Re: F6FBB on Debian question

From: Joop Stakenborg (bzrxnep@fedcsc.com)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 22:03:52 EEST

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    Dave Stubbs wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > This may be a dumb question, but I've searched all the docs I can find
    > and don't seem to get anywhere. The FBB documentation mentions
    > INSTALL.SH for setting up initial parameters. I installed FBB using the
    > Debian packages, and I cannot find INSTALL.SH anywhere, nor is it in the
    > file list for the package. The BBS works quite well, as far as
    > accepting NETROM and telnet connections, except that I can't seem to set
    > security levels and actually get SYSOP access. The Documentation
    > mentions that a file called INIT.SYS gets created, but from what I can
    > tell, the /etc/ax25/fbb.conf file seems to have SOME of the contents
    > that are supposed to be in INIT.SYS, and there is no INIT.SYS file.
    >
    > Am I chasing a wild goose here? Or is there some modification in the
    > Debian-packaged version that makes this unneccesary?
    >

    You need to run /usr/sbin/fbb. This is actually a shell script, which
    asks questions and sets up a fbb.conf and port.sys file. Next it runs
    the actual daemon (xffbd). The script is easy to read, see also 'man fbb'.

    > Thanks for your help,
    >
    > Dave
    > VA3BHF

    Joop PG4I
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