Subj : Gentoo fidonet overlay
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Wed Sep 28 2011 10:33 pm
Hello Nicholas!
12 Sep 2011 20:01, Nicholas Boel wrote to Benny Pedersen:
>> suggestions on /etc/conf.d/binkd and /etc/init.d/binkd why not just use
>> /etc/xinet.d/binkp ?
NB> Frankly, I've never looked into it. I don't run xinetd over here.
NB> Though I did make a successful /etc/init.d/binkd using start-stop-daemon.
NB> It works, and I'm not thoroughly informed on ivp6 yet, so I really have no
NB> reason to have that enabled. Honestly, I don't really know what it does or
NB> how it works yet. But someday. :)_
try testing updated binkd now, hope its more perfect now then before, bugs tell
me :=)
>> i think about USE flags to enable disable things in configure, but also
>> to n make it bloated with to much possilibies in not working config
i made this now
NB> You could. But then again, I don't even use a "USE" variable in
NB> /etc/make.conf right now. I used to have one that was 1000 characters long
NB> with a desktop environment.
he its helping not to have selected a desktop profile on a server :)
and not use a server profile for desktopping
NB> I'm not really into that anymore.
good :)
NB> The BBS machine is a nice new Gentoo install with syslog-ng, logrotate,
NB> vixie-cron, and a dhcp client. That's about it besides my prerequisites
NB> for my BBS software,
okay that was also bit of my plan with fidonet overlay, to keep it simple to
have a gentoo install with fidonet
NB> the software itself, and binkd. I'm trying to keep it minimal this time
NB> around. I have an i5 with multiple VMs for toying around with whatever I
NB> want.
please do and report any fault i have made in latest binkd
NB> Either way, the original binkd tarball compiles fine with no
NB> requirements,
if it did not its a upstream bug
NB> USE flags, or anything else for that matter. And I'm totally fine with
NB> that. :)
----- binkd.ebuild begins -----
[I] net-fido/binkd [1]
Available versions: 1.0-r561{tbz2} {-aso -bwlim bzip2 -doc -ntlm -perl
-proxy zlib}
Installed versions: 1.0-r561{tbz2}(22:28:42 09/28/11)(-aso -bwlim -bzip2
-doc -ntlm -perl -proxy -zlib)
Homepage:
http://happy.kiev.au/
Description: Binkd daemon for ftn over ip
[1] "fidonet" /var/lib/layman/fidonet
----- binkd.ebuild ends -----
me too :)
Regards Benny
... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)
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