Linux-Hams archive - December 1996: Re: Fbb 7.00b beta for LINUX available

Re: Fbb 7.00b beta for LINUX available

Edson W. R. Pereira (igyfrvq@edi.lv)
Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:58:35 +0000


On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Kyle Rhorer wrote:

> I have a stupid question. Why would a BBS program, which presumably runs
> on a (mostly) unattended machine, require X-windows? It seems rather
> silly to incur the overhead of running X when there's nobody looking at
> the screen. I'm sure there's a logical explanation.
>

Hi Kyle:

The Linux distribution of FBB has a daemon. You can run the deamon by
specifying xfbb -d & at the command line. I have been running the
daemon since friday without any problems, but I have tons of questions
that will probably get answered when the manuals/docs are released. For
instance, I do not know how to interface FBB with the Linux netrom
interface or how to provide a telnet-like section to the BBS.

In any event, we finally have a good BBS that uses the native ax.25 in Linux.

The fun is just beginning!

73,

-- Edson, N1VTN