Re: Executables for Docker
  By: Deon to Digital Man on Wed Oct 17 2018 12:58 pm

 >   Re: Executables for Docker
 >   By: Digital Man to Deon on Tue Oct 16 2018 06:51 pm
 >
 >  DM> Re: Executables for Docker
 >  DM> By: Deon to Digital Man on Wed Oct 17 2018 01:30 am
 >
 >  >> OK, this is problematic. I found references to SBBSEXEC on th wiki
 >  >> but it doesnt seem to do anything.
 >
 >  DM> It is optional and usually not necessary.
 >
 >  >> IE: I build with SBBSEXEC set, and I run with it
 >  >> set (it points to /opt/sbbs/exec), however, I see in the logs it is
 >  >> look for everything in /opt/sbbs/data/exec - which I guess is
 >  >> calculated from '$SBBSCTRL/../exec'?
 >
 >  DM> I don't think there's any behavior that needs to change, but if you do,
 >  DM> please elaborate.
 >
 > Here is what I'm trying to do. The "Application" can live anywhere - I'm
 > choosing to install it in /opt/sbbs (so it is from /opt/sbbs, I run the make
 > install after downloading the makefile from here).
 >
 > Once the build is complete, in /opt/sbbs I have the sbbs "application" files
 > in /opt/sbbs/exec (and standard web pages in ./web, doors in ./xtrn)..
 > Everything else in /opt/sbbs is considered "configuration" (how SBBS works)
 > or "data" (message, files, menus, etc)... I want to move those files to be
 > under /opt/sbbs/data/{node1,node2,ctrl,text,mods...}.

Why? So then you'd have /opt/sbbs/data/data/... seems potentially confusing.

 > I set SBBSCTRL to /opt/sbbs/data/ctrl, and with PATH set to /opt/sbbs/exec
 > "scfg" works no problems. However, when I start sbbs /opt/sbbs/exec/sbbs, it
 > starts looking for stuff in /opt/sbbs/data/exec. Now the kludge fix would be
 > to symlink that back, but I would rather fix it properly. (I have
 > executables looked for in /opt/sbbs/exec.) I thought SBBSEXEC would enable
 > that but it appears to not be effective.
 >
 > Does this make sense?

The path to the exec directory (and others) is configured in
SCFG->System->Advanced Options. The default (for exec) is "../exec", relative
to the ctrl directory. I suggest you leave these alone and just use the
standard sbbs directory tree layout, so you'd have (for your examples of
installing in /opt/sbbs):

/opt/sbbs/exec
/opt/sbbs/ctrl
/opt/sbbs/data
/opt/sbbs/text
/opt/sbbs/node1
etc.

                                            digital man

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