• ELIST Expiration WARNing #1

    From Elistmaint@2:25/21 to Vincent Coen on Sat Apr 1 23:30:02 2023
    To: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1


    WARNing 1 of 1: This Echo is expiring, please Update.

    TAGname: ELIST Group: FIDO

    TITLe: EList v5 MaintBot Announcements

    Language: ENGLISH

    DESCription:
    FIDONet Backbone Elist v5 MaintBot Announcements

    MODerator: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1

    ORIGIN: 2:250/1

    RESTrictions: /REAL

    DISTribution: FIDONet Backbone

    GATEway: PPR

    From: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1

    Updated on: 2022/05/03 and valid till 2023/03/31

    WARNING CNT 1

    Produced by Elist v5.4.020

    -=:{ End of Report }:=-


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  • From Nigel Reed@nospam@nospam.com to Elistmaint on Sun Apr 2 04:00:52 2023
    On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 23:30:02 +0100
    "Elistmaint" <elistmaint@2:25/21> wrote:

    To: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1


    WARNing 1 of 1: This Echo is expiring, please Update.

    TAGname: ELIST Group: FIDO

    TITLe: EList v5 MaintBot Announcements

    Language: ENGLISH

    DESCription:
    FIDONet Backbone Elist v5 MaintBot Announcements

    MODerator: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1

    ORIGIN: 2:250/1

    RESTrictions: /REAL

    DISTribution: FIDONet Backbone

    GATEway: PPR

    From: Vincent Coen, 2:250/1

    Updated on: 2022/05/03 and valid till 2023/03/31

    WARNING CNT 1

    The irony.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Nigel Reed on Sun Apr 2 16:38:08 2023
    Hello Nigel!

    Sunday April 02 2023 04:00, you wrote to Elistmaint:


    WARNING CNT 1

    The irony.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23


    Hardly, 'my' system sends auto updates to 2:25/21 every 12 months and the next due one is for 1st May.

    Such a period is easy to configure for the crontab scheduler where as every 10 months is not.

    Vincent

    --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8.3/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)
  • From Nigel Reed@nospam@nospam.com to All on Mon Apr 3 11:20:17 2023
    On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:38:08 +0100
    "Vincent Coen" <vincent.coen@2:250/1> wrote:

    Hello Nigel!

    Sunday April 02 2023 04:00, you wrote to Elistmaint:


    WARNING CNT 1

    The irony.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23


    Hardly, 'my' system sends auto updates to 2:25/21 every 12 months and
    the next due one is for 1st May.

    Such a period is easy to configure for the crontab scheduler where as
    every 10 months is not.

    Easily mitigated. Just run a cronjob each month to call a script
    that'll check an incremental file. When it reaches 10 complete the
    script and reset to 1 otherwise increment.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to Nigel Reed on Tue Apr 4 08:07:56 2023
    Hello Nigel,

    03 Apr 23 11:20, you wrote to All:

    On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:38:08 +0100
    "Vincent Coen" <vincent.coen@2:250/1> wrote:

    Hello Nigel!

    Sunday April 02 2023 04:00, you wrote to Elistmaint:


    WARNING CNT 1

    The irony.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23


    Hardly, 'my' system sends auto updates to 2:25/21 every 12 months
    and the next due one is for 1st May.

    Such a period is easy to configure for the crontab scheduler where
    as every 10 months is not.

    Easily mitigated. Just run a cronjob each month to call a script
    that'll check an incremental file. When it reaches 10 complete the
    script and reset to 1 otherwise increment.

    or send in every month, it does not matter anyways

    Regards,
    --
    dp

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Daniel Path on Tue Apr 4 13:55:13 2023
    Hello Daniel!

    Tuesday April 04 2023 08:07, you wrote to Nigel Reed:

    Hello Nigel,

    03 Apr 23 11:20, you wrote to All:

    On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:38:08 +0100
    "Vincent Coen" <vincent.coen@2:250/1> wrote:

    Hello Nigel!

    Sunday April 02 2023 04:00, you wrote to Elistmaint:


    WARNING CNT 1

    The irony.
    --
    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23


    Hardly, 'my' system sends auto updates to 2:25/21 every 12 months
    and the next due one is for 1st May.

    Such a period is easy to configure for the crontab scheduler where
    as every 10 months is not.

    Easily mitigated. Just run a cronjob each month to call a script
    that'll check an incremental file. When it reaches 10 complete
    the script and reset to 1 otherwise increment.

    or send in every month, it does not matter anyways

    Submissions are valid for 10 months with 2 extras, 1 for std warning and 1 for deletion warning and the delete/transfer process to BACKBONE only is another month.

    So 12 months works.

    Running a cron task that what access to a file some where is a bit of a security risk as it runs as root - not going to happen.

    Vincent

    --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8.3/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Vincent Coen on Tue Apr 4 15:08:09 2023
    Hi Vincent,

    On 2023-04-04 13:55:13, you wrote to Daniel Path:

    Submissions are valid for 10 months with 2 extras, 1 for std warning
    and 1 for deletion warning and the delete/transfer process to BACKBONE only is another month.

    So 12 months works.

    Running a cron task that what access to a file some where is a bit of a security risk as it runs as root - not going to happen.

    If you want to get rid of the warnings just run it twice a year. That can be easily configured in cron with */6 in the month field. Or if you want to run it in specific months you could for instance specify 4,10 to run it in april and october.

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.2.0.0
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Apr 5 01:27:37 2023
    Hello Wilfred!

    Tuesday April 04 2023 15:08, you wrote to me:

    Hi Vincent,

    On 2023-04-04 13:55:13, you wrote to Daniel Path:

    Submissions are valid for 10 months with 2 extras, 1 for std
    warning and 1 for deletion warning and the delete/transfer
    process to BACKBONE only is another month.

    So 12 months works.

    Running a cron task that what access to a file some where is a
    bit of a security risk as it runs as root - not going to happen.

    If you want to get rid of the warnings just run it twice a year. That
    can be easily configured in cron with */6 in the month field. Or if
    you want to run it in specific months you could for instance specify
    4,10 to run it in april and october.

    Yes, that would be the better solution although it would be nice if there was more control of cron jobs but I am being very MVS picky,



    Vincent

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    * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)