Hello All!

I am trying to track down an error from a downlink... How would I copy pkts before process? Is in the main-in script I use or ? I believe it has to be when binkd receives and before hpt tosses?

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

19 Sep 24 09:51, you wrote to all:

Hello All!

I am trying to track down an error from a downlink... How would I copy pkts before process? Is in the main-in script I use or ? I believe it
has to be when binkd receives and before hpt tosses?

I got my binkd to copy anything that it receives before it gets tossed. In the binkd config i added:

===
# Run an external program.
# The "!" before program pathname means immediate program execution
# after receiving the file.
# ***
# Macros: *F - complete name of received file,
# *H - remote hostname or IP,
#
exec "/path/to/archiver.sh *F *H" *
===

and the archiver.sh script is
===
#!/bin/bash

Y=`date '+%Y'`
W=`date '+%V'`
B=`basename $1`
L=/path/to/archive/$Y/$W
mkdir -p $L
cp -vf $1 $L/$2_$B
===

This gives me an archive folder per year and in there per week of the incoming packets prefixed with the hostname where they came from.

enjoy,
Floris


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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:27:58 +0200
"Floris van Unen" (2:280/2050) <Floris.van.Unen@f2050.n280.z2.fidonet>
wrote:

Hello Rick!

19 Sep 24 09:51, you wrote to all:

Hello All!

I am trying to track down an error from a downlink... How would
I copy pkts before process? Is in the main-in script I use or ?
I believe it has to be when binkd receives and before hpt
tosses?

I got my binkd to copy anything that it receives before it gets
tossed. In the binkd config i added:

===
# Run an external program.
# The "!" before program pathname means immediate program execution
# after receiving the file.
# ***
# Macros: *F - complete name of received file,
# *H - remote hostname or IP,
#
exec "/path/to/archiver.sh *F *H" *
===

and the archiver.sh script is
===
#!/bin/bash

Y=`date '+%Y'`
W=`date '+%V'`
B=`basename $1`
L=/path/to/archive/$Y/$W
mkdir -p $L
cp -vf $1 $L/$2_$B
===

This gives me an archive folder per year and in there per week of the incoming packets prefixed with the hostname where they came from.

enjoy,
Floris

Nice script. it's a shame someone didn't do something like that the day
fidonet started. It would be a great archive to have.
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On 19 Sep 2024, Floris van Unen said the following...

and the archiver.sh script is
===
#!/bin/bash

Y=`date '+%Y'`
W=`date '+%V'`
B=`basename $1`
L=/path/to/archive/$Y/$W
mkdir -p $L
cp -vf $1 $L/$2_$B
===

Thanks for this.

This worked well for my IPv4 nodes but not for the IPv6 ones. I made a modification that uses their first AKA instead:

In binkd.conf:
exec "!/path/to/archiver.sh *F *A0" *

===
#!/bin/bash
Y=`date '+%Y'`
W=`date '+%V'`
B=`basename $1`
L=/path/to/archive/$Y/$W
N=`echo $2 | tr ":/@." "----"`

mkdir -p $L
cp -vf $1 $L/$N\_$B
===

This will name the files like this:
1-229-426-fidonet_41801563.PKT
21-3-0-fsxnet_0008a828.pkt
618-618-1-micronet_00DA0000.TH6


Jay

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On 19 Sep 2024, Jay Harris said the following...

This worked well for my IPv4 nodes but not for the IPv6 ones. I made a modification that uses their first AKA instead:

In binkd.conf:
exec "!/path/to/archiver.sh *F *A0" *

===
#!/bin/bash
Y=`date '+%Y'`
W=`date '+%V'`
B=`basename $1`
L=/path/to/archive/$Y/$W
N=`echo $2 | tr ":/@." "----"`

mkdir -p $L
cp -vf $1 $L/$N\_$B
===

And if you'd like to automatically clean up these files, you can add this to your daily or weekly maintenance:

# Delete all files older than 30 days
find /path/to/archive/ -type f -mtime +30 -execdir rm -- '{}' \;

# Remove all empty directories
find /path/to/archive/ -empty -type d -delete


Jay

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