For the second time now in a few months, BinkD 1.1a-95 just randomly terminates with no error message, nothing in the log, no indication of any problem whatsoever, after a good month or so of uptime.

C:\DB>binkdwin -vv
Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)
Compilation flags: mingw32, zlib, perldl, https, ntlm, amiga_4d_outbound, bwlim,
ipv6.
Facilities: fts5004 ipv6

Nick

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Hello Nick!

I cannot share your experience, as my systems all run on linux.
There are however some sidenotes I would like to make.

The problem you encounter could be caused by a memory leak and thus may
depend on the ammount of available memory. A regular restart could
circumvent a unsuspected shutdown and as a consequence demonstrate that
there is indeed a memory leak.

Why does this happen to ypu and apparently not to others. I have been
experimenting with DBridge for some time and I was surprised at the way you
trigger DBdrige for outgoing mail.

Under common circumstances binkd scans the outgoing directory every minit,
and initiates transfers for outgoing mail.
To me it looks like you also refresh the config files, or its timestamp,
to initiate a mail scan.

There should be no harm in what you are doing, but on my system .e.g. the
configfile timestamp is only triggerd, when I change a config parameter and
once a day when a new nodelist is generated.

So in general you may be refreshing the configfile more often as others.

I hope that my suggestions can help to mitigate your problem and also help
to pinpoint the cause of your problem.

16 Jun 18 18:33, you wrote to All:

For the second time now in a few months, BinkD 1.1a-95 just randomly terminates with no error message, nothing in the log, no indication of any problem whatsoever, after a good month or so of uptime.

C:\DB>> binkdwin -vv

Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)
Compilation flags: mingw32, zlib, perldl, https, ntlm, amiga_4d_outbound, bwlim,
ipv6.
Facilities: fts5004 ipv6

Nick

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17 Jun 18 14:49, Kees van Eeten wrote to you:

Why does this happen to ypu and apparently not to others. I have been
experimenting with DBridge for some time and I was surprised at the
way you trigger DBdrige for outgoing mail.

Under common circumstances binkd scans the outgoing directory every minit, and initiates transfers for outgoing mail. To me it looks like
you also refresh the config files, or its timestamp, to initiate a
mail scan.

There should be no harm in what you are doing, but on my system .e.g.
the configfile timestamp is only triggerd, when I change a config parameter and once a day when a new nodelist is generated.

So in general you may be refreshing the configfile more often as
others.

I have seen binkd to exit, not crash, in some rare case when config changes. I don't know why.

Have you been running binkd with maximum logging?

'Tommi

--- Binkd 1.1a-99 (May 16 2018 21:09:38/CYGWIN_NT-10.0)
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Hello Nick!

16 Jun 2018 18:33, Nick Andre wrote to All:

Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)

old software, last version is 1.1a-99

imho if there is bugs it very well important to use the last version of bugreports


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Hiya Benny...

Benny Pedersen wrote to Nick Andre on 06-18-18 00:03 <=-

16 Jun 2018 18:33, Nick Andre wrote to All:

Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)

old software, last version is 1.1a-99

imho if there is bugs it very well important to use the last version of bugreports

As per the site download.binkd.org, Nick has the latest version for Win32. Does that not also get updated if there's a new version or hatched on the FTN?



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Hello Bill!

18 Jun 2018 09:53, Bill McGarrity wrote to Benny Pedersen:

As per the site download.binkd.org, Nick has the latest version for Win32. Does that not also get updated if there's a new version or hatched

on the

FTN?

that part is not a maintainer job, if the maintainer do a msdos compile of it, its done

software compiled in 2016 is old, if not possible to go forward updateing it should be possibel to go back to a more bugfree compiled version


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On 18 Jun 18 20:57:10, Benny Pedersen said the following to Bill Mcgarrity:

As per the site download.binkd.org, Nick has the latest version for Win32. Does that not also get updated if there's a new version or hatc

on the

FTN?

that part is not a maintainer job, if the maintainer do a msdos compile of its done

So...... because I run Windows, I'm given the giant middle-finger by the developers given the last binary appears to be 2016?

software compiled in 2016 is old, if not possible to go forward updateing i should be possibel to go back to a more bugfree compiled version

I use software dating back to 1987 for certain operations here. Bug free.

Nick

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18 Jun 18 17:53, Nick Andre wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I use software dating back to 1987 for certain operations here. Bug
free.

My oldest is from 1992. You win!

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18 Jun 18 17:53, Nick Andre wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I use software dating back to 1987 for certain operations here.
Bug free.

My oldest is from 1992. You win!

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Hiya Benny...

Benny Pedersen wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-18-18 20:57 <=-

18 Jun 2018 09:53, Bill McGarrity wrote to Benny Pedersen:

As per the site download.binkd.org, Nick has the latest version for
Win32. Does that not also get updated if there's a new version or hatched

on the

FTN?

that part is not a maintainer job, if the maintainer do a msdos compile
of it, its done

software compiled in 2016 is old, if not possible to go forward
updateing it should be possibel to go back to a more bugfree compiled version

I think my point is if there is an updated version of any flavor, where can one find the latest version, whether it be compiled or just raw code.


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Nick,

Saturday June 16 2018 18:33, you wrote to All:

For the second time now in a few months, BinkD 1.1a-95 just randomly terminates with no error message, nothing in the log, no indication of
any problem whatsoever, after a good month or so of uptime.

C:\DB>> binkdwin -vv

Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)
Compilation flags: mingw32, zlib, perldl, https, ntlm,
amiga_4d_outbound, bwlim, ipv6.
Facilities: fts5004 ipv6

Just a question but do you run it as a service?

If so, how much trouble would it be to run it foreground? I have sometimes found this useful in troubleshooting things in the *nix world (run under screen/foreground).

Once in a land far way I ran binkd under windows but it was much older version.
Just speculating but could windows updates be causing issues?

Take care,

Matt

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On 19 Jun 18 00:24:48, Matt Bedynek said the following to Nick Andre:

C:\DB>> binkdwin -vv

Binkd 1.1a-95 (Dec 10 2016 21:44:31/Win32)
Compilation flags: mingw32, zlib, perldl, https, ntlm, amiga_4d_outbound, bwlim, ipv6.
Facilities: fts5004 ipv6

Just a question but do you run it as a service?

Nope.

Nick

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Hello Nick!

18 Jun 2018 17:53, Nick Andre wrote to Benny Pedersen:

So...... because I run Windows, I'm given the giant middle-finger by
the developers given the last binary appears to be 2016?

no you misunderstand my point

I use software dating back to 1987 for certain operations here. Bug
free.

irelevant for binkd problem

i have a commodore 64 still working, does it help msdos problems ?


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Hello Fred!

18 Jun 2018 18:01, Fred Riccio wrote to Nick Andre:

I use software dating back to 1987 for certain operations here. Bug
free.

My oldest is from 1992. You win!

indeed winners take all the problems :)


Regards Benny

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Hello Bill!

18 Jun 2018 19:16, Bill McGarrity wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I think my point is if there is an updated version of any flavor,
where can one find the latest version, whether it be compiled or just raw

code.

indeed, its should not be hard for Nick to compile latest binkd for dos and test if that fixed the problem or not

i know this is what i am asked on linux if not updated to latest, then one is on our own


Regards Benny

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Hiya Benny..

Benny Pedersen wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-20-18 00:25 <=-

18 Jun 2018 19:16, Bill McGarrity wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I think my point is if there is an updated version of any flavor,
where can one find the latest version, whether it be compiled or just raw

code.

indeed, its should not be hard for Nick to compile latest binkd for dos and test if that fixed the problem or not

i know this is what i am asked on linux if not updated to latest, then
one is on our own

I think you're missing the point. The issue is where does one find the source code to compile it, no matter what spice of OS one is using. As I said, I would normally get any updates via the FTN or on the website I quoted earlier. Latest they have there is dated 2016.


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Hello Bill!

20 Jun 2018 16:51, Bill McGarrity wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I think you're missing the point. The issue is where does one find the source code to compile it, no matter what spice of OS one is using. As I said, I would normally get any updates via the FTN or on the website I

quoted

earlier.
Latest they have there is dated 2016.

----- binkd-1.1.ebuild begins -----
# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# now edited with nano 2.3.2 :)
#
# 2. http://www.corbina.net/~maloff/binkd/
# ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/mailer/binkd/
# The mirrors:
# ftp://fido.thunderdome.us/pub/mirror/binkd/
# ftp://cube.sut.ru/pub/mirror/binkd/
# http://binkd.spb.ru
#
# Documentation:
# English manual for binkd 0.9.2
# http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~nsoveiko/fido/binkd/man/
# (c) Nick Soveiko <nsoveiko@doe.carleton.ca>
# Russian manual for binkd 0.9.9
# http://binkd.grumbler.org/binkd-ug-ru.htm.win.ru
# (c) Stas Degteff 2:5080/102@fidonet
# FAQ
# http://binkd.grumbler.org/binkdfaq.shtml

EAPI=3

inherit eutils

DESCRIPTION="Binkd daemon for ftn over ip" HOMEPAGE="http://www.corbina.net/~maloff/binkd/"
RESTRICT="mirror" SRC_URI="ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/mailer/binkd/snapshot/binkd-1.1.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86 amd64"
IUSE="aso bwlim +bzip2 doc ntlm perl proxy +zlib"
DEPEND="bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6 ) zlib? ( >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 ) perl? ( dev-lang/perl )"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

#S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
S=${WORKDIR}/binkd-1.1

src_configure() {
# we make the configure work
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/Makefile.dep" "${S}"
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/Makefile.in" "${S}"
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/configure" "${S}"
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/configure.in" "${S}"
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/install-sh" "${S}"
cp "${S}/mkfls/unix/mkinstalldirs" "${S}"
# now run configure
local myconf=
use proxy && myconf="--with-proxy"
use ntlm && myconf="${myconf} --with-ntlm"
use aso && myconf="${myconf} --with-aso"
use bwlim && myconf="${myconf} --with-bwlim"
use perl && myconf="${myconf} --with-perl"
# disable zlib if not enabled in use flags
if ! use zlib; then
myconf="${myconf} --without-zlib"
fi
# disable bzip2 if not enabled in use flags
if ! use bzip2; then
myconf="${myconf} --without-bzip2"
fi
econf ${myconf} || die "econf failed"
}

src_compile() {
# compile it
emake || die "emake failed"
}

src_install() {
# install conf.d
newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/binkd.confd binkd
# install init.d
newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/binkd.initd binkd
# make DESTDIR=${D} install || die
dobin binkd
# install docs
doman binkd.8
}
----- binkd-1.1.ebuild ends -----

is what i do in gentoo

Nick see the above SRC_URI


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# 2. http://www.corbina.net/~maloff/binkd/
# ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/mailer/binkd/
# The mirrors:
# ftp://fido.thunderdome.us/pub/mirror/binkd/
# ftp://cube.sut.ru/pub/mirror/binkd/
# http://binkd.spb.ru
#

None of those links work :( any other(s) I can try?


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Hello Ben!

20 Jun 2018 19:44, Ben Ritchey wrote to Benny Pedersen:

None of those links work :( any other(s) I can try?

see the SRC_URI ?

ftp://ftp:ftp@region23.dk/mirrors/happy.kiev.ua/


Regards Benny

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None of those links work :( any other(s) I can try?

see the SRC_URI ?
ftp://ftp:ftp@region23.dk/mirrors/happy.kiev.ua/

Cool, that one works! Thank you kindly :)


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Hello Ben!

20 Jun 2018 22:55, Ben Ritchey wrote to Benny Pedersen:

None of those links work :( any other(s) I can try?

see the SRC_URI ?
ftp://ftp:ftp@region23.dk/mirrors/happy.kiev.ua/

Cool, that one works! Thank you kindly :)

good to know


Regards Benny

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Nick,

Tuesday June 19 2018 08:12, you wrote to me:

Just a question but do you run it as a service?

Nope.

I am no windows expert but another thing you might try is running in compatibility mode (especially if running windows 10).

Try running from a cmd.exe session so you can see what if any messages are printed out before bailing.

Take care,

Matt

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