home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   LINUX      Torvalds farts & fans know what he ate      8,232 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 6,657 of 8,232   
   Benny Pedersen to Phillip Taylor   
   Re: Linux & Modems   
   04 Nov 20 03:42:18   
   
   MSGID: 2:230/0 5fa2243b   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   REPLY: 1:275/201.30@fidonet 5f9ed71e   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
   Hello Phillip!   
      
   01 Nov 2020 09:41, Phillip Taylor wrote to Andrew Leary:   
      
    PT> Please keep in mind that the recommended init strings in the manual in    
    PT> most cases will not work if your trying to host a bbs system.  You    
    PT> will have to play around with the init strings to get it to work.   
      
   yes, it should be openrc or systemd in linux, bash is not supported, oh well   
   it looks like bash, but the intepretter is not bash   
      
      ----- binkd begins -----   
   #!/sbin/openrc-run   
      
   depend() {   
           need net localmount   
           use dns logger clock wlan   
           after bootmisc hostname   
   }   
      
   start() {   
           ebegin "Starting binkd"   
           start-stop-daemon --start --user ${BINKD_USER} --exec /usr/bin/binkd   
   --pidfile ${BINKD_PID} -- ${BINKD_OPTIONS} ${BINKD_CFG}   
           eend $?   
   }   
      
   stop() {   
           ebegin "Stopping binkd"   
           start-stop-daemon --stop --user ${BINKD_USER} --exec /usr/bin/binkd   
   --pidfile ${BINKD_PID}   
           eend $?   
   }    ----- binkd ends -----   
      
   works on gentoo :)   
      
      ----- binkd begins -----   
   # /etc/conf.d/binkd: config file for /etc/init.d/binkd   
      
   # Options to pass to the binkd daemon.   
   # See the binkd(8) man page for more info.   
      
   # dont use root   
   BINKD_USER="xpoint"   
      
   # change xpoint to what user dir is home dir   
   BINKD_CFG="/home/xpoint/config/binkd.conf"   
      
   # pid file must be in homedir   
   BINKD_PID="/home/xpoint/config/binkd.pid"   
      
   # other options outside of initrc   
   BINKD_OPTIONS="-CD"   
      ----- binkd ends -----   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... too late to die young :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.9.2-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))   
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 123/131 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424   
   SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 550 616 664 1016 240/5832 249/206 317 400 292/854   
   SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280   
   PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 229/101 426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca