Subj : Re: Issue installing
To   : All
From : Chad Adams
Date : Fri Nov 24 2017 10:11 am

That should have said untarred, not untested. Autocorrect. 

I'm starting to this this build is either bad, or doesn't work on ubuntu
(which I doubt since others have run it on Ubuntu, and Debian variants)



On 04:09 24/11 , Chad Adams wrote:
>No on running it from /home/cadams
>
>I copied the gzip file from www.bbbs.net downloads for intel Linux. Untested
>into user cadams home sir. See pwd command. Extracted. Ran both as local user
>and with sudo. File or directory error as before.
>
>Running Ubuntu 16.04 server.
>
>
>Output
>
>
>bbbs/menus/editmenu.xg
>bbbs/menus/rmodmini.gr
>bbbs/menus/precreg
>bbbs/menus/mainmens.xg
>bbbs/menus/editmini.gr
>bbbs/menus/msg.www
>bbbs/menus/prereg.3
>bbbs/menus/postreg.1
>bbbs/menus/huntmenu.gr3
>bbbs/menus/fil4mens.gr
>bbbs/menus/mainmenu.xg
>bbbs/menus/dirlist.www
>bbbs/menus/bbbshelp.3
>bbbs/bbbs
>bbbs/inet.bbb
>bbbs/bbbstxt
>file_id.diz
>cadams@irc:~$ ls
>bbbs          dead.letter  find.sh  roundcubemail-1.3.3
>bbbs_lii.tar  file_id.diz  mail     roundcubemail-1.3.3.tar
>cadams@irc:~$ cd bbbs
>cadams@irc:~/bbbs$ pwd
>/home/cadams/bbbs
>cadams@irc:~/bbbs$ ./bcfg4 0
>-bash: ./bcfg4: No such file or directory
>cadams@irc:~/bbbs$ sudo ./bcfg4 0
>[sudo] password for cadams:
>sudo: unable to execute ./bcfg4: No such file or directory
>cadams@irc:~/bbbs$
>
>
>
>On 03:06 24/11 , Nicholas Boel wrote:
>>Hello Chad,
>>
>>On Fri Nov 24 2017 07:59:18, Chad Adams wrote to All:
>>
>> CA> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 1.2M Jan 27  2007 bbbs
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.5K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.001
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 9.9K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.002
>> CA> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams  48K Jan 27  2007 bbbsd
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   58 Dec 24  1999 bbbs.key
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  23K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  25K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt1
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt2
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt3
>> CA> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 212K Jan 27  2007 bcfg4
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  20K Jan 28  2007 brobo.wht
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 2.4K Jan 28  2007 colors.bbb
>> CA> drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Jan 28  2007 feelings
>> CA> drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 htdocs
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.0K Jan 28  2007 inet.bbb
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 6.7K Jan 28  2007 LICENSE.txt
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   82 Dec 24  1999 login.bbb
>> CA> drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams  12K Jan 28  2007 menus
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   34 Dec 24  1999 _mg
>> CA> drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 misc
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  601 Dec 24  1999 README.txt
>> CA> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 7.2K Jan 27  2007 ripc
>> CA> drwxr-xr-x 3 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 25  1999 scripts
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 608K Dec 24  1999 sysop.gui
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 617K Dec 24  1999 sysop.htm
>> CA> -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 626K Dec 24  1999 sysop.txt
>> CA> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$ ./bcfg4 0
>> CA> -bash: ./bcfg4: No such file or directory
>> CA> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$
>>
>>You could try one of two things:
>>
>>Try running bcfg4 with sudo, ie: "sudo ./bcfg4 0" (just as a test). If this
>>works, then below would most likely apply.
>>
>>Try copying the bbbs directory to /home/cadams and running these there
without
>>sudo and as owner cadams (again as a test). You may not be able to
own/execute
>>with other users besides root in your /var directory. In Jeff's post, he
>>mentioned having the archive extracted in /var/opt, but he's actually
>executing
>> these files from /home/bbbs in which everything there is owned by bbbs:bbbs,
>>if I read correctly.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Nick
>>
>>... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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>>
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