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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...     
      
      
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