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    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ALL on Monday, September 03, 2018 09:19:00
    One of my downlinks has reported an issue with tickit. They are also
    running synchronet and tickit. Apparently, when my board adds my address,
    it adds the "@micronet" at the end. When his board gets the tic with the domain included, it spins out of control as described by Nigel Reed/Neglin below.

    It sounds like the user has patched tickit to prevent the endless loop on
    the receiving end, but the adding of the domain issue by the hub still
    exists.

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    MIKE wrote:
    My patch just deals with incoming tic files with the @domain added to the
    From: line. It doesn't stop the process of creating tic files with the
    @domain. I don't use that feature so I wouldn't even know where to look,
    sorry.

    So you actually patched it and not deuce?

    I did not realize that. I probably need to report the addition of the domain as an issue (IF it is an issue).

    Well, it is an issue unless running the patched ticket. Basically the
    tickit.js will run in a new thread and get stuck in an infinite loop which
    will make sbbs take up 100% and generally start dying. While not impossible
    to find the PID of a thread, not a lot of people are going to know it off
    the top of their head or may not even realize sbbs runs a bunch of threads which isn't visible from a regular ps command.

    So, yes, it should probably be reported that tic files should not be
    generated with a @domain prefix on the From: line but if they are, at least
    the issue is mitigated.

    http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exec/load/fido_syscfg.js?view=log


    Log of /exec/load/fido_syscfg.js
    Sticky Tag:
    Revision 1.20
    Sun Aug 26 21:10:47 2018 UTC (7 days, 8 hours ago) by rswindell
    Branch: MAIN
    CVS Tags: HEAD
    Changes since 1.19: +3 -1 lines
    Diff to previous 1.19
    Nelgin's change:
    it should fix the issue of tic files being generated with @domain added to
    the From: line and putting tickit into an endless loop.
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