Re: Help Please

> Hi All!
>      I am a new Sysop and have been fumbling my way through setting this BBS
> up. Old "Higher Ways", The HDD crashed and everything had to be set up again.
> I copied over the net file and it seemed to work but I think there is more to
> do because there are only posts in about 5% of the bases. If anyone would
> like to helpo, I would be greatful.


  There seem to be some problems with the Hierarchy (RC's) being able to send
out updated BBSLISTS.  As a result of two updates ago, EVERY SINGLE message
got rewritten to *LOCAL* necessitating unsubscribing and resubscribing to
every networked message base I carried.
  I never thought I'd be a older hand at this but look at the following.
  The HD CRASH

  1.  Are you running smartdrv or any  disk caching software on boot as a
      TSR-  Visual and Quick Basic  (VBBS and VA) have been seen to
      trash the contents of whole directories ESPECIALLY if you use
      a Promise or other Disc Caching IDE controller card
  2.  Is there any ascii garbage (extra characters) at the end of
        your syspaths.cfg file.  This crashed my HD 3 years ago when a bad
        or bogus bbslist hit on a bad syspaths.cfg and took the userfile.dat
        userfile.idx files to file allocation "data heaven" with it.
  3.  Verify the sizes of the executables, particularly advaux.exe, vnet.exe
      vme.exe and vmb.exe and delete damaged (incorrect size files) and
      replace with the ones from a freshly unzipped copy of VA (same version)
  4.  I presume you run scandisk/chkdsk or defrag to minimize fragmentation.


  The Message Bases:
  1. May need reinstallation at the client and host ends or reinstallation
     at both ends.  Check Vconfig to see if they show as local or "Gated 2"
     or more.  If so either manually correct them or delete database.cfg
     or rename it database.old and start again.

  2. Are you using VMB to subscribe or VAREA (outdated)


  3. Alas, the apathy factor.  I remember 350-1000 posts/net connect in my
     newbie sysop client days on VBBS 6.12 when there were close to 1,400
     of us on the bbslists.  Test messages are usually to see if NET is
     finally tossing successfully.

  4.  Last I checked pkzip 1.10 was required to be the version of pkzip
      in the VA/VBBS \Dir.  verify which version you have.

  If none of the above:
   1.  Pray
   2.  Pull out latest tape backup.
   3.  Look at taglines in VSB (Virtual Support Board group)
       E-mail the Sysop there
> Thanks
> Castle
> P.S. how do you set up the tagline?
> 0
> 0Via: 1847000*1 1614017*1 1410006*1


name of file email.tag
-The Prospect & Upper Ridge Railroad BBS- Catonsville MDVA 1.30              
@1410006 VirtualNET AC  @100 Synergy DM/F 410 747-1611  747-1656              
��� Legion Outpost 1410001 AC ���  <- LeftNet @41004



tagline.1
PURR -The Prospect & Upper Ridge Railroad BBS- Catonsville MD  410 747-1611
@1410006 VirtualNETVA1 @100 Synergy NC IP BRE9.79 DM/F 410 747-1656
 
tagline.2

-The Prospect & Upper Ridge Railroad BBS- Catonsville MDVA 1.30              
@1410006 VirtualNET @100 Synergy DM/F 410 747-1611  747-1656                   
��� Legion Outpost 1410001 ���  <- LeftNET @41004


TAGLINE.3
PURR -The Prospect & Upper Ridge Railroad BBS-  �Catonsville MD� 
@1410006 VirtualNET*@100 NC Synergy*@1410001 AC ���ForeignLegion���  
      VA1.30 �(410) 747-1611�14.4 (410) 747-1656 28.8 DM/F

ALL FILES WERE MADE WITH VDRAW11A.ZIP which can be FREQ'd here
and were copied into the \txt dir.
  Once you assign a tagline (#1-999) to a message base, all messages in that
base whether local or Networked add that tagline after the message is saved.