Hello all,

This question is in regards to FidoNet usage. I have some downlinks, and lately I've noticed some strange files in ../data. I have the usual areas.bbs and associated areas.0.bbs / areas.1.bbs / etc... Those backups are caused by downlinks making changes to their feeds, which alters areas.bbs. So far, so good. But I'm also seeing files named like this:

AREAS1G0JDF
AREASFDpeMa
AREASXjWNXY

I currently have *30* of these. They're of various sizes and timestamps. Some of the dates are the same dates as one of the areas.?.bbs files, but there are many of the strangely named ones on dates that don't match the backup files.

Has anyone else seen this, or know what is happening here? I'm probably going to just move them somewhere and see if anything strange happens, but wanted to check first.

Thanks for any info.

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Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jul 19 2023 09:51 pm

Has anyone else seen this, or know what is happening here? I'm probably going to just move them somewhere and see if anything strange happens, but wanted to check first.

I hadn't noticed before, but yeah, I'm seeing the same thing on my system. It's a bug. You can safelty delete the files.
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Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jul 19 2023 09:51 pm

Has anyone else seen this, or know what is happening here? I'm probably going to just move them somewhere and see if anything strange happens, but wanted to check first.

I hadn't noticed before, but yeah, I'm seeing the same thing on
my system. It's a bug. You can safelty delete the files.

Thank you, sir.



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Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jul 19 2023 09:51 pm

This question is in regards to FidoNet usage. I have some downlinks, and lately I've noticed some strange files in ../data. I have the usual areas.bbs and associated areas.0.bbs / areas.1.bbs / etc... Those backups are caused by downlinks making changes to their feeds, which alters areas.bbs. So far, so good. But I'm also seeing files named like this:

AREAS1G0JDF
AREASFDpeMa
AREASXjWNXY

I see just a couple of these on my system. They're both dated August 7, 2022. I don't know what would have happened on that day to create those files..

Nightfox

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Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Thu Jul 20 2023 01:29 pm

Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jul 19 2023 09:51 pm

This question is in regards to FidoNet usage. I have some downlinks, and lately I've noticed some strange files in ../data. I have the usual areas.bbs and associated areas.0.bbs / areas.1.bbs / etc... Those backups are caused by downlinks making changes to their feeds, which alters areas.bbs. So far, so good. But I'm also seeing files named like this:

AREAS1G0JDF
AREASFDpeMa
AREASXjWNXY

I see just a couple of these on my system. They're both dated August 7, 2022. I don't know what would have happened on that day to create those files..

Presumably, a remote area manager (areafix) request (via FTN netmail).
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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

This question is in regards to FidoNet usage. I have some downlinks, and lately I've noticed some strange files in ../data. I have the usual areas.bbs and associated areas.0.bbs / areas.1.bbs / etc... Those backups are caused by downlinks making changes to their feeds, which alters areas.bbs. So far, so good. But I'm also seeing files named like this:

AREAS1G0JDF
AREASFDpeMa
AREASXjWNXY

I see just a couple of these on my system. They're both dated
August 7, 2022. I don't know what would have happened on that
day to create those files..

They're caused by a remote Areafix message to your system. In case you
missed it, DigitalMan said it was a bug and has committed a fix to
sbbsecho.



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Re: Re: Weird areas.bbs type files
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Thu Jul 20 2023 10:05 pm

I see just a couple of these on my system. They're both dated
August 7, 2022. I don't know what would have happened on that
day to create those files..

They're caused by a remote Areafix message to your system. In case you missed it, DigitalMan said it was a bug and has committed a fix to sbbsecho.

Yeah, I saw that.

Nightfox

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AREAS1G0JDF
AREASFDpeMa
AREASXjWNXY

I see just a couple of these on my system. They're both dated August 7,

022.

I don't know what would have happened on that day to create those files..

Well it is my birthday so I will take the blame for that. ;)


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