In the final A47 release if you opt to run global editor and look at
'base type' you'll see the use of Echomail is still present when it
should read 'Networked'
In the final A47 release if you opt to run global editor and look at 'base type' you'll see the use of Echomail is still present when it should read 'Networked'
Fixed in the next build! Thank you!
No prob, and hello and welcome back.
Just wondering if you envisage a new release on the website soon? I've been holding off updating videos etc. as I wondered if something may be coming out towards year end again? No stress if not, but if you could
No prob, and hello and welcome back.
Thanks. I am not 100% back to my old pace yet but I am going to be
making an effort to ramp up on development more.
My original plan for all of 2022 was to release 1.12 on December 17th
for the 25th anniversary of Mystic. Unfortunately as you know I had to step away from my usual pace for a good chunk of this year.
I am pretty disappointed that I missed that date, but I didn't feel comfortable releasing A48 (let alone 1.12) because I am not up to speed with how its been working (or not working) for the community.
I did have some additional plans cooking for the 25th anniversary but
all of it had to be put on the back burner.
If you have been using A48 or have heard any rumblings I would love to hear your thoughts on things.
- New Users are not getting their assigned startup menus
- User Chat Backspacing isn't working
I still want to get A48 out sooner than later, so I just need to get feedback from those in the community using it to see how its holding up compared to A47.
If you have been using A48 or have heard any rumblings I would love to hear your thoughts on things.
Don't burn yourself out... I think I did that and with other family and work pressures this last year have not been as active as I would have liked to be. But when I do have a play in the BBS pond it's nice :)
Better to just let things roll until you are. To be honest I've not used A48 much and stuck to A47. There are some niggles (from memory) and
folks will chime in here no doubt and on othernets to let you know. I don't think too many things are major problems (I think)..
There's always the 26th :)
Let me dig back and if I can surface some stuff I'll post it here, but as mentioned others will/can chime in also and will likely be more up to speed than I am at present.
What I can let you know is that I've been spending a little bit of time
on the wiki around September and started to update content e.g. adding more recent MUTIL functions etc. You're arrival has spurred me into
action again today ;)
There's a bunch of stuff I could protectively work on re content changes in naming conventions if you felt A48 may come out in the coming weeks e.g. whitelist.txt changes to allowlist.txt etc. I just wasn't sure
when to press ahead with that stuff.
Lastly, if I want to contact you privately is the mystic Gmail still the best way to go?
Happy New Year from over here, it's 2.26pm on 31/12/22 so I'm almost at burbon and coke stage now.. heh
well. The semaphore issue also was happening quite a bit when I had my call out time scheduled for the top of the hour at the same time most of my hubs were calling into me. At first I took to just running an event
In the final A47 release if you opt to run global editor and look at 'base type' you'll see the use of Echomail is still present when it should read 'Networked'
Fixed in the next build! Thank you!
If you have been using A48 or have heard any rumblings I would love to hear your thoughts on things.
If you have been using A48 or have heard any rumblings I would love t hear your thoughts on things.
Its been pretty smooth, after your last round of bug fixes before the break - theres been no HUGE issues that I've experienced.
If you have been using A48 or have heard any rumblings I would love to hear your thoughts on things.
Lastly, if I want to contact you privately is the mystic Gmail
still the best way to go?
Normally I would say yes, but at some point my e-mail stopped syncing
and I didn't notice it until today. I just assumed I wasn't getting e-mail because I hadn't been active. There could be a lot of e-mail sitting in there that I have not seen yet.
I would say for now Netmail works. I never stopped checking my
netmail while I was gone, although it was usually once every other
week or so.
I did see some stuff about chat and I did fix up some chat bugs (specifically related to the user to user split screen chat). I just hadn't had a chance to release the newer build.
For the assigned startup menu if you can test it with the latest A48 and let me know I would appreciate it. I may have already fixed it and forgot. Or if you can explain how I can reproduce it I'll see if I can get it to happen here and get it sorted out right away.
Download Batch Queue ERROR
An error occurred while processing your file download request.
Reason: File not in queue
I've tried to netmail you a couple times but always get a connection
timed out on mysticbbs.pwnz.org port 24554. Please poll me at
1:320/219.
So this still is broken. Basically, sign in as a new user and once the user is validated to the new security level with a different menu assigned, the menu never gets assigned. So once the user tries to login again he will get a 'Error loading .mnu'
When checking the user, the Start Menu is empty.
A48 seems to be working fine here, except that I still cannot get the Download via WEB (dlreq) functionality to work -- I always get "File not in queue" when clicking on a file to download it:
Download via WEB (dlreq) functionality to work -- I always get "File in queue" when clicking on a file to download it:
Turns out I completely broke it at some point. I've fixed it up and I will put up a new build in just a few minutes to the prealpha folder.
1) Check logs to see what it says when it can't load the menu.
2) Check system config > start menu and confirm the value is what you
want 3) Check the user's start menu and make sure its actually blank and
not a null 4) Check the user's security level to make sure there is a
1) Check logs to see what it says when it can't load the menu.
2023.01.04 06:37:07 Setting start menu:
2023.01.04 06:37:07 Error loading menu:
2023.01.04 06:37:07 Shutting down
choose to disable the anti-spoofing (IP) check? E.g. for the scenario
when a user uses fTelnet (an fTelnet proxy somewhere in the world) and then wants to download the file via his/her web browser (another IP)?
A configuration option for the download URL (e.g. if you have a web
server in front of MIS for HTTPS support with a "real" SSL certificate) would also be a great addition. :)
Can you upgrade to the latest build in prealpha when you have time and check the logs again. I changed it to show where its taking the menu value from which should help me get to the bottom of the issue.
2023.01.04 13:33:16 Setting time left to 60
2023.01.04 13:33:16 Setting menu to "" (Security start menu)
2023.01.04 13:33:16 Error loading menu:
You can also just go into the user and do a CTRL+U select the security level and it never changes the start menu for the user.
As far as it not updating the user field when you upgrade the user security level, thats expected behavior. Older versions would copy the start menu from the security into the user record, but now it just pulls the menu name directly from the security record.
The reason for the change is because if you wanted to change the start menu for a security level in the past you'd have to then go into each user's record and update their start menu field. Now you can blank out all of the user's start menu fields and let it pull the menu from the system default or their security profile. You'd only set the start menu directly on the user's record if you really wanted them to have their
own custom start menu.
Hope I was able to explain that in a way that made sense lol.
I was able to find the issue with that logging, thank you! I am
uploading a new build now which will include the fix.
As far as it not updating the user field when you upgrade the user security level, thats expected behavior. Older versions would copy the start menu from the security into the user record, but now it just pulls the menu name directly from the security record.
The reason for the change is because if you wanted to change the start menu for a security level in the past you'd have to then go into each user's record and update their start menu field. Now you can blank out all of the user's start menu fields and let it pull the menu from the system default or their security profile. You'd only set the start menu directly on the user's record if you really wanted them to have their
own custom start menu.
Hope I was able to explain that in a way that made sense lol.
I think I'll put up something in the FAQ about this as it seems to be something that folks may need some further education / awareness on.
Makes perfect sense. There was something else related to this kind of change to. A mass way of updating users security levels? Any way of
doing that. I'm getting of topic, but curious.
It couldn't hurt. It should be somewhere in there thats for sure. FAQ might make sense and then when it comes time to document the start menu fields in System Config, Security editor, user editor, etc it can link back to that FAQ?
I did discuss it in the whatsnew also.
Makes perfect sense. There was something else related to this kind of change to. A mass way of updating users security levels? Any way of doing that. I'm getting of topic, but curious.
There isn't a global user editor for some reason. I don't really
remember why I never made one considering things like Echomail nodes, msg/file bases all have them.
I don't want to work on it before A48 at this point since I'd like to
get this thing released sooner than later, but I think it could be something that I focus on early in A49
Alright don't mean to add more to your list.
I have some other questions, unrelated to this.
I will create a new message.
fTelnet should be responding to a SENDLOC request which allows Mystic to get the non-proxied IP address of the user. This is either not working
or Mystic is accidentally not using that IP for web downloads which is highly possible.
Yes, it seems so. I have enabled the fTelnet SendLocation support (I'm using the https://embed-v2.ftelnet.ca/ fTelnet Embed Wizard), but still see the proxy IP instead of the client IP in the .dlreq data file.
I just pulled the latest 64-bit Linux A48 prealpha, but I'm afraid it doesn't appear to work as it still logs:
------------------- Node 2 (Mystic v1.12 A48 2023/01/05)
2023.01.06 19:43:43 Connect from 81.4.100.99 (81-4-100-99.cloud.ramnode.com) 2023.01.06 19:43:43 Country: Netherlands
I added some logging into the MIS window for the telnet location and its in the latest Linux/Pi builds that I just put up. It does look like I wasn't passing the location IP into Mystic, but there is code there to
get the value.
Lets first make sure that the location part works and then I can move on to getting dlreq sorted out.
Sorry I didn't explain it well. The log you need to look at is the MIS log. It should log that it received a telnet location when the
connection received is logged.
| Sysop: | Coz |
|---|---|
| Location: | Anoka, MN |
| Users: | 2 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 154:58:08 |
| Calls: | 166 |
| Files: | 5,389 |
| Messages: | 223,379 |