For that matter I have chown -R 777 * to ensure there were no permission   
   issues. Same issue. And resulting error.    
      
   On 17:37 23/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:   
   >Hello Chad,   
   >   
   >> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$    
   >   
   >Ok, you installed BBBS to the /var/opt/bbbs directory?  Who owns the    
   >/var/opt/bbbs directory? It appears that you are running BBBS as user   
   >"irc".  At a command prompt do a "ls -l -d /var/opt/bbbs" to see the    
   ownership   
   > and current permissions of the directory where you have BBBS installed.   
   >   
   >Here everything in /var/opt is owned by root. And here BBBS is run as user   
   bbbs   
   > and BBBS is installed at /home/bbbs and a "ls -l -d /home/bbbs" shows:   
   >   
   >drwxr-xr-x 58 bbbs bbbs 20480 Nov 23 23:00 /home/bbbs   
   >   
   >Which shows that /home/bbbs is owned by group "bbbs" and user "bbbs"  and   
   >drwxr-xr-x means:   
   >   
   >"d" means the subject is a directory and not a file.   
   >   
   >"rwx" means the directory's owner "bbbs" can list its contents, create new   
   >files within it, and descend into it.   
   >   
   >"r-x" means members of the directory's group can list its contents and descend   
   >into it   
   >   
   >"r-x" means other users can list the directory's contents and descend into it   
   >   
   >And a ls -l /home/bbbs/bcfg4 shows   
   >   
   >-rwxrwxr-x 1 bbbs bbbs 278528 Dec 13  2016 /home/bbbs/bcfg4   
   >   
   >The first "-" means that it is a file and not a directory.    
   >   
   >"r" means that user "bbbs" has read access   
   >   
   >"w" means that user "bbbs" has write access   
   >   
   >"x" means that user "bbbs" has execute access.   
   >   
   >   
   >Jeff   
   >   
   >   
   >   
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