From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joop Stakenborg Subject: Re: F6FBB on Debian question Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:03:52 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40B78D18.1090703@xs4all.nl> References: <1083593589.1273.39.camel@oh2bns.ampr.org> <33777.192.168.1.116.1083599653.squirrel@gateway> <40A8FCD5.5070902@utoronto.ca> <40A90375.3080401@xs4all.nl> <40B7406B.7080909@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40B7406B.7080909@utoronto.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Dave Stubbs Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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