I'm considering having my MBSE box hooked up to a UUCP mail and news feed.

With that in mind, I've got Postfix currently routing mail for regular users
on the box to my UUCP hub and it's all working.

Couple of questions:

- How do I make rmail feed mail to MBSE? I've looked at the manual but am finding it rather difficult to figure out exactly what it is I need to do
to my postfix config to make the mail get fed into MBSE.

- How do I import news into MBSE? Typically uuxqt calls "rnews", what do I
have to do to make sure the mail gets fed into MBSE?

I don't want to act as a gateway, I simply want to have it act as a UUCP
leaf node with mail and news going in and out of MBSE via UUCP.

PS: Andrew - if you're reading this, did you find that list of escape codes
for MBSE ANSI screens to show things like current message area etc?

Thanks in advance,

Sampsa




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Hello Sampsa!

01 Dec 16 01:40, you wrote to all:

PS: Andrew - if you're reading this, did you find that list of escape codes for MBSE ANSI screens to show things like current message area
etc?

Check out mbsebbs-<version>/html/menus/control.html for the list.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

Have you configured either BBSLink or Doorparty under MBSE? If so... could you share how? ;) I've had it working on mystic and ezycom but mystic has an internal telnet door and ezycom used a windows telnet door.

Shawn

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Hello Shawn!

01 Dec 16 12:55, you wrote to me:

Have you configured either BBSLink or Doorparty under MBSE? If
so... could you share how? ;) I've had it working on mystic and
ezycom but mystic has an internal telnet door and ezycom used a
windows telnet door.

I haven't tried it yet, but it should be as simple as creating a script to telnet to the appropriate hostname and port.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

01 Dec 16 13:51, you wrote to me:

I haven't tried it yet, but it should be as simple as creating a
script to telnet to the appropriate hostname and port.

As in just a simple script?

#!/bin/bash
telnet whateveraddress port

Or would I need to get fancier?

Shawn


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Hello Shawn!

01 Dec 16 14:43, you wrote to me:

I haven't tried it yet, but it should be as simple as creating a
script to telnet to the appropriate hostname and port.

As in just a simple script?

#!/bin/bash
telnet whateveraddress port

Or would I need to get fancier?

That should do the trick.

Andrew

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Andrew Leary wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

@MSGID: <58401FC6.24.mbse@b4bbs.com>
@TZ: 412c
Hello Sampsa!

01 Dec 16 01:40, you wrote to all:

PS: Andrew - if you're reading this, did you find that list of escape codes for MBSE ANSI screens to show things like current message area
etc?

Check out mbsebbs-<version>/html/menus/control.html for the list.

Andrew

Cheers, will do.

Sampsa

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Andrew Leary wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

Check out mbsebbs-<version>/html/menus/control.html for the list.

Thanks, that worked.

Any idea why "mbfido news" keeps throwing this error:

? 02-Dec-2016 15:27:00 mbfido[1338] chartran_init(ISO-8859-1, Undef): iconv_open(Undef, UTF-8) error: Invalid argument

I've configured the newsgroup to use the following charset:

11. Charset UTF-8 4

Any ideas?

Sampsa


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Any idea why "mbfido news" keeps throwing this error:

? 02-Dec-2016 15:27:00 mbfido[1338] chartran_init(ISO-8859-1, Undef): iconv_open(Undef, UTF-8) error: Invalid argument

Yes. to into mbsetup and change the charset for all the default areas. its
not defined by default. U have to select either UTF or CPxxx

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Hello Andrew!

01 Dec 16 16:35, you wrote to me:

Or would I need to get fancier?

That should do the trick.

Thanks Andrew I'll be playing with that on my next day off. ;)

Shawn

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Hello Andrew!

01 Dec 16 16:35, you wrote to me:

As in just a simple script?

That should do the trick.

It did. Now one more question. Is there a control code to pass the user number on the command line? ie: /N for node?

Shawn

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Hello Shawn!

06 Dec 16 13:36, you wrote to me:

It did. Now one more question. Is there a control code to pass the user number on the command line? ie: /N for node?

You should be able to get username, etc. from the DOOR.SYS created before loading the door.

Andrew

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Hello Shawn!

06 Dec 16 23:23, I wrote to you:

It did. Now one more question. Is there a control code to
pass the user number on the command line? ie: /N for node?

You should be able to get username, etc. from the DOOR.SYS created
before loading the door.

Line 26 of DOOR.SYS is the user number, or line 5 of DOOR32.SYS.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew,

On 06 Dec 16 23:23, Andrew Leary wrote to Shawn Highfield:

It did. Now one more question. Is there a control code to
pass the user number on the command line? ie: /N for node?

You should be able to get username, etc. from the DOOR.SYS created
before loading the door.

I don't think he's referring to local games. In the case he's describing, he's making use of a telnet door game server (ie: DoorParty or BBSLink) hosted elsewhere, which would not require his system to use a dropfile.

So from what I've been reading, he's trying to create a script that once executed from one of his BBS menus, will telnet to that door game server, and is supposed to login with your BBS credentials given to you by the server's host, and then pass the user name of the person logged on to your system for use in the door game server's drop files.

It looks like Shawn's looking for a way to pass the current logged in user's name to that script, so he can continue to pass that name on to the door game server.

Regards,
Nick

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07 Dec 16 08:23, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

It looks like Shawn's looking for a way to pass the current logged in user's name to that script, so he can continue to pass that name on to
the door game server.

if he is using 4DOS or has some way to process the drop file and pull information out of it to use in the script, he could still use a drop file even
though the remote telnet game server doesn't need one... then by pulling the user's name out and adding it to the command line, he would be able to do what he is after... something like this


set callername=%@line[door.sys,9]
mytelnet -site=mysiteID -pwd=mysitePWD -myuser=%callername%


the @line function reads the door.sys file and stores the contents of line 9 (zero based) in the callername environment variable which is then passed to the
remote in the "mytelnet" command line parameters...

)\/(ark

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Hello Andrew!

07 Dec 16 01:56, you wrote to me:

You should be able to get username, etc. from the DOOR.SYS
created before loading the door.

Line 26 of DOOR.SYS is the user number, or line 5 of DOOR32.SYS.

Okay I'll whip up a bash script to read it from that. Figured I'd ask
if there was a command line first. :) Ezycom *A is the usernumber. ;)

Shawn

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Hello Andrew!

I have been getting problems with dups both from two downlinks and from echos coming in from USA & Canada.

Now I have not made any changes other than adding these 2 new downlinks to my 1.0.6 of mbse and am wondering if I upgrade to 1.0.9 and set it to NOT strip will it help to fix the problem (USA & Canada) or create more issues?

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking process makes
use of it and also there are some nets that are duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be others.


Vince

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Hello Vince,

On Thu Dec 29 2016 15:07:26, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking
process makes use of it and also there are some nets that are
duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be
others.

1:250 has not been around for a few years, actually. I don't think there are /any/ duplicate nets any more in Fidonet.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Nicholas!

Thursday December 29 2016 10:21, you wrote to me:

Hello Vince,

On Thu Dec 29 2016 15:07:26, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking
process makes use of it and also there are some nets that are
duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be
others.

1:250 has not been around for a few years, actually. I don't think
there are /any/ duplicate nets any more in Fidonet.

That makes it a bit easier but still do not know the merits or not of stripping
zones in seenbys before passing to downlinks.

but it is a bit moot at the moment as I cannot compile mbse without errors regarding libiconv and it is present as near as I can tell, see :

----
../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_close': charset.c:(.text+0x5d2): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' charset.c:(.text+0x5f0): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_init': charset.c:(.text+0x6c1): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x6f7): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x76b): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran':
charset.c:(.text+0x822): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x8a7): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x907): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x98a): undefined reference to `libiconv'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[1]: *** [mbfido] Error 1
----

It is even happening on versions previously built.



Vince

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Hello Nicholas!
Thursday December 29 2016 10:21, you wrote to me:

Hello Vince,
On Thu Dec 29 2016 15:07:26, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking
process makes use of it and also there are some nets that are
duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be
others.

1:250 has not been around for a few years, actually. I don't think
there are /any/ duplicate nets any more in Fidonet.

That makes it a bit easier but still do not know the merits or not of stripping
zones in seenbys before passing to downlinks.
but it is a bit moot at the moment as I cannot compile mbse without errors regarding libiconv and it is present as near as I can tell, see :
----
../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_close': charset.c:(.text+0x5d2): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' charset.c:(.text+0x5f0): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_init': charset.c:(.text+0x6c1): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x6f7): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x76b): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran':
charset.c:(.text+0x822): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x8a7): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x907): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x98a): undefined reference to `libiconv'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[1]: *** [mbfido] Error 1
----
It is even happening on versions previously built.
Vince

Vince,
it seems either a mistype in the code or a problem with character encoding.

Tony

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Hello Vince!

29 Dec 16 15:07, you wrote to me:

I have been getting problems with dups both from two downlinks and
from echos coming in from USA & Canada.

I've noticed some of them.

Now I have not made any changes other than adding these 2 new
downlinks to my 1.0.6 of mbse and am wondering if I upgrade to 1.0.9
and set it to NOT strip will it help to fix the problem (USA & Canada)
or create more issues?

It depends what the root cause of the problem is. If it's caused by SEEN-BY stripping, then the upgrade to 1.0.6.9 will help. If it's caused by non-compliant software modifying timestamps, etc., then 1.0.6.9 won't help, but it shouldn't hurt anything either.

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking
process makes use of it and also there are some nets that are
duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be
others.

Net 250 has been gone from Zone 1 for a while now. There aren't any duplicate nets in FidoNet anymore. That's why stripping of SEEN-BYs from inter-zone echomail isn't needed any longer.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

Thursday December 29 2016 16:46, you wrote to me:

Hello Vince!

29 Dec 16 15:07, you wrote to me:

I have been getting problems with dups both from two downlinks
and from echos coming in from USA & Canada.

I've noticed some of them.

Now I have not made any changes other than adding these 2 new
downlinks to my 1.0.6 of mbse and am wondering if I upgrade to
1.0.9 and set it to NOT strip will it help to fix the problem
(USA & Canada) or create more issues?

It depends what the root cause of the problem is. If it's caused by
SEEN-BY stripping, then the upgrade to 1.0.6.9 will help. If it's
caused by non-compliant software modifying timestamps, etc., then
1.0.6.9 won't help, but it shouldn't hurt anything either.

To my thinking it is useful to not strip them if the dup checking
process makes use of it and also there are some nets that are
duplicated in zone 1 and 2 at least 1:250 and 2:250 there may be
others.

Net 250 has been gone from Zone 1 for a while now. There aren't any duplicate nets in FidoNet anymore. That's why stripping of SEEN-BYs
from inter-zone echomail isn't needed any longer.

Well that makes it somewhat easier.

Just in case I downloaded the current sources from git at SF. I might be worth
building a new version and put it into the file section.

Anyway So I compiled it or tried to and got some errors then as a check did the
same for the current in use build and it produced the same errors.

Around 9 months back I had a major problem with my boot drive and had to restore a fair number of directories using rsync and that backup was some months old.

It is possible that the system had updates since (the back up) and something is
no longer correctly installed but cannot for the life of me work out the package that contains libiconv which I assume is the one causing the problems
although I can see the library and some of the includes.

Here is the o/p from the error log:

-!-
ar: creating libmbse.a
ar: creating libdbase.a
ar: creating libmsgbase.a
ar: creating libmbinet.a
ar: creating libdiesel.a
ar: creating libnodelist.a
binkp.c: In function ‘binkp’:
binkp.c:591:37: warning: ‘ra.point’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
(tmpa->addr->node == ra.node) && (tmpa->addr->point == ra.point)) {
^
binkp.c:409:20: note: ‘ra.point’ was declared here
faddr *fa, ra;
^
binkp.c:590:70: warning: ‘ra.node’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
if ((tmpa->addr->zone == ra.zone) && (tmpa->addr->net == ra.net) &&
^ binkp.c:409:20: note: ‘ra.node’ was declared here
faddr *fa, ra;
^
binkp.c:590:37: warning: ‘ra.net’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
if ((tmpa->addr->zone == ra.zone) && (tmpa->addr->net == ra.net) &&
^
binkp.c:409:20: note: ‘ra.net’ was declared here
faddr *fa, ra;
^
binkp.c:590:5: warning: ‘ra.zone’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
if ((tmpa->addr->zone == ra.zone) && (tmpa->addr->net == ra.net) &&
^
binkp.c:409:20: note: ‘ra.zone’ was declared here
faddr *fa, ra;
^
../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_close': charset.c:(.text+0x5d2): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' charset.c:(.text+0x5f0): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran_init': charset.c:(.text+0x6c1): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x6f7): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' charset.c:(.text+0x76b): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib/libmbse.a(charset.o): In function `chartran':
charset.c:(.text+0x822): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x8a7): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x907): undefined reference to `libiconv' charset.c:(.text+0x98a): undefined reference to `libiconv'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[1]: *** [mbfido] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
-!-

This was from the 1.0.6.9 attempt.


Here is where the lib is and its contents (there are other stuff there as well):

-!-
ll /usr/local/lib
total 13484
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212 Nov 20 2015 charset.alias
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2016 gnu-cobol/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 28 2016 hercules/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42624 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.so -> libcharset.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.so.1 -> libcharset.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37147 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582394 Sep 15 12:36 libcob.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 940 Sep 15 12:36 libcob.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 17 2016 libcob.so -> libcob.so.4.0.0* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 17 2016 libcob.so.4 -> libcob.so.4.0.0* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 363864 Sep 15 12:36 libcob.so.4.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 841 May 28 2016 libdecNumber.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105514 May 28 2016 libdecNumber.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3663278 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 988 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla.so -> libfilezilla.so.0.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla.so.0 -> libfilezilla.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1506383 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 871 May 28 2016 libhercd.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293209 May 28 2016 libhercd.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 950 May 28 2016 libherc.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 817 May 28 2016 libhercs.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4171332 May 28 2016 libherc.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9633 May 28 2016 libhercs.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 871 May 28 2016 libherct.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37415 May 28 2016 libherct.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 844 May 28 2016 libhercu.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154364 May 28 2016 libhercu.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 916 Nov 20 2015 libiconv.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 20 2015 libiconv.so -> libiconv.so.2.5.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 20 2015 libiconv.so.2 -> libiconv.so.2.5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1384623 Nov 20 2015 libiconv.so.2.5.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 29 16:53 pkgconfig/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363812 Nov 20 2015 preloadable_libiconv.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 2015 printdriver/
-!-

Here's is the includes:

-!-
ll /usr/local/include/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 14 2016 gkrellm2/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9239 Nov 20 2015 iconv.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1550 Nov 20 2015 libcharset.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2016 libcob/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1001 Sep 15 12:36 libcob.h
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 29 16:53 libfilezilla/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1395 Nov 20 2015 localcharset.h
-!-


Just downloaded libiconv from fsf but that fails compiling so now totally stuck
:)



Vince

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Hello Vince!

30 Dec 16 00:27, you wrote to me:

Just in case I downloaded the current sources from git at SF. I might
be worth building a new version and put it into the file section.

I'm planning on that for the 1.0.7 release, as soon as I can finish fixing Binkp NR mode.

Anyway So I compiled it or tried to and got some errors then as a
check did the same for the current in use build and it produced the
same errors.

Around 9 months back I had a major problem with my boot drive and had
to restore a fair number of directories using rsync and that backup
was some months old.

It is possible that the system had updates since (the back up) and something is no longer correctly installed but cannot for the life of
me work out the package that contains libiconv which I assume is the
one causing the problems although I can see the library and some of
the includes.

I suspect that is exactly what your problem is. I have no other reports of such problems compiling MBSE. I suggest backing up your MBSE home directory, reinstalling Mageia (maybe a good time to upgrade to the latest), and restoring MBSE. You'll need to either run the SETUP.sh again, or manually create the users and groups. For your BBS users, you can lookup their unix names and passwords in the BBS userfile.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

30 Dec 16 09:15, you wrote to Vince Coen:

I'm planning on that for the 1.0.7 release, as soon as I can finish
fixing Binkp NR mode.

Is that the disconnect error? It seems to work fine just logs an error.

Shawn

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Hello Shawn!

30 Dec 16 12:55, you wrote to me:

I'm planning on that for the 1.0.7 release, as soon as I can
finish fixing Binkp NR mode.

Is that the disconnect error? It seems to work fine just logs an
error.

At the start of a session with NR mode enabled, an offset of -1 isn't sent under certain circumstances. I'm still working on figuring it out and how to fix it.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

Friday December 30 2016 09:15, you wrote to me:

Am using Mag v5 as v6 is very much so still in Alpha testing.

With the issues regarding new users not able to allocate a password so I have had to kill telnet it is a bit of a pain so would like to find a replacement distro that will run KDE by choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format for packages etc.

V5 is very old and I do not have a real problem with that as I do like stability over cutting edge any day of the week but I also use GPT drives as I utilise many partitions if not only for multi boot areas for testing distros.

So far had a quick look at Fedora v25 as a live system but do not like the gui which may well be a temp faciltiy with live.

Another option is RHEL enterprise which I have a copy for testing but have not loaded it up yet.

They all seem to home one problem or another according to some but regardless will want to keep away fro Ubuntu and variations as not suitable for a server and development system.

My kit is on 24/7 for bbs, web & file servers and linking to IBM m/f so has to be stable AND work with all software including GCC compilation systems, mysql, oracle, DB2, GnuCobol to name the major products running 24/7.



Vince

30 Dec 16 00:27, you wrote to me:

Just in case I downloaded the current sources from git at SF. I
might be worth building a new version and put it into the file
section.

I'm planning on that for the 1.0.7 release, as soon as I can finish
fixing Binkp NR mode.

Anyway So I compiled it or tried to and got some errors then as a
check did the same for the current in use build and it produced
the same errors.

Around 9 months back I had a major problem with my boot drive and
had to restore a fair number of directories using rsync and that
backup was some months old.

It is possible that the system had updates since (the back up)
and something is no longer correctly installed but cannot for the
life of me work out the package that contains libiconv which I
assume is the one causing the problems although I can see the
library and some of the includes.

I suspect that is exactly what your problem is. I have no other
reports of such problems compiling MBSE. I suggest backing up your
MBSE home directory, reinstalling Mageia (maybe a good time to upgrade
to the latest), and restoring MBSE. You'll need to either run the
SETUP.sh again, or manually create the users and groups. For your BBS users, you can lookup their unix names and passwords in the BBS
userfile.

Andrew

Vince

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Hello Vince!

31 Dec 16 22:06, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

With the issues regarding new users not able to allocate a password so
I have had to kill telnet it is a bit of a pain so would like to find
a replacement distro that will run KDE by choice and Gnome if I have
to in a rpm type format for packages etc.

[...]

My kit is on 24/7 for bbs, web & file servers and linking to IBM m/f
so has to be stable AND work with all software including GCC
compilation systems, mysql, oracle, DB2, GnuCobol to name the major products running 24/7.

I used to run mbse under Centos 6.x. I never had a problem with the system, and it moved from being on a real machine to a
VPS without any issues.

The current system runs on Debian 8, and I've not ran into issues either, although I only use mbse now as a FTN hub.




Stephen


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Hi,

On 2016-12-31 22:06:35, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:
about: "Stripping zone seenbys or not":

... so would like to find a replacement distro that will run KDE by
choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format for packages etc.

That sounds as a description of OpenSUSE ! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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Hello Wilfred!

Sunday January 01 2017 13:42, you wrote to me:

Hi,

On 2016-12-31 22:06:35, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:
about: "Stripping zone seenbys or not":

... so would like to find a replacement distro that will run KDE
by choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format for
packages etc.

That sounds as a description of OpenSUSE ! ;)

I did run Suse for a while back in the late 80's or early 90's but got annoyed with all the German in the docs, help files etc when I was using UK and
English in the locate settings etc.

May be time to revisit thanks for the recommendation.

Will want to stick to regular Linux distros and keep clear from BSD or variants. Have enough grief trying to use my Mac Pro using OSX 10.11 and getting to compile a system using Gcc !

Problem with that is I have not found a book that covers in detail using it to program outside the xcode system. At best its a page or two that is very
short on information.


Vince

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Hi,

On 2017-01-01 15:22:04, Vince Coen wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
about: "Sping zone sne seenbys or not":

... so would like to find a replacement distro that will run KDE
by choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format for
packages etc.

That sounds as a description of OpenSUSE ! ;)

I did run Suse for a while back in the late 80's or early 90's

That's a very long time ago! ;)

but got annoyed with all the German in the docs, help files etc when I
was using UK and English in the locate settings etc.

OpenSUSE still has it origins in Germany, but it is an international distribution. And I can't remember seeing any German texts for the as long as I'm using it. (And that is atleast a decade)


Bye, Wilfred.


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On 2016 Dec 31 22:06:34, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

With the issues regarding new users not able to allocate a password so I have had to kill telnet it is a bit of a pain so would like to find a replacement distro that will run KDE by choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format for packages etc.

oh, you want RPMs :( sorry... i was going to suggest kubuntu... KDE is the default WM in it... i don't (yet) know if the mbse installation has a problem on kubuntu, though... i'm actually looking to run it on a ubuntu server install
which means no GUI WM at all...

i can't say that i've had any problems with .debs... i've actually grown to prefer them over the years... i started on redhat and then moved when they started making their changes... never looked back...

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
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