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Hello everyone. I was a BBS Sysop way back in the 80's but I seem to
have forgotten more then I should admit.

I've been working on getting sbbs and binkd up and running on a Linux
box. I put in a temp fidonet address of 1:140/999 in binkd and sbbs.
My directory structure is like:

/sbbs/
/sbbs/fido/inbound
/sbbs/fido/outbound
/sbbs/fido/binkd (Holds node list and binkd.log)
/sbbs/fido/inbsecure
/sbbs/fido/incomplete
/sbbs/fido/nodelist

I wrote a netmail message to the local RC and it saved the message in /sbbs/fido/outbound as 1.msg. When I manually run sbbsecho -linf it
gives me the following:

zeus exec # ./sbbsecho -linf

SBBSecho v2.27-Linux (rev 1.250) - Synchronet FidoNet Packet Tosser

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl


Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.cfg

Reading /sbbs/data/areas.bbs

Scanning for Stray Outbound Packets...

Scanning for Outbound EchoMail...

Scanning sbbs -> SYNCHRONET
No new messages.

Scanning syncdata -> SYNCDATA
No new messages.

Scanning sync_sys -> SYNC_SYSOPS
No new messages.


Packing Outbound NetMail from /sbbs/fido/outbound/

I've got binkd -m -vv /etc/binkd/binkd.cfg running in another window and
it just sits there and does nothing. I thought sbbsecho should create a semaphore file that binkd would see to send the mail along. I can post
my binkd config if needed. I have a copy of the latest nodelist for
binkd. Is there something I'm missing in sbbs? I'm just kinda lost as
to what my next steps for debugging this are.

Thanks
Stephen Atkins
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Re: Getting Fidonet going
By: Urban Nightmare to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Apr 25 2014 03:46 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Hello everyone. I was a BBS Sysop way back in the 80's but I seem to
have forgotten more then I should admit.

I've been working on getting sbbs and binkd up and running on a Linux
box. I put in a temp fidonet address of 1:140/999 in binkd and sbbs.
My directory structure is like:

/sbbs/
/sbbs/fido/inbound
/sbbs/fido/outbound
/sbbs/fido/binkd (Holds node list and binkd.log)
/sbbs/fido/inbsecure
/sbbs/fido/incomplete
/sbbs/fido/nodelist

I wrote a netmail message to the local RC and it saved the message in /sbbs/fido/outbound as 1.msg. When I manually run sbbsecho -linf it
gives me the following:

zeus exec # ./sbbsecho -linf

SBBSecho v2.27-Linux (rev 1.250) - Synchronet FidoNet Packet Tosser

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl

Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.cfg

Reading /sbbs/data/areas.bbs

Scanning for Stray Outbound Packets...

Scanning for Outbound EchoMail...

Scanning sbbs -> SYNCHRONET
No new messages.

Scanning syncdata -> SYNCDATA
No new messages.

Scanning sync_sys -> SYNC_SYSOPS
No new messages.

Packing Outbound NetMail from /sbbs/fido/outbound/

I've got binkd -m -vv /etc/binkd/binkd.cfg running in another window and
it just sits there and does nothing. I thought sbbsecho should create a semaphore file that binkd would see to send the mail along. I can post
my binkd config if needed. I have a copy of the latest nodelist for
binkd. Is there something I'm missing in sbbs? I'm just kinda lost as
to what my next steps for debugging this are.

You shouldn't need a semaphore file. Binkd should be continuously looking at your outbond directory and the SBBSecho "Packing Outbound NetMail" operation should've created an outbound packet and a corresponding FLO file. See if these
pages help:
http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:fidonet_files
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:binkd

digital man

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