[xfbb] New Installation

[Jose :: EA1AY]

Hi Ray:

I'm use XFBB since fist beta releases. Now here is 7.04j under Debian  
4.0 (2.6.18-5-486) and fbb.conf is locate ay /etc/ax25

XFBB installed from Debian packages.

73 de Jose, EA1AY.

ax25: EA1AY en ED1ZAC.EAC.ESP.EU

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El 19/05/2008, a las 6:53, Ray Wells escribió:

> 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
>>
>> 73 de Jose, EA1AY en ED1ZAC.EAC.ESP.EU
>>
>> ED1ZAC BBS - DX Cluster - Network Node
>> 144.975 MHz 1200 bps - 430.500 MHz 9600 bps
>> ED1ZAC BBS -> telnet://80.32.9.99:6300
>> ED1ZAC-5 DX Cluster -> telnet://80.32.9.99:8000
>> Web Cluster http://80.32.9.99/cgi-bin/spider.cgi
>> ED1ZAC-8 OpenBCM BBS -> http://80.32.9.99:8080
>>
>> El 19/05/2008, a las 4:48, Ray Wells escribió:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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