From: Wilbert Knol (wsxm@mail.dy.fi)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 03:31:35 EEST
> I have found that Linpac misbehaves badly (crashes often) as I was warned
> that it would when used with kernel version 2.4. Interestingly, I have never
> suffered a crash when using Linkt or the bare ax25 utilities.
If you are running LinPac from a start-up script that also starts ulistd (the
application that captures FBB broadcasted bulletin headers), you may
find that ulistd is the culprit. Try hashing it out.
>
> Anyway, when attempting to run Linpac's mail function I am presented with
> this message:
>
> "This channel is not free. Mail needs free channel for connecting BBS. Run
> mail on some not connected channel" [sic]
Correct. You need to run the ':mail' macro on a free channel, as per
docs. Else the mailer won't be able to download bulletins.
> This message is generated by the BBS (FBB) and makes no sense to the
> sysop either.
Not surprising. It is in fact a LinPac message.
> If I run mail when I'm not connected then a mail window is displayed with a
> menu underneath. However, none of the menu options function; help included.
Make sure LinPac has permission to read/write to the mail directory, not
just you personal one, but also to the bulletin file under (if memory serves
me right) /var/ax25/<BBS-callsign>. This is mentioned in the docs.
Kernel 2.4.3 appears to be quite unstable with AX25 (both modules and
compiled-in: freeze-o-rama)
Moving back to 2.2.19
Wilbert, ZL2BSJ
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