• NNTP setup guide?

    From Sampsa Laine@2:250/7 to All on Thu Dec 1 01:40:00 2016
    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Sampsa Laine on Thu Dec 1 07:54:50 2016
    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Thu Dec 1 12:55:48 2016

    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Shawn Highfield on Thu Dec 1 13:51:33 2016
    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Thu Dec 1 14:43:48 2016

    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Shawn Highfield on Thu Dec 1 16:35:47 2016
    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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  • From Sampsa Laine@2:250/7 to Andrew Leary on Fri Dec 2 16:25:00 2016
    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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  • From Sampsa Laine@2:250/7 to Andrew Leary on Fri Dec 2 17:30:00 2016
    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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  • From Dave Vandermeer@1:249/275 to Sampsa Laine on Fri Dec 2 18:19:33 2016

    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Sat Dec 3 16:02:22 2016
    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Tue Dec 6 13:36:18 2016
    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Shawn Highfield on Tue Dec 6 23:23:53 2016
    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Shawn Highfield on Wed Dec 7 01:56:22 2016
    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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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Andrew Leary on Wed Dec 7 08:23:02 2016
    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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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Nicholas Boel on Wed Dec 7 10:16:02 2016

    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Fri Dec 9 10:58:18 2016

    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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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Andrew Leary on Thu Dec 29 15:07:00 2016
    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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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Vince Coen on Thu Dec 29 10:21:48 2016
    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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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Nicholas Boel on Thu Dec 29 17:52:47 2016
    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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  • From Tony Comandini@2:250/5 to Vince Coen on Thu Dec 29 20:22:42 2016
    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Vince Coen on Thu Dec 29 16:46:46 2016
    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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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Andrew Leary on Fri Dec 30 00:27:00 2016
    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Vince Coen on Fri Dec 30 09:15:05 2016
    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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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.3 to Andrew Leary on Fri Dec 30 12:55:44 2016

    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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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Shawn Highfield on Fri Dec 30 18:10:44 2016
    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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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Andrew Leary on Sat Dec 31 22:06:35 2016
    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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  • From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to Vince Coen on Sun Jan 1 22:29:20 2017

    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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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Vince Coen on Sun Jan 1 13:42:02 2017
    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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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun Jan 1 15:22:04 2017
    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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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Vince Coen on Sun Jan 1 17:54:28 2017
    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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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Vince Coen on Sun Jan 1 02:54:42 2017

    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...

    )\/(ark

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