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

Re: loggedin file

Gerd (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:55:48 +0000


Hello Richard, 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....
>
> I cant find my last mail about this so possably i sent the example from the
> ./pms/Makefile however ./node/Makefile uses touch one would have thought you
> would have seen it.
Yes, I received this mail, and now I understand the Makefile more
clearly. Anyway, it seems that only a 'make installconf' will create
a /var/ax25/node directory with a loggedin file in it.

Thank you once again, best regards

Gerd