Re: Configuring GoldEd+ Linux
  By: Matt Bedynek to Eric Renfro on Tue Jul 21 2015 08:34 am

 ER>> Properly, those files are actually named agora-agn_bbs.* which have
 ER>> the actual files. It's missing the group. Then of course once those
 ER>> files mentioned above exist, the next time to try to open the
 ER>> message base, it claims it's locked. First time it's just an empty
 ER>> list. Unless I have AreaScan * on which then it makes a whole horde
 ER>> of those sticky-bit files.

 MB> AREADEF SYNCHRO.TEST "" 0 Local SMB e:\ged\smb\smb\msgbase . (R/O)

Sorry, meant to cancel my last post, go and re-verify something, since I had
just realized I had recently wiped my entire message bases (by accident of my
own volition). After I did this to my test message base, I can confirm it
/works/.

It seems the AREAFILE method lacks appending the group to the msgbase, and only
tries the internalcode, failing miserably of course. So it's an actual bug in
GoldEd+ for sure. I'm guessing the reason I'm seeing files with 1411
permissions (-r----x--t) is because it's literally creating a brand new message
base and setting permission bits to 1411.

 MB> That is example for setup of message area in golded.cfg. I would pick area
 MB> you do not care about to test with or at least backup message base files.
 MB> I will be testing what you are doing in 2-4 weeks when I setup Synchonet
 MB> on Linux. 

I'd like to find out more about this. I'm assuming it's in whatever
documentation exists somewhere? Heh. 

And what-of the golded.gel help file that I'm lacking?

 ER>> What was totally missed is why the nodelist portion of golded just
 ER>> completely fails. I provide the NodePath and Nodelist nodelist.999,
 ER>> and it can't use them.

 MB> Now that I think about it, did you compile the nodelist?

 MB> $ gnlnx -C

Aha! I... Didn't realize this was a thing. I guess I was just hoping the days
of compiling nodelists was gone after all these years, but apparently not, not
for ged+ anyway. Nor I guess for Husky Tools project similarly. heh

I kept looking for goldnode, didn't think to occur to me it would be called
gnlnx. :/ 

However, now that that's compiled, when I actually try to use it to type a name
to, it segfaults out leaving still unusable. The nodelist files are compiled
approriately in /binkd/nodelist/goldex.gn{a,l,n} from NodelistPath in the
config.

During compiling it specifically looked all OK, exact filenames shown
accordingly. No errors.

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