that
my fsxnet nodelist wasn't compiling with matching case.

Necessary information from nodelist.ini:

MergeNodelists = true
(everything else false)

[MergeNodelists]

strip_down = true
strip_private = false
nodefile=/home/axisd/mystic/nodelist/fsxnet

mutil logs:

----- MUTIL v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 Fri, Dec 15 2017 (loglevel 3)
Startup using nodelist.ini
EXEC MergeNodelists
Process: Merging Nodelists
Merging fsxnet
Searching "/home/axisd/mystic/nodelist/* for archive "FSXNET"
Searching "/home/axisd/mystic/nodelist/* for nodelist "FSXNET"
Searching "/home/axisd/mystic/temputil/* for nodelist "FSXNET"
Results: Merged 1 of 1 nodelist(s) in 0.00s
Shutdown normal (0)

ls -al on nodelist.txt:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 axisd axisd 13917 Dec 3 10:11 nodelist.txt

Seems to not be working properly.

The last time it compiled successfully I was using v1.12 A36 2017/12/01, and even with loglevel 2 it shows:

Merging FSXNET
Extracting FSXNET.Z35
Merging /home/axisd/mystic/temputil/FSXNET.335
Merging nodelist
Results: Merged 1 of 1 nodelist(s) in 0.01s
Shutdown Normal (0)

zip and unzip are still installed, but it doesn't seem to be doing the extracting part yet still shuts down normally.

Regards,
Nick

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
* Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/200)

To test this, I went the case insensitive route as well after noticing that my fsxnet nodelist wasn't compiling with matching case.

You're not using the latest version where this actually works. :)

Download the latest one I put up this morning and you should be good to go.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/15 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (21:1/108)

On 12/15/17, g00r00 pondered and said...

You're not using the latest version where this actually works. :)
Download the latest one I put up this morning and you should be good to

Confirmed now working in the build as per my tear line for Win 32bit

Logs as follows

[snip]

----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A37 2017/12/15 Sat, Dec 16 2017 (loglevel 3)
+ Dec 16 13:36:03 Startup using nodes.ini
- Dec 16 13:36:03 EXEC MergeNodeLists
+ Dec 16 13:36:03 Process: Merging Nodelists
+ Dec 16 13:36:03 Merging agoranet
+ Dec 16 13:36:03 Searching "c:\bbs\files\agn\agn_node\* for archive "AGORANET"
+ Dec 16 13:36:03 Extracting AGORANET.Z00
! Dec 16 13:36:03 unzip -oqqjC c:\bbs\files\agn\agn_node\AGORANET.Z00 * -d c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Found "AGORANET.Z97"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Found "AGORANET.Z99"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Searching "c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "AGORANET" + Dec 16 13:36:05 Found "agoranet.001"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Compare agoranet.001 2016 / 1980
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Found "agoranet.006"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Compare agoranet.006 2017 / agoranet.001 2016
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Result 1
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Found "agoranet.342"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Compare agoranet.342 2017 / agoranet.335 2017
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Merging c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\agoranet.342
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Merging nodelist
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Searching "c:\bbs\files\fdn\fdn_nodelist\* for archive "NODELIST"
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Extracting NODELIST.Z00
! Dec 16 13:36:05 unzip -oqqjC c:\bbs\files\fdn\fdn_nodelist\NODELIST.Z00 *
-d c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:05 Extracting NODELIST.Z01
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Found "NODELIST.Z97"
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Found "NODELIST.Z98"
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Found "NODELIST.Z99"
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Searching "c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "NODELIST" + Dec 16 13:36:09 Found "nodelist.001"
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Compare nodelist.001 2016 / 1980
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Found "nodelist.006"
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Compare nodelist.006 2017 / nodelist.001 2016
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Result 1
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Result 2
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Compare nodelist.001 2016 / nodelist.349 2017
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Result 2
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Merging c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\nodelist.349
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Merging amylist
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Searching "c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\* for archive "AMYLIST" + Dec 16 13:36:09 Extracting AMYLIST.L00
! Dec 16 13:36:09 lha e c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\AMYLIST.L00 /w+ c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:09 Extracting AMYLIST.L01
[snip]
! Dec 16 13:36:12 lha e c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\AMYLIST.L97 /w+ c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Extracting AMYLIST.L98
! Dec 16 13:36:12 lha e c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\AMYLIST.L98 /w+ c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Extracting AMYLIST.L99
! Dec 16 13:36:12 lha e c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\AMYLIST.L99 /w+ c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\files\amn\amylist\* for nodelist
"AMYLIST"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L00"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L01"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L02"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L03"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L04"
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L96"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L97"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L98"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.L99"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "AMYLIST"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.001"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare AMYLIST.001 2015 / 1980
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.006"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare AMYLIST.006 2017 / AMYLIST.001 2015
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 1
[snip]
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.352"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare AMYLIST.352 2015 / AMYLIST.349 2017
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 2
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "AMYLIST.359"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare AMYLIST.359 2015 / AMYLIST.349 2017
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 2
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Merging c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\AMYLIST.349
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Merging sportnet
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\files\sprt\spornode\* for archive "SPORTNET"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Extracting SPORTNET.Z49
! Dec 16 13:36:12 unzip -oqqjC c:\bbs\files\sprt\spornode\SPORTNET.Z49 * -d c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\files\sprt\spornode\* for nodelist "SPORTNET"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "SPORTNET.TXT"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "SPORTNET.Z49"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "SPORTNET" + Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "sportnet.349"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare sportnet.349 2017 / 1980
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Merging c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\sportnet.349
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Merging fsxnet
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\files\fsx\fsx_node\* for archive "FSXNET" + Dec 16 13:36:12 Extracting FSXNET.Z49
! Dec 16 13:36:12 unzip -oqqjC c:\bbs\files\fsx\fsx_node\FSXNET.Z49 * -d c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\files\fsx\fsx_node\* for nodelist
"FSXNET"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "FSXNET.Z49"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Searching "c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "FSXNET"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Found "FSXNET.349"
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Compare FSXNET.349 2017 / 1980
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Result 1
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Merging c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\FSXNET.349
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Results: Merged 5 of 5 nodelist(s) in 9.53s
+ Dec 16 13:36:12 Shutdown Normal (0)

[snip]

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/15 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 12/15/17, g00r00 said the following...

You're not using the latest version where this actually works. :)

Well, that would explain things. I guess I was just verifying that before
this latest version things were not working. ;)

Download the latest one I put up this morning and you should be good to go.

Will do! I wish there was a way to get alerts when an update is available
like sourceforge does! lol

Regards,
Nick

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
* Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/200)

On 12/15/17, g00r00 said the following...

You're not using the latest version where this actually works. :)

Download the latest one I put up this morning and you should be good to go.

For the record, all is better now. ;)

Regards,
Nick

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/15 (Linux/64)
* Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/200)

On 12/15/17, g00r00 said the following...

The way nodelists are compiled has changed to be case insensitive in
Unix with both archive names and the nodelist name.

You have a few configuration issues in your .ini file that I pointed out in a previous message that you probably have not seen yet! Please make those necessary changes in your .ini and then update to the latest
version of the pre-alpha for Linux. I think you'll find that it works better than ever. :)

I didn't know you'd fixed the case issue. I changed the nodelist.ini: bcw@lenotv2:/mystic$ cat nodelist.ini
; nodelist.ini for Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org
; from omutil.ini (Original mutil.ini)
;
; Purge, pack & merge nodelists
;
[General]

MergeNodeLists = true
logfile=mutil.log
loglevel = 3
maxlogfiles = 3
maxlogsize = 1000

; ==========================================================================
; ==========================================================================

[MergeNodeLists]


; Strip nodes marked as DOWN?
strip_down = true

; Strip nodes marked as PRIVATE?
strip_private = false

nodefile=/mystic/files/fsx_info/fsx_node
nodefile=/mystic/files/rtn_nodelist/retronet


----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 Sat, Dec 16 2017 (loglevel 3)
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Startup using nodelist.ini
- Dec 16 20:22:05 EXEC MergeNodeLists
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Process: Merging Nodelists
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Merging fsx_node
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/files/fsx_info/* for archive "FSX_NODE"
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/files/fsx_info/* for nodelist "FSX_NODE" + Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/temputil/* for nodelist "FSX_NODE"
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Merging retronet
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/files/rtn_nodelist/* for archive "RETRONET"
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/files/rtn_nodelist/* for nodelist "RETRONET"
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Searching "/mystic/temputil/* for nodelist "RETRONET"
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Results: Merged 2 of 2 nodelist(s) in 0.00s
+ Dec 16 20:22:05 Shutdown Normal (0)

bcw@lenotv2:/mystic$ ls -la data/n*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bcw bcw 291 Mar 2 2016 data/newletter.txt

bcw@lenotv2:/mystic$ find /mystic -iname nodelist.txt
bcw@lenotv2:/mystic$

So, no nodelist.txt files were created. The whole directory is owned by bcw
as is the /mystic directory and everything under it. I install to /nmystic
and copy the file from there to /mystic ending with:
cp /nmystic/qwkpoll /mystic
cp /nmystic/scripts/mide /mystic/scripts
cp /nmystic/scripts/mplc /mystic/scripts
cd /mystic/scripts
./mplc -all
cd /mystic
sudo ./mis DAEMON
sudo chown -R bcw:bcw /nmystic
sudo chown -R bcw:bcw /mystic

So both directories are always owned by bcw. I guess you fixed the case issue sometime back as A35 works except for the control-c at the end of each
nodelist that's merged. It also fails to do anything if I don't do './mutil nodelist.ini'. For some reason './mutil nodelist' runs nothing. I find the
same results on my Pi that's running A36 2017/12/04:
pi@dmz2:/mystic $ cat /mystic/data/nodelist.txt
cat: /mystic/data/nodelist.txt: No such file or directory

pi owns /mystic and /nmystic there.
pi@dmz2:/mystic $ ls -la /mystic/data
total 336
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Dec 16 20:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 pi pi 4096 Dec 16 20:51 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 3372 Aug 25 16:10 archive.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 5901 Aug 25 16:10 areafixhelp.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 5624 Aug 25 16:10 badcountry.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Aug 25 16:17 callers.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 1817 Aug 25 16:10 cfgroot1.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2227 Aug 25 16:10 cfgroot.ans
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16731 Aug 25 16:17 chatroom.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 52158 Aug 25 16:10 default.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16 Dec 15 17:19 echodupes.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 5406 Dec 15 17:19 echonode.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2472 Dec 2 22:00 event.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 6930 Nov 24 11:07 fbases.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 1763 Aug 25 16:10 filefixhelp.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1380 Dec 14 11:19 fsx_info.des
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 8 Dec 14 11:19 fsx_info.dfx
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 121 Dec 14 11:19 fsx_info.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 27 Dec 14 09:19 fsx_node.des
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 8 Dec 14 09:19 fsx_node.dfx
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 121 Dec 14 09:19 fsx_node.dir
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 201 Nov 24 08:10 groups_f.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 201 Sep 23 10:10 groups_g.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 359 Aug 25 16:10 hackwarn.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 768 Dec 16 20:47 history.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 17920 Nov 25 00:01 mbases.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2549 Nov 24 07:24 mis_events.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2728 Nov 24 07:24 mis_help.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2361 Nov 24 07:24 mis_stats.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2366 Nov 24 07:24 mis_status1.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 2537 Nov 24 07:24 mis_status2.ans
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 555 Aug 25 16:10 newletter.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Nov 24 08:40 new.lnk
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 222 Dec 8 09:20 oneliner.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 1503 Aug 25 16:10 protocol.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Nov 24 21:23 rtn_info.dir
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 40800 Nov 24 09:01 security.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 1024 Dec 8 09:15 servers.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 169 Aug 25 16:10 sysletter.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 52158 Sep 10 11:48 test.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 576 Aug 25 16:10 theme.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1536 Dec 16 20:47 users.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Aug 25 16:13 votes.dat
pi@dmz2:/mystic $

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/13 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Mystic AlphaTest bcw142.zapto.org:2323 (21:1/145.2)

So, no nodelist.txt files were created. The whole directory is owned by

You need to have the latest version which I think was 12/15 at the time. In 12/13 I think I was in the middle of redoing the nodelist code so nothing works.

If you upgrade and fix up your config I think you'll find it works! :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/17 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (21:1/108)

On 12/15/17, Static said the following...

On 12/15/17, bcw142 said the following...

Though you might not have changed it, the nodelist function of mutil isn't working in A36 or A37. I ran a test this morning: I made a

I'm on A36 here and mutil is merging nodelists just fine for me. I just merged in retronet this morning and can confirm zone 80 is searchable in the browser.

It is working now for me as well with 12/16/2017 version. The A36 & early A37 pre-alphas didn't compile it, they did leave the old one in place so things worked. You only noticed an issue if you deleted the old one, it was leaving
it untouched. If zone 80 wasn't new to you, you didn't see the issue even
when it was there. You had to look for new nodes to see a problem.
Anyway the 'problem' is fixed and working now.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A37 2017/12/16 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Workpoint (21:1/145.3)

On 12/19/17, bcw142 said the following...

one, it was leaving it untouched. If zone 80 wasn't new to you, you
didn't see the issue even when it was there. You had to look for new

Zone 80 was new to me, and the file had a creation time within the same
minute mutil was executed. As I understand it now the problem was with mis- matched case inside archives in a case-sensitive environment, which would explain why it worked for me. The nodelists I was using were unzipped. Whereas if it pulled "NODELIST.349" out of "nodelist.z49" and then tried to look for "nodelist.349" it would fail.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 2017/12/03 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140)