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Skriven 2005-06-10 17:49:25 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
     Kommentar till en text av Michiel Broek (2:280/2802)
Ärende: BinkD and MBSE BBS
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Hello Michiel.

09 Jun 05 20:06, you wrote to me:

 RT>  MB>> Just run binkd as mbse too. Is there any need to use it as
 RT>  MB>> another user?
 RT>>
 RT>> No, just that the native Debian version I have installed, installs
 RT>> and runs as user ftn and group ftn. Figure that un-installing it,
 RT>> and placing a binary

 RT>> that I have compiled myself in /opt/mbse/bin and fiddling with
 RT>> inetd to run it from there, will best serve my system.

 MB> Actually you don't need binkd at all, but that's your choice. I think
 MB> you best compile and install binkd yourself, put the binary in
 MB> /opt/mbse/bin and run it from there. You need to change one setting in
 MB> mbsetup, that is "allow zero byte lockfiles". If I remember, binkd
 MB> writes zero bytes .bsy files in the outbound while mbcico puts the
 MB> owner pid in these lockfiles. Otherwise mbcico will trash the
 MB> lockfiles made by binkd because they look like orphaned lockfiles.

MBSE has a pretty good implementation of BinkP, and mostly it works very well, 
I really like the compression between my system and a Radius system I connect 
to daily, but I have of late been experiencing problems, and I have come to 
the conclusion that the implementation of BinkP in MBSE is not quiet as robust 
as that in BinkD.

What happens on occasion is that I manage to connect to a feed, but file 
downloads do not complete ie. while exchanging mail, not the 20mbyte file 
problem we discussed awhile back, but if I use BinkD to connect to the problem 
feed, it manages to download the files or exchange mail, it just seems to be a 
little more persistent and possibly it does not time out as fast/soon as MBSE.

The quality of my internet connection, leaves a great deal to be desired on 
occasion. For the last 2 days, I have been unable to connect to the 2 systems 
I poll in Europe, my guess is DNS is temporally right royally screwed, last 
week, I could not poll Bob Seaborn or Janice Kracht in the USA for a 24 hour 
period.
In these circumstances niether MBCICO nor BinkD can connect to the system 
affected. This also on occasion happens with my connection to Barry Blackford 
in Zone3, but there are also occasions when his system is down, but this 
happens too often when I know the systems on the other side up and fuctioning.

Internet conditions are not very good here most of the time, but on odd 
occsions it flies ...

 MB> Then you may also need to find out a way that only one of these
 MB> mailers will make the calls.

Well, only problems I have had, is when BinkD exits irregularly, and leaves an 
*.ilo file behind, then MBCICO repeatedly poll the node BinkD was busy with 
before it was stopped, usually because I pressed CTRL-C to exit from BinkD.

I start all polls here manually because I have yet to figure out how to stop 
and start my internet connection which is handled by my IP-COP 
firewall/internet server/gateway box from a script on my BBS system, over the 
network. :-((


 MB> ... GURU: One who knows more jargon than you.

<grin>

Regards,

Russell

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