Hello Nicholas!   
      
   12 Sep 2011 20:01, Nicholas Boel wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    >> suggestions on /etc/conf.d/binkd and /etc/init.d/binkd why not just use    
    >> /etc/xinet.d/binkp ?   
      
    NB> Frankly, I've never looked into it. I don't run xinetd over here.    
    NB> Though I did make a successful /etc/init.d/binkd using start-stop-daemon.    
    NB> It works, and I'm not thoroughly informed on ivp6 yet, so I really have   
   no    
    NB> reason to have that enabled. Honestly, I don't really know what it does   
   or    
    NB> how it works yet. But someday. :)_   
      
   try testing updated binkd now, hope its more perfect now then before, bugs   
   tell me :=)   
      
    >> i think about USE flags to enable disable things in configure, but also    
    >> to n make it bloated with to much possilibies in not working config   
      
   i made this now   
      
    NB> You could. But then again, I don't even use a "USE" variable in    
    NB> /etc/make.conf right now. I used to have one that was 1000 characters   
   long    
    NB> with a desktop environment.   
      
   he its helping not to have selected a desktop profile on a server :)   
      
   and not use a server profile for desktopping   
      
    NB> I'm not really into that anymore.   
      
   good :)   
      
    NB> The BBS machine is a nice new Gentoo install with syslog-ng, logrotate,    
    NB> vixie-cron, and a dhcp client. That's about it besides my prerequisites    
    NB> for my BBS software,   
      
   okay that was also bit of my plan with fidonet overlay, to keep it simple to   
   have a gentoo install with fidonet   
      
    NB> the software itself, and binkd. I'm trying to keep it minimal this time    
    NB> around. I have an i5 with multiple VMs for toying around with whatever I    
    NB> want.   
      
   please do and report any fault i have made in latest binkd   
      
    NB> Either way, the original binkd tarball compiles fine with no    
    NB> requirements,   
      
   if it did not its a upstream bug   
      
    NB> USE flags, or anything else for that matter. And I'm totally fine with    
    NB> that. :)   
      
      ----- binkd.ebuild begins -----   
   [I] net-fido/binkd [1]   
        Available versions:  1.0-r561{tbz2} {-aso -bwlim bzip2 -doc -ntlm -perl   
   -proxy zlib}   
        Installed versions:  1.0-r561{tbz2}(22:28:42 09/28/11)(-aso -bwlim -bzip2   
   -doc -ntlm -perl -proxy -zlib)   
        Homepage:            http://happy.kiev.au/   
        Description:         Binkd daemon for ftn over ip   
      
   [1] "fidonet" /var/lib/layman/fidonet   
      ----- binkd.ebuild ends -----   
      
   me too :)   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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