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    From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Michael Buchholz on Sat Dec 12 11:28:00 2015

    Michael,

    I've tried a few different things online But really want to have IRex runnin MB>in the background and have it start on boot.

    I run it in daemon mode, and have a shortcut for it in the Windows startup folder. I did that under Windows XP, and am doing it now under Windows 7.

    Daryl

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  • From Deepend@1:342/11 to Daryl Stout on Mon Dec 14 03:16:49 2015

    Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit more of a fight for me. Everything seems to be functioning as intended. Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though. Since I have to specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the linux version no matter what I do)

    Thanks
    Mike
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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Deepend on Mon Dec 14 07:44:57 2015
    Hello Deepend!

    14 Dec 15 03:16, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

    Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit
    more of a fight for me. Everything seems to be functioning as
    intended. Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though. Since I
    have to specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead
    of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the
    linux version no matter what I do)

    This is due to changes in Linux since IRex was released. IRex for Linux came out when the kernel was at 2.4.x. IIRC, changes to DNS resolving in kernel 2.6.x broke the library that Charles Cruden used in the Linux version of IRex. The only solution is to do one of 2 things:

    1. Specify all connections via IP address instead of hostname.
    2. Switch away from IRex. BinkD is known to work well in currrent versions of Linux, along with mbcico (the mailer included with MBSE BBS), ifcico, and a few others.

    Andrew

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Deepend on Mon Dec 14 09:52:30 2015

    14 Dec 15 03:16, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

    Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit
    more of a fight for me.

    it shouldn't have been... there's two ways to start a program, i'm sure you know... one is an init.d script... the other is a link in a user's graphical startup folder al la winwhatever...

    Everything seems to be functioning as intended.

    glad to hear that...

    Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though. Since I have to
    specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the linux
    version no matter what I do)

    there never will be a fix for this unless there is a newer version released... there was a major change in the way that lookups are done in code and if the code has not been updated to follow the calls, then it will always fail...

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    glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

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  • From ROBERT WOLFE@1:116/18 to DEEPEND on Mon Dec 14 21:31:00 2015
    Deepend wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

    Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit
    more of a fight for me. Everything seems to be functioning as
    intended. Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though. Since I
    have to specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead
    of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the
    linux version no matter what I do)

    This is a known issue that has to do with the libraries that current
    kernels are compiled with and use. I do not see Charles working on fixing
    this issue any time in the near or distant future.

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