-=> Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity on 02-22-17 16:53 <=-

Hiya Nick...

 Ac> On Wed Feb 22 2017 14:39:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to Accession:

 Ac>> So then the problem seems to be when the file is created. Is
 Ac>> something else touching that file besides sbbsecho?

 BM> Yes, but last night instead of the 5 or 6 errors I was getting, there
 BM> was only two so I isolated those and did a chmod as well.

 Ac> chmod most likely isn't needed at all, since sbbsecho creates those
 Ac> files with workable permissions. It's most likely something being ran
 Ac> (whether it be sbbsecho or smbutil) was accidentally used by root at
 Ac> one point, or binkd was accidentally ran as root once or something..
 Ac> but chown should probably fix this

 Ac> at some point.

 Ac> Unfortunately you'll probably have to go through and make sure your
 Ac> entire sbbs

 Ac> directory is owned by the "pi" user and whatever group it belongs to
 Ac> for things

 Ac> to work properly. Rather than looking everywhere with "ls -alh" you can
 Ac> simply run "chown -R . /home//sbbs/*" without
 Ac> quotes. If binkd is not under your sbbs heirarchy, you probably want to
 Ac> do the same for that directory as well.

 Ac>> A crontab created by the specific user, and not root.. correct?
 Ac>> Meaning you did

 Ac>> "crontab -e" as the user you wish to run as (with no sudo).

 BM> Yes, no sudo. it's under Pi

 Ac> I take it "Pi" is your user? Is that what you login with? Or is it
 Ac> "alarmpi" or

 Ac> "pi" or .. I'm not sure what your actual user is.

 BM> OK.. let me check that tonight to see if there are any further issues.

 Ac> Ok.

 BM> I'll fine tune it once I get this issue resolved.  First play on the
 BM> BIG field then downsize.. LOL!!

 Ac> Permissions and ownership have always been a pain in the ass. I
 Ac> eventually just

 Ac> ran everything as root, since it's only a Rpi, and it only contains BBS
 Ac> related

 Ac> stuff. If some retard really wants to try to guess my (quite) long root
 Ac> password, they can have at it. :)

 BM> Appreciate your help...

 Ac> No problemo. Besides the current development of software I use here,
 Ac> this is one of the very few things keeping interest in the hobby these
 Ac> days. :)

OK... I modified all scripts for now to do a chown as there were still some
bundles being created by sbbsecho as root.  I will see tonight once the cron
runs.

Isn't this fun!! lol!!

Thank God I still ahve a full head of hair...


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Bill

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