[xfbb] convoluted directory structure

Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:15:07 -0300

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Allan

Hi.  And let me apologize for not being able to talk with you on the last 
two calls.  I am having quite a bout with this cold that I even had to see 
a doctor. But so far his medicine is not helping a bit.  I don't know what 
to do but go back to another doctor on Monday.

Apart from that - lets try and deal with your problem here.....

At 08:02 PM 4/3/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I did a perfect install of the lib,tools and utils for AX25 on my machine, 
>turned everything on in my Kernel for AX.25, recompiled it and even did an 
>updatedb.
>
>You would think that would help with the install of xfbb??

No.

>
>Nooooo.
>
>I really need some help here, is there anyone out there who has written 
>something to deal with the places things are supposed to be???

The author(s) of the ax25 utils have written their programs to work 
perfectly if you follow exactly what they are saying. Once that is done the 
utils will not only install ok but the applications dependent upon them 
will be able to find them.

>Or how to fix this so I can at least get going with xfbb?
>
>Running ./install_sh cuts off after you put in your personal info and then 
>complains it cannot find ./sbin/xfbb.

Is /sbin/xfbb in your path.  And further more ,  is xfbb in that 
directory??  Have a look.

>
>I really want to run fbb in my linux box as a server because I really like it.

Well xfbb is nice but today there is very little use for it anymore.  I 
think we talked about that on our first phone call. People are using the 
Internet now for mail so there is little need to run a BBS for one or two 
people.

However, having said that - you should still try and get it to work for you 
just for the experience.  And I see no reason why you can't get it going. 
When you run that install program everything falls into place.  And once 
that is done and you manually run xfbb by typing in fbb from your root 
directory - up it will come but it will ask you a number of questions on 
the way up.  It will also be checking to see if you have your directories 
all set up correctly and if not will make them for you.  So it is pretty smart.

Once that is done, xfbb will be running and waiting for people to 
connect.  Of course if you don't have your port.sys file and others made up 
to make xfbb work, than it won't come up.  It needs to know about your 
ports and what they are called etc. etc.. Not difficult or tricky but just 
simple stuff that is needed.

So there you go.  Keep at it and all will work.

Too bad you didn't have a 24 hr internet line to that computer.  I could 
telnet in and do it all for you.  I have done this for lots of people and 
it is like doing it on my own computer at home.  Really neat.

>
>Please help.
>
>73
>Alan
>VY2WU

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Ted Gervais,
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Allan 

Hi.  And let me apologize for not being able to talk with you on the
last two calls.  I am having quite a bout with this cold that I even
had to see a doctor. But so far his medicine is not helping a bit. 
I don't know what to do but go back to another doctor on 
Monday.

Apart from that - lets try and deal with your problem here.....

At 08:02 PM 4/3/2004 -0400, you wrote:

I did a
perfect install of the lib,tools and utils for AX25 on my machine, turned
everything on in my Kernel for AX.25, recompiled it and even did an
updatedb.

You would think that would help with the
install of xfbb??

No.

Nooooo.

I really need some help here, is there anyone
out there who has written something to deal with the places things are
supposed to be??? 

The author(s) of the ax25 utils have written their programs to work
perfectly if you follow exactly what they are saying. Once that is done
the utils will not only install ok but the applications dependent upon
them will be able to find them.

Or how to
fix this so I can at least get going with xfbb?

Running ./install_sh cuts off after you put in
your personal info and then complains it cannot find
./sbin/xfbb.

Is /sbin/xfbb in your path.  And further more ,  is xfbb in
that directory??  Have a look.

I really want to run fbb in my linux box as a
server because I really like it.

Well xfbb is nice but today there is very little use for it
anymore.  I think we talked about that on our first phone call.
People are using the Internet now for mail so there is little need to run
a BBS for one or two people.

However, having said that - you should still try and get it to work for
you just for the experience.  And I see no reason why you can't get
it going. When you run that install program everything falls into
place.  And once that is done and you manually run xfbb by typing in
fbb from your root directory - up it will come but it will ask you a
number of questions on the way up.  It will also be checking to see
if you have your directories all set up correctly and if not will make
them for you.  So it is pretty smart.

Once that is done, xfbb will be running and waiting for people to
connect.  Of course if you don't have your port.sys file and others
made up to make xfbb work, than it won't come up.  It needs to know
about your ports and what they are called etc. etc.. Not difficult or
tricky but just simple stuff that is needed.  

So there you go.  Keep at it and all will work.

Too bad you didn't have a 24 hr internet line to that computer.  I
could telnet in and do it all for you.  I have done this for lots of
people and it is like doing it on my own computer at home.  Really
neat.

Please help.

73

Alan

VY2WU

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Ted Gervais,

Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada

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