-=> Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity on 02-22-17 16:53 <=-   
      
   Hiya Nick...   
      
    Ac> On Wed Feb 22 2017 14:39:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to Accession:   
      
    Ac>> So then the problem seems to be when the file is created. Is   
    Ac>> something else touching that file besides sbbsecho?   
      
    BM> Yes, but last night instead of the 5 or 6 errors I was getting, there   
    BM> was only two so I isolated those and did a chmod as well.   
      
    Ac> chmod most likely isn't needed at all, since sbbsecho creates those   
    Ac> files with workable permissions. It's most likely something being ran   
    Ac> (whether it be sbbsecho or smbutil) was accidentally used by root at   
    Ac> one point, or binkd was accidentally ran as root once or something..   
    Ac> but chown should probably fix this   
      
    Ac> at some point.   
      
    Ac> Unfortunately you'll probably have to go through and make sure your   
    Ac> entire sbbs   
      
    Ac> directory is owned by the "pi" user and whatever group it belongs to   
    Ac> for things   
      
    Ac> to work properly. Rather than looking everywhere with "ls -alh" you can   
    Ac> simply run "chown -R . /home//sbbs/*" without   
    Ac> quotes. If binkd is not under your sbbs heirarchy, you probably want to   
    Ac> do the same for that directory as well.   
      
    Ac>> A crontab created by the specific user, and not root.. correct?   
    Ac>> Meaning you did   
      
    Ac>> "crontab -e" as the user you wish to run as (with no sudo).   
      
    BM> Yes, no sudo. it's under Pi   
      
    Ac> I take it "Pi" is your user? Is that what you login with? Or is it   
    Ac> "alarmpi" or   
      
    Ac> "pi" or .. I'm not sure what your actual user is.   
      
    BM> OK.. let me check that tonight to see if there are any further issues.   
      
    Ac> Ok.   
      
    BM> I'll fine tune it once I get this issue resolved.  First play on the   
    BM> BIG field then downsize.. LOL!!   
      
    Ac> Permissions and ownership have always been a pain in the ass. I   
    Ac> eventually just   
      
    Ac> ran everything as root, since it's only a Rpi, and it only contains BBS   
    Ac> related   
      
    Ac> stuff. If some retard really wants to try to guess my (quite) long root   
    Ac> password, they can have at it. :)   
      
    BM> Appreciate your help...   
      
    Ac> No problemo. Besides the current development of software I use here,   
    Ac> this is one of the very few things keeping interest in the hobby these   
    Ac> days. :)   
      
   OK... I modified all scripts for now to do a chown as there were still some   
   bundles being created by sbbsecho as root.  I will see tonight once the cron   
   runs.   
      
   Isn't this fun!! lol!!   
      
   Thank God I still ahve a full head of hair...   
      
      
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