Re: F6FBB on Debian question

[Joop Stakenborg <pg4i@xs4all.nl>]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This may be a dumb question, but I've searched all the docs I can find 
> and don't seem to get anywhere.  The FBB documentation mentions 
> INSTALL.SH for setting up initial parameters.  I installed FBB using the 
> Debian packages, and I cannot find INSTALL.SH anywhere, nor is it in the 
> file list for the package.  The BBS works quite well, as far as 
> accepting NETROM and telnet connections, except that I can't seem to set 
> security levels and actually get SYSOP access.  The Documentation 
> mentions that a file called INIT.SYS gets created, but from what I can 
> tell, the /etc/ax25/fbb.conf file seems to have SOME of the contents 
> that are supposed to be in INIT.SYS, and there is no INIT.SYS file.
> 
> Am I chasing a wild goose here?  Or is there some modification in the 
> Debian-packaged version that makes this unneccesary?
> 

You need to run /usr/sbin/fbb. This is actually a shell script, which 
asks questions and sets up a fbb.conf and port.sys file. Next it runs 
the actual daemon (xffbd). The script is easy to read, see also 'man fbb'.

> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Dave
> VA3BHF

Joop PG4I