Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone is using linux to run bre/fe in interbbs mode?

I am a having some issues with getting the mailer to work right with sending packets.

First problem is that when bre generates the outbound packet it adds a netmail msg to /fido/netmail that refers to a file to attach and that path is from dos land so the paths are all upper case.. so i do some sed to convert it to the linux path which seems to work. However my next issue is that i am not sure if it should be deleteing the attachment file after it sends it out because i still see the file in bre/outbound.

Thanks
-Chris

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I was wondering if anyone is using linux to run bre/fe in interbbs mode?

I am sort of doing so. I am running bre as a door on a dos bbs, but the
mailer (binkd) is running under linux.

First problem is that when bre generates the outbound packet it adds a netmail
sg to /fido/netmail that refers to a file to attach and that path is from dos nd so the paths are all upper case.. so i do some sed to convert it to the lin
path which seems to work. However my next issue is that i am not sure if it s
uld be deleteing the attachment file after it sends it out because i still see
he file in bre/outbound.

I ignore the netmail message created. After the bre maintenance programs
run, I have my DOS BAT file move the created outbound packets from the directory it writes them to into the outbox directory that I have designated
in binkd.cfg for the bre coordinator's bbs. binkd sees them in there and
sends them out.

I think you can do something similar for binkit also.


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Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone is using linux to run bre/fe in interbbs mode?

I am a having some issues with getting the mailer to work right with sending packets.

First problem is that when bre generates the outbound packet it adds a netmail msg to /fido/netmail that refers to a file to attach and that path is from dos land so the paths are all upper case.. so i do some sed to convert it to the linux path which seems to work. However my next issue is that i am not sure if it should be deleteing the attachment file after it sends it out because i still see the file in bre/outbound.

Set the netmail directory to something that won't be written to like "no". Then, manually move the outbound files to your mailbox directory.

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Re: Linux bre interbbs
By: Mike Powell to NO-NAME on Sun Oct 29 2023 09:32 am

I was wondering if anyone is using linux to run bre/fe in interbbs mode?

Yes, here's how I do it. I tactually works quite well but takes a bit of setup.
1. change all directory names for each league you're in to upper case ...
so /sbbs/xtrn/bre000 becomes
/sbbs/xtrn/BRE000
Within each of your league folders, change your ./outbound directory name to ./OUTBOUND
so you have
/sbbs/xtrn/BRE000/OUTBOUND
Then, go into your root directory and sym link your bre league main directories sudo ln -s /sbbs/xtrn/BRE000 .
Then, make sure to change your owner and group to the user / group you run the bbs on
sudo chown nerbbs /BRE000

For some reason, sbbsecho points to the root folder, probably because I'm using a mapped drive in dosemu2 of e:
so my bre000 league is in
e:\bre000
so in Linux, you need to point via a symlink to /BRE000 and since outbound must be capitalized, that's why we need to change it in the /sbbs/xtrn/BRE000 folder as well.
This will toss mail properly every time, even if it takes a bit of setup.
I hope this makes sense and doesn't confuse folks too much. It took a while to figure it out for me. I hope it helps save time for others.

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Re: Linux bre interbbs
By: Martin Kazmaier to No-Name on Sun Oct 29 2023 09:45 am

Thanks Martin,

That is what i ended up doing.. i am still wondering if i have a problem though . The travel times in bre/fe are showing as unaviable even though i see packets coming in and out plus info showing up in bbsinfo. does it normally take a while its been like going on 2 or 3 days now i think. Also i am able to send a message in the game to myself on another board fine.

Thanks
-Chris

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Re: Linux bre interbbs
By: Ner to Mike Powell on Mon Oct 30 2023 06:11 pm

I went to do this however i am running this in docker and / is not backed by a volume so i would have to modify the start script to handle the symlink on start. I ended up just swapping to using filebox style and using batch scripts to move the packets over and assocating the path with the peer link in sbbsecho.

-Chris

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Re: Linux bre interbbs
By: Martin Kazmaier to No-Name on Sun Oct 29 2023 09:45 am

Thanks Martin,

That is what i ended up doing.. i am still wondering if i have a problem though . The travel times in bre/fe are showing as unaviable even though i see packets coming in and out plus info showing up in bbsinfo. does it normally take a while its been like going on 2 or 3 days now i think. Also i am able to send a message in the game to myself on another board fine.

You are running all of the following commands:
bre inbound
bre request
bre recon
bre planetary
bre scores
bre bbsinfo
bre outbound

and in resources.dat, include the lines:

ReconUpdate 2
OldestRecon 1

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Re: Linux bre interbbs
By: Martin Kazmaier to No-Name on Wed Nov 01 2023 02:59 pm

Thanks Martin,

That is what i ended up doing.. i am still wondering if i have a problem though . The travel times in bre/fe are showing as

unaviable

even though i see packets coming in and out plus info showing up

in

bbsinfo. does it normally take a while its been like going on 2 or

3

days now i think. Also i am able to send a message in the game to myself on another board fine.

You are running all of the following commands: bre inbound bre
request bre recon bre planetary

Are there any active FE iBBS games? I saw someone was trying to get one going but I haven't heard back from the coordinator.

I think League 10 has a player, but I don't know if I'd call it active.

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