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mbbsemu / MBBSEmu

The MajorBBS Emulation Project is an Open Source, Cross-Platform emulator for easily running The MajorBBS & Worldgroup Modules
https://www.mbbsemu.com
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(DIALCHAT) DialChat - Demo expires after cleanup #45

Closed dlightman311 closed 3 years ago

dlightman311 commented 3 years ago

After nightly cleanup runs DialChat blocks entry with a message that the 5 day demo period has expired even though it has ran for less than 24 hours.

enusbaum commented 3 years ago

I suspect this might have been related to the Btrieve Segmented Key issue which impacted GENBB and it pulling in the incorrect record using OBTBTV fixed in PR #106

Please re-test and report back 👍

BlaZZZed1980 commented 3 years ago

I can confirm this is still an active bug, though I'm not sure cleanup is when it happens. Sometimes just taking the server down and bringing it back up will cause this to occur.

BlaZZZed1980 commented 3 years ago

My cleanup ran successfully last night at 3am and did not expire the DialChat Demo. Whenever it does expire, I have to delete all the auto-generated files out of the MBBSEmu directory and allow them to re-create at the next startup. Then DialChat will work again. I can't yet figure out exactly when this is happening.

enusbaum commented 3 years ago

Thanks @BlaZZZed1980 for confirming that cleanup didn't expire. The Demo install date is probably saved in BBSGEN.DAT, which is the generic Btrieve Database. I should probably write some kind of editor for folks to easily modify that information.