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- From: ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Administrative questions
- Message-ID: <2PgsTB7w165w@works.uucp>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:06:48 GMT
- References: <ESCHWART.92Nov4232721@netcom.Netcom.COM>
- Organization: The Works BBS - Informational Archives - Est. 1985
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- > Is there a way to increase the idle time before Waffle drops users out?
- > How about for privileged users?
- 'timeout: ' line you can put in static in seconds...
-
- >
- > When I post to newgroups (local or USENET), I see a message like
- > "EXTERN: rnews -ueric" and then something like "Article queued for outgoing
- > newsfeed." Indeed they do go out through the feed, but can I at least suppre
- > the EXTERN messages? I get the same for outgoing mail. And while I'm on
- > this question, can I also control the queueing messages?
- You can add a qualifier to your local/usenet files in the default line of
- /HUSH which will not say 'queued for outgoing newsfeed'. I never get that
- EXTERN: problem... In fact I never even see that line... <sorry>
-
- >
- > I heard the term "newuser.bat" once. Is there such a feature? How can I mak
- > a default "/user/username/waffle" file with a command to display my menu?
-
- You can make everyone run a commnad upon entering the board by adding a
- 'login: <program>' in the extern/_SYSTEM file...
-
- >
- > Do the files in /user/default get copied to new accounts? If not, is there
- > a way to do that? Putting sig and mailsig files in /waffle/system helped sol
- > part of the problem, but there are more things that I'd like to include.
- >
- > What is the difference between an Access level and a Privilege level?
- > How do these work together? What must I put in /waffle/system/static to make
- > sure that I'm not using any other magic numbers (like ranks) that complicate
- > things even further?
- Access is the required levels you set up in your message bases, and other
- board functions. This is the main way of choosing 'levels'. Currently
- Privileges are either 'yes' or 'no'.. Or rather Privilege levels of 0, 7,
- and 9 are used. 7 can validate people, 9 is sysop. 0 is normal user.
-
- >
- > Most messages that get displayed during quick logoffs (boots, bye, too many
- > calls, time expired, etc.) get cut off before they get out through the modem.
- > In other words, the carrier is dropped before the data is out. How can I
- > solve this? Is there a character to create a 'pause'?
- Insertling a ^L will do that.
- >
- > I read in the FAQ that you can add /waffle/admin/inbox to get a copy of all
- > incoming mail. It didn't work. Any ideas?
- >
- > By far the biggest problem is that I can't get the "locked: 19200" line in
- > STATIC to work. I have a Trailblazer Plus set for hardware flow control,
- > but every time I put the lock line in, I get garbage when I log in, at least
- > at 2400 baud (not sure about 19.2 k). Can anyone give me explicit STATIC
- > lines and modem settings for that?
- >
- > Probably related to that is a horrible symptom: sometimes when I connect,
- > Waffle just spews line after line of my ENTRY file as if I were holding
- > down the return key. I've been at the console when it happens, and even
- > resetting the modem doesn't usually help. This seems like a flow control
- > problem. What do I do? (It is intermittent.)
- >
- >
- > For anyone who got all the way to the tail of this message, congratulations!
- > If you want to make it worth your reading time, I would really appreciate
- > hearing from a few knowledgeable people.
- >
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Eric
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