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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 08-Nov-2003</h5></div>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 11-Aug-2005</h5></div>
<div align="center"><H1>mball - Allfiles listing generator</H1></div>
<H3>Synopsis.</H3>
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these files you can hatch them into your bbs with the programs <strong>
mbfido tic</strong> when you properly setup a .tic file area for this purpose
and create records for the hatch manager.
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Just before the reports are created, and if you defined WWW and FTP logfiles
with <b>mbsetup</b> in menu 1.13, the logfiles are analysed and and files
downloaded from the bbs are counted as valid downloads. To make sure downloads
are only counted once, a status file is created in ~/var, this marks the date
the last time the logfiles are checked. For the best results make sure you run
<b>mball</b> before any WWW and FTP logfiles are rotated, else you might miss
some downloads.
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<H3>Environment.</H3>
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<H3>Setup.</H3>
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In <strong>mbsetup</strong> menu 1.13 you need to set the days to include in newfiles listings and the maximum security level.
Also define valid paths to logfiles that are created by your web and ftp server.
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