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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