Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Fri Jan 09 2026 04:26:55

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Logic44 to Digital Man on Fri Jan 09 2026 03:26 am

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Thu Jan 08 2026 03:40:17

The ctrl/dsts.ini file is what tracks Synchronet "daily statistics" and ctrl/csts.tab logs each dailys "cumulative statistics". Are those files getting updated?

Follow up: Apparently they don't exist, do I just make the files and see if they get updated?

Sure. Or do you have any dsts.* file in the ctrl directory at all?

I deleted and remade both files, it seems to work now.
Thanks!

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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Logic44 to Digital Man on Sun Jan 11 2026 05:07 am

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Fri Jan 09 2026 04:26:55

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Logic44 to Digital Man on Fri Jan 09 2026 03:26 am

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Thu Jan 08 2026 03:40:17

The ctrl/dsts.ini file is what tracks Synchronet "daily statistics" and ctrl/csts.tab logs each dailys "cumulative statistics". Are those files getting updated?

Follow up: Apparently they don't exist, do I just make the files and see if they get updated?

Sure. Or do you have any dsts.* file in the ctrl directory at all?

I deleted and remade both files, it seems to work now.
Thanks!

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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: LNRC-IN to Digital Man on Sat Jan 17 2026 08:34 pm

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Sat Jan 17 2026 02:17 pm

Are you dsts.ini and csts.tab files getting updated? They contain date/time stamps.

I just nuked the server and it still doesn't update the files. I feel like I'm gonna lose it lol

I don't know what you mean by "nuked the server", can you clarify?

The stats files are only updated once a day, usually soon after midnight (especially if the event thread is running). I've asked you about the contents of those files (dsts.ini and csts.tab) a couple of times now - so I'll ask again: what's in the files?

Also, the log output of the server can give good clues as to when the stats were last rolled-over. Look for logged messages like these:

sbbs: evnt BBS Events New Day - Prev: Fri Nov 14 2025 12:00 am
sbbs: term Node 11 <Guest> New day detected

Do you see them?
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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to LNRC-IN on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:27 pm

I'll ask again: what's in the files?

Also, the log output of the server can give good clues as to when the stats were last rolled-over. Look for logged messages like these:

sbbs: evnt BBS Events New Day - Prev: Fri Nov 14 2025 12:00 am
sbbs: term Node 11 <Guest> New day detected

Do you see them?

There was never anything in the files because they never updated or even generated properly
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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to LNRC-IN on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:27 pm

I just nuked the server and it still doesn't update the files. I feel like I'm gonna lose it lol

I don't know what you mean by "nuked the server", can you clarify?

Re-installed everything.

All the original files and settings are gone and it still doesn't work...

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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: LNRC-IN to Digital Man on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:06 pm

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to LNRC-IN on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:27 pm

I just nuked the server and it still doesn't update the files. I feel like I'm gonna lose it lol

I don't know what you mean by "nuked the server", can you clarify?

Re-installed everything.

You were running v3.20d before, correct? What version are you running now? Nobody instructed you to re-install anything. That was not needed.

All the original files and settings are gone and it still doesn't work...

v3.20d has a known bug with creating the dsts.ini file for the first time. If you're running v3.20d, you'll need to create the dsts.ini file yourself, just a single line should do it:
Date=Jan 1 2026

Then when the BBS runs it should update the file with current stats.

If you're running v3.21a, it doesn't have this bug and there should be no issue with a missing/empty dsts.ini file in a fresh install.
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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: LNRC-IN to Digital Man on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:09 pm

Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to LNRC-IN on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:27 pm

I'll ask again: what's in the files?

Also, the log output of the server can give good clues as to when the stats were last rolled-over. Look for logged messages like these:

sbbs: evnt BBS Events New Day - Prev: Fri Nov 14 2025 12:00 am
sbbs: term Node 11 <Guest> New day detected

Do you see them?

There was never anything in the files because they never updated or even generated properly

And the log files? I asked about them. Certainly you have log output from the Synchronet servers, right?
https://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:index for information on monitor/logging of Synchronet.
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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to Logic44 on Sat Jan 17 2026 02:17 pm

Are you dsts.ini and csts.tab files getting updated? They contain date/time stamps.

I just nuked the server and it still doesn't update the files. I feel like I'm gonna lose it lol

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Re: Daily counts not resetting
By: Digital Man to LNRC-IN on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:15 pm

And the log files? I asked about them. Certainly you have log output from the Synchronet servers, right?
https://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:index for information on monitor/logging of Synchronet.

Apparently the whole system needed to be wiped, because when I restarted the server hardware it went into auto-repair, and when I finally restarted into the OS, it was complaining that it needed to be re-installed.
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