BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  htick won't autoce filearleareas
De:       Javier Sturman
Data:     Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:29:30 -0300
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   Hello Jay!

13 Mar 26 10:58, you wrote to me:

 JH> On 13 Mar 2026, Javier Sturman said the following...

 JH> in main config:
 JH> areafixautocreate off
 JH> areafixautocreatefile /home/ubuntu/fido/etc/areas
 JH> filefixAutoCreate off
 JH> filefixAutoCreateFile /home/ubuntu/fido/etc/fileareas

I changed mine to mirror yours.

areafixautocreate off
areafixautocreatefile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/areas.auto
filefixautocreate off
filefixautocreatefile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/fileareas.auto

 JH> For a particular link:
 JH> areafixautocreate on
 JH> areafixautocreatedefaults -g C -a 618:400/1
 JH> filefixAutoCreate on
 JH> filefixAutoCreateDefaults -g C -a 618:400/1

Nixnet link:

Link NIXNET
AKA 86:700/1
ouraka 86:700/10
password 12345678
pktpwd 12345678
allowemptypktpwd on
echomailflavour crash
autoareacreatesubdirs on
#autoCreateFile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/areas.auto
AutoFileCreateSubdirs on
FilefixautoCreate on
FilefixAutoCreateDefaults -a 86:700/10 -p 90 -g nixnet 86:700/1
areafixAutoCreateDefaults -a 86:700/10 -b Jam -p 3650 -dupeCheck move -dupeHistory 14 -g nixnet
linkMsgBaseDir /var/spool/ftn/msgbase/nixnet
LinkFileBaseDir /var/spool/ftn/filebase/nixnet
filebox /var/spool/ftn/fileboxes/nixnet
forwardRequests on
Packer zip
LinkGrp nixnet
AccessGrp nixnet


Results:

fileareas.auto still empty and NIXLIST still in inbound directory.

----------  Fri 13 Mar 26, htick/fbsd 1.9.0-cur 2020-11-09
1 12:34:50  Start
7 12:34:50  Checking tmp dir
7 12:34:50  Processing Tic-File /var/spool/ftn/inb/AD3B2704.sec
7 12:34:50  File "NIXLIST.Z72": size: 4197, area: NIX_LIST, from: 86:70/0, orig: 86:86/1
1 12:34:50  End


fido:~/fidoconfig$ date; htick toss -b -c ~/fidoconfig/config
Fri Mar 13 12:34:50 -03 2026
fido:~/fidoconfig$ ls -al /var/spool/ftn/inb
total 72
drwxrwx---   3 fido fido    7 Mar 13 12:10 .
drwxrwx---  17 fido fido   17 Mar 13 12:00 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido  625 Mar 13 04:22 AD3B2704.sec
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4163 Mar  6 06:41 NIXLIST.Z65
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4197 Mar 13 04:17 NIXLIST.Z72
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4197 Mar 13 04:33 NIXLIST.Z72.1
drwxr-xr-x   2 fido fido    2 Mar 13 02:00 unsecure
fido:~/fidoconfig$ ls -alb ~/fidoconfig/fileareas.auto
-rw-r--r--  1 fido fido 0 Mar 13 12:27 /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/fileareas.auto



Javier


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