Linux-Hams archive - October 1998: Re: loggedin file

Re: loggedin file

Gerd (nwxkckv@paintsandsolvents.com)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:04:44 +0000


Hello Tomi, hello all,

> > > > > var/ax25/node/loggedin:no such file or directory
> > > > >
>
> Node used to create this file if it didn't exist but it seems I have
> broken the feature since. It has gone unnoticed because make install
> should create it. Anyway I'll look into fixing that.
>
>
> The educational message of the day: To create an empty file you use
> "touch". See touch(1).
>
Thank you very much for this hint, sometimes I forget what
treasures are sleeping in my /bin and /sbin directories :-) , anyway,
under DOS, there's a tool with the same name which is actually
only used to change timestamps for files. So I didn't remember
what touch under Linux can do....

73s, Gerd