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|    Gert Andersen to Janis Kracht    |
|    New try of installation    |
|    16 Sep 13 16:54:36    |
       * Reply to message originally in area CarbonArea              Hello Janis!              Sun Sep 15 2013, Janis Kracht wrote to Gert Andersen:               >>>> I am trying to make a new installation of bbbs_nt to work on a Win7 co        >>>> XP system.        >>>> I got all to look rigt of things.        >>>> But when I have tic and files in the inbound directory for bbbs and         >>>> run 'bbbs btick' to import the files is bbbs comes up with error of         >>>> 'cant copy file to \home\bbbs\pub\[dir]\               >>> 1st, check the path in your filedirg.000 file. 2nd, check for the same        >>> path in your external.bbb file [tick] section.               >>>> I have the path for the files and directory made for the files.        >>>> Can someone help me up with this or tell me what could be wrong.               >>> If it's not #1 or #2 above, then check the permissions on your hard        >>> drive file areas for user bbbs. I am not sure about Windows, since I        >>> run the Linux version but I thought you also control permissions in the        >>> same sort of way with Windows.               >>> Also check in filedirg.000 for permissions in the area, permissions for        >>> R&W should look something like this:               >>Got and I find a little typus miss where I had write /home/bbbs/ and         >>forgot it is /dsds2/home, after the corrected here it got import and         >> process some files but then end up with coming with pwd error for node         >> and not find out if it is 2:230/152.16 or .18        >> It uplink is 2:230/152.16 for fidonet and the bbbs aka as bbs is 152.18               JK>Kim one day worked with me to make sure the spaces were correct between         JK>the passwords for a node in the external.bbb [nodes] section. Maybe         JK>the spaces between the passwords is the problem?               JK>; node spass apass ppass tpass gr st pa route        JK>; --------- ------- ------- ------- ----- --- -- -- -------------------               JK>1:261/2 passwrd passwrd passwrd passwrd XFG H 2 1:261/5               JK>If the downlink doesn't want a packet password, you still have to put         JK>in a dash (-) there.               JK>1:261/2 passwrd passwrd - passwrd XFG H 2 1:261/5              It is just strange for nodes section when I mean that first nodenumber should       be the aka for the system and not the uplink.       In the bbbs sysop.txt doc says it 'This node' for node so it is the aka for       bbbs and not the uplinks aka.       When I change the bbbs real aka from 2:230/152.18 ( aka for the system to       uplinks aka as 2:230/152.16 ) is it working for import mails and files.       The system has 2 own akas as 2:230/152.18 115:4500/5 145:2/31 and it uplinks       akas is 2:230/152.16 115:4501/17 and 145:2/20       Then wil there maybe could be extra intern aka for it as 999:999/15 with       uplink as 999:999/2 (for own network dsdsnet).               >>> ===example filedirg.000===        >>> / /home/ftp/pub Root directory        >>> /incoming /home/bbbs/pub/incoming @rw:fsysop New uploads        >>> /comm /home/ftp/pub/comm/ @rw:fsysop @r:all [COMM] Comm/term        >>> Files]        >>> /mail /home/ftp/pub/mail/ @rw:fsysop @r:all [MAIL] Mail        >>> Utilities        >>> /pdn /home/ftp/pub/pdn/ @rw:fsysop @r:all [PDN] Programmers        >>> Distribution        >>> /pdn/pdnai /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnai/ @rw:fsysop @r:all AI        >>> (artificial int        >>> /pdn/pdnasm /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnasm/ @rw:fsysop @r:all ASM        >>> Programming        >>> [...]        >>> =======example filedirg.000====               >>Then was there 3 files to lnx4games there got erroring the most time but         >>I fin out that in external.bbb and filedirg it was writte as lnx4games         >>when harddisk directory was made as lnx4game, so I set bbbs to use dir         >> lnx4game.               JK>Ok, so that sounds like some progress..              Nearly but not complete.       I have to make some test with PascalNT and Gmsnet akas and see if new echos       and areas can be working for those and too some fido areas.               >>>> I could too like bbbs to just autocreate echomail and file areas when         >>>> it is a save way that nothing is getting directly to bbbs from         >>>> outside.               >>> Check out the [badareas] section in external.bbb.. There, you tell bbbs        >>> who to expect new echomail areas from and what specific flags to apply        >>> to each imported area your Uplink sends to you. Then you can run               >>> ./bcfg4 bad [Autocreate echoareas]        >>> and        >>> ./bbbs bogus b [Forward bad mail and write them to BBBS]               >>> IIRC, There isn't a way to automatically add file echos.               >>> Maybe Torbjorn will mention something I'm not thinking of here since he        >>> runs the Windows version.               >> It should be the same for windows as for linux should I mean, but as         >> this is telling about in the sysop files is it missing as section in the         >> external.bbb file.        >> The bbbs I have it the old bbbs_nt version.               JK>If you want me to take a look at your external.bbb file, you can attach         JK>it to an email and send it to me at janis@filegate.net.              I make some extra test to see if I make things to work right by do some route       sending from main system 2:230/150 -> 2:230/152.16 -> 2:230/152.18 and for 2       other networks akas to see if the route now is working bbbs see it rights of       akas present by names and akas. Then this is done email I you with attach file       as like dsds-bbbs.zip of the external.bbbs file.                      Take care,        Gert               - Get the best with linux -               --- Msged/LNX 6.2.0 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r1 (x86_64))        * Origin: The KofoBBS at http://www.kofobbs.dk (2:230/150)    |
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