Re: New binkd setup Linux-Kubuntu 14.04 64b
  By: rick christian to Alan Ianson on Tue Sep 13 2016 06:02 pm

 AI>> Routing will all be done in the tosser. Binkd will just look in your
 AI>> outbound for stuff to send so as long as your tosser has done the
 AI>> right thing your good.

 RC> Well I think that is where there is a glitch now...

With attach mailers like FD netmail routing was all done by the mailer. That is
not the case with BSO mailers like Binkd. The routing is all done by the
tosser.

 RC> Is the JamNNTPD echo good for crashmail? As I've seen it discussed there
 RC> or is LINUX or LINUX_UBUNTU better?????

I think it might be. I think crashmail is used a lot with jamNNTPD, so that
might be a good idea, worth a try anyway.

 RC> Well that doesn't appear to be the case... as I entered a message in
 RC> Golded and then ran crashmail, and it didn't appear to do much of
 RC> anything... 

There may be different options for crashmail to scan for new messages. I'm not
sure though.

 RC> And trying to get it to do a manual poll of the local net host doesn't
 RC> seem to work.. the only way to get that to work is to kill -9 binkd pid
 RC> and then sudo binkd -P1:135/0 binkd.cfg .

You could also try binkd -pP1:135/0 binkd.cfg. That will poll that node then
quit and if you have binkd daemonized or running from inetd it will continue.

 RC> I used the package that is in 14.04 ESR

 RC> sudo apt-get install binkd

 RC> So it starts up automatically when the system does, so I take it this is
 RC> via inetd as I am not seeing anything else...to start it...

At one time my binkd install on debian worked that way. It works well that way
to. I prefer to daemoize binkd and let it watch for stuff that needs to be
sent and listen at the same time.

 RC> And trying to get it to do a manual poll of the local net host doesn't
 RC> seem to work.. the only way to get that to work is to kill -9 binkd pid
 RC> and then sudo binkd -P1:135/0 binkd.cfg .

If binkd is being started by inetd you should still be able to poll as you need
to. That inetd process is just a listener on your binkp port.

I do polls also with -P1:135/0 but I use -p also so binkd quits when it is done
with your outbounds.

 RC> This seemed to be so much easier in the days of DOS! :) ;) :0 I knew FD in
 RC> and out...

Yep, I remember switching from AMA to BSO... good times! :)

... The computer made me do it!
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