[xfbb] New Installation

[Ray Wells]

Jose,

The correct location for fbb.conf is now /usr/local/etc/ax25.

I manually moved the sample file there and that solved the problem of no 
config file but it doesn't solve the other problems.

Regardless, the installation script used to create the necessary files 
but now it doesn't.

In the past the installation script has said there is no fbb.conf and 
asked if you want to create it with Y/N.

This is what happened on a fresh installation on a test machine here.
1. I ran /..../fbbsrc/install_sh and it created directories and some files.
2. I did cd /usr/local/sbin and ran fbb &
I was asked "Configuration files does not exist. Create them (Y/N) ?"
I was immediately returned to the shell prompt without striking any 
keys. Here is the complete line ....
Configuration files does not exist. Create them (Y/N) 
?tvlinux:/usr/local/sbin#

This problem is one I have observed over the last year, about the same 
time that stack protection has been in vogue. Is there a connection? Is 
something else failing in the installation script because of stack 
protection in newer kernels? I first noticed the stack protection 
problem when I updated a Kubuntu system to a 2.6.18 <something> kernel. 
The new installation refered to below uses 2.6.18-6. That Kubuntu test 
system had the fbb installation problem with kernel 2.6.18 <greater than 
-3> I don't recall exactly which version. I didn't take too much notice 
when it only happened once.

The problem only happens with a new system. An upgrade of an existing 
system does not suffer these problems because the files already exist.

I did a remote UPGRADE on a Ubuntu 8.04 system on Saturday - all went fine.
I did a remote NEW installation on a Debian system this morning and it 
failed

I have seen this problem locally on a test machine with both Kubuntu 
7.04 and Debian 4.0.

It doesn't particularly worry me, because I've been around xfbb for 10 
years and know how to get around the problem. My concern is for 
newcomers who strike problems and give up.

Ray vk2tv

Jose :: EA1AY wrote:

>move fbb.conf to...
>
>/etc/ax25
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>El 19/05/2008, a las 4:48, Ray Wells escribió:
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>Some time back I advised of a problem with xfbb on a new installation.
>>
>>When /usr/local/sbin/fbb & is run for the first time it offers to  
>>create
>>some files and asks for a Y/N answer. When a Y is given the bash shell
>>says Y is not a bash command.
>>
>>Today I was setting up a new remote installation of fbb and got the  
>>same
>>result. I ran /..../fbbsrc/install_sh and a number of files were
>>created, but only after I manually moved fbb/conf to
>>/usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb.conf before running the script. When I  
>>tried to
>>forward with my bbs from this new system, as soon as I made the first
>>proposal, the remote bbs disconnected.
>>
>>The problem turned out to be that epurmess.ini didn't exist. It wasn't
>>created by the install script, and didn't exist in the source  
>>directories.
>>
>>Ray vk2tv
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