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   Hello Janis!   
      
   Mon Sep 16 2013, Janis Kracht wrote to Gert Andersen:   
      
    >>>>>>> 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   
      
    >>>>> Kim one day worked with me to make sure the spaces were correct    
    >>>>> between the passwords for a node in the external.bbb [nodes] section.     
    >>>>> Maybe the spaces between the passwords is the problem?   
      
    >>>>> ; node      spass   apass   ppass   tpass gr  st pa route   
    >>>>> ; --------- ------- ------- ------- ----- --- -- --    
    >>>>> -------------------   
      
    >>>>> 1:261/2      passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  XFG H   2 1:261/5   
      
    >>>>> If the downlink doesn't want a packet password, you still have to put   
    >>>>> in a dash (-) there.   
      
    >>>>> 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.   
      
    >>> NO :)  The first number in the [nodes] section is the DOWNLINK's or   
    >>> UPLINK's node number and his password(s).   
      
    >>> At the _end_ of the line, where I have 1:261/5 (last field), that is a   
    >>> routing statement saying any netmail for another node (1:261/5) should   
    >>> get routed to 1:261/2.   
      
      
    >>>> In the bbbs sysop.txt doc says it 'This node' for node so it is the    
    >>>> aka for bbbs and not the uplinks aka.   
      
    >>> You mean this line?   
      
    >>> "node        The FidoNet address of this node."   
      
    >>> That is refering to "this node you are connecting with", it could be   
    >>> your uplink or downlink, not your own node number.   
      
    >> Yes and it the right so bbbs aka 2:230/152.18 have in the file node aka    
    >> to be uplink 2:230/152.16 and etc,. for zone 115 and 145.   
      
    JK>If you are a registered user, you can get the most recent beta from Kim    
    JK>Heino. Early versions of BBBS only used "@fidonet" for all zones, but    
    JK>in the new beta Kim added "othernet support";So now, in external.bbb    
    JK>you can put   
      
    JK>===cut here===   
    JK>[ftndomains]   
      
    JK>^[1-6]: fidonet   
    JK>^111: stnnet   
    JK>^115: pascal-net   
    JK>=====cut here===   
    JK>I am not sure, but I don't think that section will work with trial    
    JK>(unregistered) version.   
      
   I can try to put it in for 4 networks as I later can see if I can let the   
   business where the bbbs shall be working pay for let bbbs be registered for   
   windows as it only is on Windows that bbbs shall run and for linux has I   
   another bbs to be setup for running in one setup for both mailer and bbs etc.   
   use.   
      
    >> I tested out by hatch a new linux game in lnx4games and each time it got    
    >> to bbbs for import it got filtered and deleted why bbs not could find or    
    >>requnize a unzip.exe from where I have the path for it. so I just to go to   
    >>  sourceforge and get a dl of unzip here and then copy 3 files for unzip    
    >> to both \usr\bin\ and \home\bbbs dirs and write 2 new extra lines in    
    >> external.bbbs file so bbbs first look in usr\bin and then again the same    
    >>place if not found then look for it in its own directory.   
      
    JK>Ok.   
      
    >>Now a new zip file was ask to be resend from 2:230/150 to /152.16 and to    
    >>bbbs, and it now looks got fine process and put to pub dir lnx4game with    
    >> fine info header with both your hdr and mine there.   
      
    JK>Sounds good.   
      
    >>>> 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 uplin 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.   
      
    >>>>> 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 an areas can be working for those and too some fido areas.   
      
    >>> Use that method I mentioned in my last message to you to autocreate the   
    >>> msg. areas (bcfg4->Global->Multiadd)   
      
    >>>>>>>> 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.   
      
    >>>>> If you want me to take a look at your external.bbb file, you can    
    >>>>> attach 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.   
      
    >>> Ok, sounds good.   
      
    >>So it is now if I can get the 2 other akas to work and it will be most    
    >>for 145 gmsnet as there is getting lot of games in this network now. (It    
    >> is my own games hatching to it.)   
      
    JK>Hope it all works for you..   
      
   It seem now that all is in work to be finish just that bcfg4 is trying to   
   import a networks messages echo all time.   
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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