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    From Bill Gordon@1:103/705 to All on Sat Nov 19 06:41:08 2016
    I'm setting up my BBS after having to rebuild the entire computer, and all seems to work, but I'm getting an error with Irex v2.31. It's in a loop, and telling me "Rex is waiting for config files to be unlocked". What do I do?
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  • From Joe Delahaye@1:249/303 to Bill Gordon on Sat Nov 19 11:08:24 2016
    Re: Unlocking config files
    By: Bill Gordon to All on Sat Nov 19 2016 06:41:09

    I'm setting up my BBS after having to rebuild the entire computer, and all seems to work, but I'm getting an error with Irex v2.31. It's in a loop, and telling me "Rex is waiting for config files to be unlocked". What do I do?

    Go into /Irex/Sema, and remove the busy file there. I start Rex with a batch file, that looks for the /sema/rex*.* file, and then removes it if there.
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  • From Bill Gordon@1:3634/22 to Joe Delahaye on Sat Nov 19 14:16:36 2016
    Re: Unlocking config files

    Go into /Irex/Sema, and remove the busy file there. I start Rex with a batch file, that looks for the /sema/rex*.* file, and then removes it if there.


    Did that, but it changed nothing. So, I copied over a copy of the entire IREX directory, and it works. But, the same question looms-what if it happens again??

    Thanks

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  • From Joe Delahaye@1:249/303 to Bill Gordon on Sat Nov 19 16:46:58 2016
    Re: Unlocking config files
    By: Bill Gordon to Joe Delahaye on Sat Nov 19 2016 14:16:37

    Did that, but it changed nothing. So, I copied over a copy of the entire IREX directory, and it works. But, the same question looms-what if it happens again??


    Make a backup of your working directory. A corrupted config can be the cause of such behaviour as well.
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  • From Michael Luko@1:266/512 to Bill Gordon on Sun Nov 20 08:02:00 2016
    Did that, but it changed nothing. So, I copied over a copy of the
    entire IREX directory, and it works. But, the same question
    looms-what if it happens again??

    When this happens to me I just delete the sem files and copy over the
    event.rex file. The event file is usually the one that gets corupted for
    some reason.

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