Subj : How Linux and Windows installs differ
To   : All
From : McDoob
Date : Tue Dec 14 2021 07:41 pm

Hi, All!

It took me entirely too long to figure out why my events were failing! And it
all came down to exactly two characters in the command line: "./"

In linux, for some obscure reason, most executables (definitely mutil and
fidopoll) need to be preceded by the current dir, or "./" (ie ./mutil and
../fidopoll).

Recently, I've gotten into the (bad) habit of accessing Mystic config from
the SysOp menu. I tried several times to update my events after figuring
out the above difference. And there began my second "D'oh!" moment...because
McDoob is not a user in the linux OS. Therefore, McDoob did not have
permission to alter the event configs!

That took too long for me to figure out, too. Q_Q

But, eventually, I did!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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