A maintenance routine

This is a sensible routine for a small board. Adjust it to your traffic.

• Run PBUtil FC after downloads, so that file counters and the top-download lists stay current.
• Run PBUtil DM (daily maintenance).
• If you use FidoNet mail, toss and scan mail on a schedule. See FidoNet mail.
• Rotate the logs with Tools > Rotate Logs Now, or from the Log Viewer's Clear. See Logs.

You can start any of these from a Windows scheduled task, or from an event in PBEVENTS.CFG, which PBDispatch runs. See Program updates for an example of an event.

• PBUtil MP packs message bases and removes deleted messages. Run it with no callers online.
• PBUtil UP packs the user file.
• PBUtil UK removes users who have never come back, if you want to.
• Check Reporting for failed logins and ban lists, and run Tools > Login Guard > Clear Bans only if good addresses were caught.

• Check for updates. See Program updates.
• Rebuild all plug-ins if the SDK changed. See Plug-ins and the SDK.