Hi Alan,

Alan Ianson wrote to Michiel Broek:
AI> Michiel Broek wrote to Alan Ianson:
AI> 
AI> MB> AI> When I installed 83.21 mbtask wouldn't start. Once I added that 
AI> line
AI> MB> AI> it did start just fine. It may be the debian install
script isn't
AI> MB> AI> adding it? You'll be able to see in the logs exactly what 
AI> happened.
AI> MB> 
AI> MB> I did a complete fresh install on a machine and everything went well. 
AI> MB> After that I removed the chatserver entry from /etc/services and then
AI> MB> mbtask crashed during startup. I fixed that and now it starts with
AI> MB> complains about /etc/services, but keeps on running.
AI> 
AI> I just sent you Al_SETUP.log, should be in your inbound. My services
AI> file doesn't seem to get updated but once I add that line then we are
AI> good to go. If mbtask doesn't crash that is likely enough I think, it's
AI> a simple matter to add that line when it's needed.

Your /etc/services already had a fido tcp service, that's why the udp
service isn't added. That's the problem if that machine ever had an old
installation, /etc/services keeps old information.



AI> 

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