Subj : htick won't autocreate fileareas
To   : All
From : Javier Sturman
Date : Fri Mar 13 2026 10:26 am


   Hello everybody!

How do I set up htick to auto create file areas? I found on the manual that I have to set up for each link

autoFileCreate on
AutoFileCreateFile /usr/local/fido/hpt/fileareas.auto

E.g. nixnet link

Link NIXNET
AKA 86:700/1
ouraka 86:700/10
password 12345678
pktpwd 12345678
allowemptypktpwd on
echomailflavour crash
autoareacreatesubdirs on
autoFileCreate on
AutoFileCreateFile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/fileareas.auto
autoCreateFile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/areas.auto
areafixAutoCreateDefaults -a 86:700/10 -b Jam -p 3650 -dupeCheck move -dupeHistory 14 -g nixnet
linkMsgBaseDir /var/spool/ftn/msgbase/nixnet
LinkFileBaseDir /var/spool/ftn/filebase/nixnet
filebox /var/spool/ftn/fileboxes/nixnet
forwardRequests on
Packer zip
LinkGrp nixnet
AccessGrp nixnet


fido:/var/spool/ftn/inb$ ls -al
total 72
drwxrwx---   3 fido fido    7 Mar 13 10:24 .
drwxrwx---  17 fido fido   17 Mar 13 10:00 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido  625 Mar 13 04:22 AD3B2704.sec
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4163 Mar  6 06:41 NIXLIST.Z65
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4197 Mar 13 04:17 NIXLIST.Z72
-rw-r--r--   1 fido fido 4197 Mar 13 04:33 NIXLIST.Z72.1
drwxr-xr-x   2 fido fido    2 Mar 13 02:00 unsecure


fido:/var/spool/ftn/inb$ htick toss -b -c ~/fidoconfig/config
"/usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/links", line 85: unrecognized: autoFileCreate on
"/usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/links", line 86: unrecognized: AutoFileCreateFile /usr/local/fido/fidoconfig/fileareas.auto


If I remove those lines and revert back to the original config, it says the file was processed but it is not even unpacked.

----------  Fri 13 Mar 26, htick/fbsd 1.9.0-cur 2020-11-09
1 10:32:45  Start
7 10:32:45  Checking tmp dir
7 10:32:45  Processing Tic-File /var/spool/ftn/inb/AD3B2704.sec
7 10:32:45  File "NIXLIST.Z72": size: 4197, area: NIX_LIST, from: 86:70/0, orig: 86:86/1
1 10:32:45  End



/////////////////////////////////// From the manual
4.2.6 autoFileCreate
Syntax: autoFileCreate <on|off>
Example: autoFileCreate on
Allow or deny autocreating fileechos received from this link.
This statement can only be repeated for different links.
4.2.7 AutoFileCreateFile
Syntax: AutoFileCreateFile <file>
Example: AutoFileCreateFile /usr/local/fido/hpt/config.filefix
Specifies the file new filearea definitions will be placed into
This statement can only be repeated for different links.


Javier


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