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|    Joacim Melin to Wilfred van Velzen    |
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|    09 Oct 25 22:57:25    |
      MSGID: 2:221/242.0@FidoNet 68e8925c       REPLY: 2:280/464 68e82867       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       PID: NiKom v2.6.0       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7        WvV> Hi Joacim,               WvV> On 2025-10-09 22:30:14, you wrote to All:               JM>> I'm trying to get the Exec parameter in binkd.cfg on Linux to work.               JM>> I tried this (having no idea wth I'm doing...):               JM>> exec "crashmail toss settings /etc/binkd/crashmail.prefs"               JM>> Does not work, of course. What am I doing wrong here? I also tried it         WvV> with        JM>> the full path to Crashmail:               JM>> exec "/usr/bin/crashmail toss settings /etc/binkd/crashmail.prefs"               JM>> Same result:               JM>> ? 09 Oct 23:07:48 [10527] the syntax is incorrect for 'exec' ? 09 Oct 23:        WvV> 07:48        JM>> [10527] error in configuration, using old config               JM>> Any ideas?               WvV> The exec line needs at least a second parameter, to specify on which        WvV> files received it needs to be executed.               WvV> So use * for all files.        WvV> Or *.[pP][kK][tT] for packet files.               WvV> There are plenty of examples for this in the binkd.conf example        WvV> file! https://github.com/pgul/binkd/blob/master/binkd.conf              Thank you Wilfred. That did it!               Now I need to figure out the nodelist compiler but that's for another       night...                      --- NiKom v2.6.0        * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (2:221/242.0)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 129/14 305 153/757 7715 154/10 30 110 201/0 203/0 214/22       SEEN-BY: 218/0 1 215 601 610 620 700 840 860 880 221/1 6 242 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 200 206 275 300 307 317 426 428 470 664 700       SEEN-BY: 229/705 230/0 240/1120 5832 263/1 266/512 280/464 5003 5006       SEEN-BY: 280/5555 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 467/888 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 902/26 5020/400       PATH: 221/242 1 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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