Hello Dan.

14 Apr 09 12:45, you wrote to me:

 RT>> The page makes a few assumptions, firstly that you are reasonably
 RT>> familiar  with the command line in Linux/FreeBSD, secondly that
 RT>> you can compile source  code, and have gcc/g++ installed,
 RT>> thirdly, that you know how to change from  normal user to root
 RT>> user to install the

 DC> Getting to ROOT is a problem.  I pretty new to linux.

Okay,

First, you can log in as root with root's password, if your distro still 
allows this, or you can type "sudo command" and when asked,
supply your own 
password, or you can type either su or su - and then enter root's password ...


 DC> They say they are.  The permissions seem to be set properly.  At one
 DC> attempt, I got REXL to try a mail run.  It didn't go anywhere, as I
 DC> haven't been able to run rexcfgl.

I create a directory "irex" in the home directory of the user
that runs the 
rest of the FidoNet system, in my case usually "mbse" and group
"bbs"
I unzip the irexl zip file using "unzip -L irexl229.zip" in the
irex directory

Then change ownership of all files as follows;

chown mbse:bbs /opt/mbse/irex

chmod + rwx /opt/mbse/irex/irexl
chmod + rwx /opt/mbse/irex/irexcfgl

This should make both these files execuatble ...

or you can select these files in "mc" and then press F9 then
select "Files" 
option on the menu bar, then select chown/chmod on  the drop down menu ... , 
this might be easier ...

If irex complains about a missing "termcap" file copy the one in the  irex 
directory to /etc/ ...

Also I have found that irex does not like being called from the path, and the 
only way to run it is to change to the irex directory, and then run it ... , I 
don't understand why this is so, ...

 RT>> You can use this e-mail address to get further clarification ...

 RT>> "rtiedt-{at}-telkomsa_._net"

 DC> I link I need to lear a lot more linux!  Most of the new programs I
 DC> have added come as install TAR or GSZ

It is not the "Linux way" but the way Charles chose to package
the program ... 


Russell

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