Re: Issues... always issues..
  By: Digital Man to KK4QBN on Sat Jan 20 2018 14:56:57

 DM> Can you elaborate? So from a command prompt, you typed
 DM> "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/directory/where/libsbbs.so/is"
 DM> and then from the same same command prompt, typed "jsexec" and what
 DM> happened? 

eWell, now you have made me feel very stupid :) it works if I put it in  a
script right before running jsexec (as you just recommended) why are these
export commands not working in my rc or profile (A mistake I am making I
presume) but at least we've gotten somewhere.. and I don't know why it did'nt
cross my mind because I already have the SBBSCTRL path exported in the same
scripts.

 >> also noticed that setting SBBSCTRL is'nt working either,
 >> SBBS has just been forcing it, I've set it in ~.profile ~.bashrc and
 >> even /etc/profile.  I don't know what I've done to scew this up.. all
 >> permissions have been checked, all executables came from a clean build
 >> with a copy over of my ctrl data mods and all other modified stuff.

 DM> "came from" - does that mean the files were copied or moved?

I started from a fresh "vanilla" debian system, installed all the dependencies,
created a user for the bbs to run under and followed the instructions for the
dosemu (CVS) build at http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix. Then copied my back
up ctrl, data, text dirs and modded files, I have done it many times with no
issues.. seems the issue I am having is with basic linux control :) I am not
able to set an evironment variable that will stick.

 DM> Is the user you're running jsxec as, the same user you used to build sbbs
 DM> as? 

yes, I try my best to keep it as simple as possible, I would run it as root but
just don't feel right about it for some reason.

 DM> SCFG doesn't rely on any Synchronet .so files.

I presume that is as good a reason as any.. thanks for the help.. it is a temp
fix for now, will need to go back to school and see why my environment
vairables are not working correctly.

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Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
KK4QBN BBS

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