• Re: Bink D --- HELP!!! Don't know what I'm missing

    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Alprunty on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:11
    Hiya Allen...

    Alprunty wrote to All <=-

    When I run Bink-d I get this. I just want it to poll the filegate to
    know it's working.

    Allen

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    C:\sbbs\binkd>binkd-static.exe binkd.cfg
    20:36 [3700] binkd.cfg: line 18: error in configuration files idoinbsecure: incorrect directory
    Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!
    ! 20:36 [3700] error in configuration, aborting
    Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!

    C:\sbbs\binkd>? 20:36 [3700] C:sbbs

    In all of your cfg inputs dealing with windows path statements, you need to use double \\. Such as:

    Domain fidonet c:\\sbbs\\fido\\outbound 1
    log C:\\sbbs\\binkd\\binkd.log

    Same goes for all your inbound folders as well...

    Plus what version of binkd are you using? You can find out by typing in a CMD window under c:\sbbs\binkd: binkd-static -vv

    Also your version of Windows...


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    My config is as follows.

    domain fidonet C:\sbbs\fido\outbound 1
    domain fido alias-for fidonet
    domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
    address 1:2320/100@fidonet
    sysname "LiveWire BBS"
    location "Louisville, KY"
    sysop "Allen Prunty"
    nodeinfo 300,TCP,BINKP
    connect-timeout 60
    try 10
    hold 600
    send-if-pwd
    log C:\sbbs\binkd\binkd.log
    loglevel 4
    percents
    printq
    backresolv
    inbound C:\sbbs\fido\inbsecure
    inbound-nonsecure C:\sbbs\fido\inbound
    temp-inbound C:\sbbs\fido\incomplete
    minfree 2048
    minfree-nonsecure 2048
    kill-dup-partial-files
    kill-old-partial-files 86400
    kill-old-bsy 43200
    flag C:\sbbs\data\fidoin.now *.pkt *.PKT
    flag C:\sbbs\data\fidoin.now *.su? *.mo? *.tu? *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa? *.SU? *.MO? *.TU? *.WE? *.TH? *.FR? *.SA?
    prescan
    node 1:261/38@fidonet -md filegate.net


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to echicken on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:11
    echicken wrote to Alprunty <=-

    20:36 [3700] binkd.cfg: line 18: error in configuration files idoinbsecure: incorrect directory
    Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!

    Look at those messages for a while, compare them to your config file,
    and you might see a pattern to the output.

    You'll want to either escape your backslashes in the paths in the
    config file, or use slashes (forward slashes) instead, eg: 'c:\\sbbs\\bink\\binkd.log' or 'c:/sbbs/bink/binkd.log'.

    Exactly... :)


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Tony Langdon on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:11
    Tony Langdon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    Bill McGarrity wrote to Alprunty <=-

    Alprunty wrote to echicken <=-

    Re: Bink D --- HELP!!! Don't know what I'm missing
    By: echicken to Alprunty on Fri Apr 22 2016 08:45 pm

    'c:\\sbbs\\bink\\binkd.log' or 'c:/sbbs/bink/binkd.log'.

    Why are we double slashing?

    binkd uses a linux style cfg file which doesn't have the same directory structure as a win based system.,... therefore the double slash when
    using backslashes. Trust us, it works.. :)

    Looks like binkd interprets its config in a similar way to shells such
    as Bask, so the first backslash is an escape character, the second
    tells the parser that the character to read is a backslash. Those of
    us familiar with mixing Windows and Linux will have seen this before.
    For example, when mounting SMB/CIFS shares on a Linux box.

    Yup. The instruction within the the cfg file actually state for WIN systems the couble backslash is needed.


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