From: Wilbert Knol (qqb@datel.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 07:43:14 EEST
Hi Phil and others,
> I think I have configured the various ulist files under /etc/ax25/ correctly.
That's where the config files are. They are not the problem.
What I meant is the file containing the list of captured FBB bulletin
headers. It lives in /var/spool/ax25/<BBS-CALL> or possibly in
/var/ax25/<BBS-CALL> (sorry, can't check).
Just make sure ulistd is permitted to write it, and the mail macro
(spawned by linpac) is entitled to read it, that's all.
> However, I'm still uncertain about the meaning of a free channel.
Channel means session screen (F1...F9).
If you have a QSO running in a session screen, then you can't run the
mail macro from that screen.
>If this refers the the radio channel to the BBS
No, it doesn't.
> almost never free. I have to connect via 2 digipeaters before I can connect
> to the BBS.
You won't get the FBB header boadcasts then, and thus no unproto list.
A connected-mode bulletin browser like LinKT may be better for you.
Incidentally, the path to your home-BBS is set in ~/linpac/macro/init.mac,
if I am not mistaken.
> My version of "The Manual" has devoted four lines to the mail function and
> makes no mention of a free channel.
The program does.
The docs are a little terse, but pretty much all the info is there. I reckon
they are OK. I am sure Radek, who hails from OK-land, would welcome
suggestions for improvements from native speakers of English ;-)
I have dropped out of the arms race and gone back to kernel 2.2.x to
keep my packet radio applications happy.
Wilbert, ZL2BSJ
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