Re: Raspberry PI synchronet problems
  By: KK4QBN to Denn on Thu Feb 15 2018 03:04 pm

 >   Re: Raspberry PI synchronet problems
 >   By: KK4QBN to Denn on Thu Feb 15 2018 14:43:43
 >
 >  KK> like I said.. even though I have set these vairables up like ALL FAQS
 >  KK> have shown me to, SBBS still cannot pick the env var up.. under debian.
 >
 > I even tried what was suggested in the wiki
 >
 > SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl && export SBBSCTRL and still:
 >
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:/sbbs/exec$ ./runsbbs

What's in "runsbbs"?

 > [sudo] password for kk4qbn:
 >
 > Synchronet Console for Linux  Version 3.17a  Copyright 2016 Rob Swindell
 >
 > !SBBSCTRL environment variable not set, using default value: /sbbs/ctrl
 >
 >
 > this is in ~/.profile ~/.bash.profile AND in the script I use to run the
 > SBBS console app. so the env var is actually set in the same term sbbs is
 > being run in RIGHT before it is being run and still don't work.
 >
 > to make SCFG work right I either have to run /sbbs/exec/scfg /sbbs/ctrl
 > or cd on /sbbs/ctrl and run ../exec/scfg
 >
 > it's crazy.. it should be working but will not..

Sounds like a problem with your script. What if you just type this (no script):
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl && /path/to/scfg
or
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl && /path/to/sbbs
?

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