So after fighting with this many ways, I cannot get Mystic to automatically retrieve and process echomail.

I've tried the events in Mystic, having it trigger an hourly event, running mis POLL 21:1/100|mutil mailin.ini. I am telling it to use the ./ Prefix
- Sometimes when I go back into the event
editor later, any changes I've made are reverted back to previous.

I've even tried running it in a cron job to a bash script. No logs are created except for mutil.

It only runs if I use ./mis POLL 21:1/100 via CLI. Then I can
run ./mutil mailin.ini from CLI to process the echomail.

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS in a VM, so not sure what is going on. Has anyone had anything like this happen? Thanks in advance.

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On 26 Feb 2024, Uber-Geek said the following...

So after fighting with this many ways, I cannot get Mystic to automatically retrieve and process echomail.

I've tried the events in Mystic, having it trigger an hourly event, running mis POLL 21:1/100|mutil mailin.ini. I am telling it to use the
./ Prefix - Sometimes when I go back into the event
editor later, any changes I've made are reverted back to previous.

I've even tried running it in a cron job to a bash script. No logs are created except for mutil.

It only runs if I use ./mis POLL 21:1/100 via CLI. Then I can
run ./mutil mailin.ini from CLI to process the echomail.

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS in a VM, so not sure what is going on. Has anyone had anything like this happen? Thanks in advance.

Two things come to mind.

1) I've found that I have to restart MIS after making ANY changes using the event editor for it to show up.

2) If you've got your node set up in the "Echomail Nodes" (under Networking) option, then you should be able to just enter an hourly event. Under "Shell", I use "mis poll forced" and that polls all of my nodes.

Maybe one of the two will give you some help. Let us know!

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1) I've found that I have to restart MIS after making ANY changes using the event editor for it to show up.

Sound advice, I've added restarting to my process.

event. Under "Shell", I use "mis poll forced" and that polls all of my

I switched it to forced rather than specifying the node, so we'll see how that goes.

Thanks for the advice, it put me down a different avenue, at least.

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:16:42 -0500, Uber-Geek -> Ogg wrote:

I switched it to forced rather than specifying the node, so we'll see
how that goes.

If you have multiple networks (and possibly including multiple networks via
the same uplink, you may not want to use 'forced'.

However, if you're not using an environment variable, you may want to try specifying the full path on those command lines, ie:

/path/to/mystic/mis poll 21:1/100|/path/to/mystic/mutil mailin.ini

Regards,
Nick

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However, if you're not using an environment variable, you may want to try specifying the full path on those command lines, ie:

Also good to know. So far it seems setting it to forced is helping for fsxNet. The other net I currently have is another story, but I think that has something to do with communication to the uplink in general. At least it's processing something now!

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On 26 Feb 2024 at 11:38p, Uber-Geek pondered and said...

So after fighting with this many ways, I cannot get Mystic to automatically retrieve and process echomail.

this is should work, so let's see if we can suss the issue for you.

I've tried the events in Mystic, having it trigger an hourly event, running mis POLL 21:1/100|mutil mailin.ini. I am telling it to use the
./ Prefix - Sometimes when I go back into the event
editor later, any changes I've made are reverted back to previous.

always make changes with MIS shutdown first, as you can loose them and they won't stick at times otherwise.

I'd suggest an interval style poll, and set hour to 0 and minutes to something like 15

I've even tried running it in a cron job to a bash script. No logs are created except for mutil.

Nah, we want to get the events system running for you, and avoid cron for this stuff.

It only runs if I use ./mis POLL 21:1/100 via CLI. Then I can
run ./mutil mailin.ini from CLI to process the echomail.

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS in a VM, so not sure what is going on. Has anyone had anything like this happen? Thanks in advance.

if you can share some level 3 logs of what is happening (or not) when your events system runs that would be good to see.

feel free to email me some screen grabs to avon@bbs.nz or if you want / happy to do so, I could remote in to your system / login with temp sysop access to check over your setup.

We'll get you sorted :)

Best, Paul

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On 26 Feb 2024 at 11:17p, ogg pondered and said...

2) If you've got your node set up in the "Echomail Nodes" (under Networking) option, then you should be able to just enter an hourly
event. Under "Shell", I use "mis poll forced" and that polls all of my nodes.

This forces a poll to all active echonodes each time even if no traffic is waiting to be sent to them. To be honest it's not a method I use.

I've got my events setup to poll echomail node hubs specifically (which is just a choice thing) e.g. mis poll 21:1/100 | mis poll 3:770/1

Another option is to define certain key echomail nodes (the HUBs you want to poll each time to check for packets etc.) as 'uplinks' in their individual echomail node setup... then in the events system run a sell line such as 'mis poll uplink binkp' for example and all of those systems are polled in one each move.

:)

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On 27 Feb 2024 at 05:16p, Accession pondered and said...

However, if you're not using an environment variable, you may want to try specifying the full path on those command lines, ie:

/path/to/mystic/mis poll 21:1/100|/path/to/mystic/mutil mailin.ini

I don't I use an environment var but in the past I use a ./

e.g. ./mis poll 21:1/100

I noticed g00r00 a while back added a switch in each Event setup such that you could remove that ./ from the shell line and turn the switch on to get Mystic to add it instead for Linux style OS

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On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 00:02:26 +1300, Avon -> Accession wrote:

However, if you're not using an environment variable, you may want to try
specifying the full path on those command lines, ie:

/path/to/mystic/mis poll 21:1/100|/path/to/mystic/mutil mailin.ini

I don't I use an environment var but in the past I use a ./

e.g. ./mis poll 21:1/100

I noticed g00r00 a while back added a switch in each Event setup such
that you could remove that ./ from the shell line and turn the switch on
to get Mystic to add it instead for Linux style OS

I believe the original poster of the question was already using ./, so I figured it was worth the mention to try to use the full path to the
programs.

Regards,
Nick

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On 01 Mar 2024 at 07:34p, Accession pondered and said...

I believe the original poster of the question was already using ./, so I figured it was worth the mention to try to use the full path to the programs.

Yep, good call.. :)

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