Subj : BinkD and SRIF
To   : mark lewis
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Sun Sep 06 2015 02:59:08

  Re: BinkD and SRIF
  By: mark lewis to Eric Renfro on Sat Sep 05 2015 09:29 pm

 ML> 05 Sep 15 18:42, you wrote to me:

 ER>>>> I'm running BinkD 1.0.4 on Linux, and I'm trying to find a good
 ER>>>> way to handle SRIF requests, and have no starting point on how
 ER>>>> this would be done.

 ML>>> IIRC, there are some perl or bash scripts to handle FREQs via
 ML>>> binkd... check question 17 in the posted FAQ...

 ER>> Hmmm. Looks like FAQ question 16, not 17. :)

 ML> sounds like you have an old FAQ... i had asked for and someone finally did
 ML> split 16 into two parts, 16 and 17... this because 16 is for /how/ to make
 ML> a request and 17 is for how to /service/ a request... the FAQ is posted at
 ML> least once a month in the BINKD support echo ;)

Probably the FAQ for BinkD 1.0.4, as it was what was on their website directly.

 ML>>> in the mean time, if you are running binkd 1.1a19 or newer, there
 ML>>> should be a bash script named srifreq that you might use... i have
 ML>>> to look back in my bases and see if i can find another one that i
 ML>>> recall being posted in script form... not sure if i locked it to
 ML>>> retain it in the base after the three year retention period or not,
 ML>>> though... but i just looked at the sources for srifreq and that may
 ML>>> be what i'm thinking of having been posted from stas degteff... if
 ML>>> you have a clone or fork of the binkd git repository, you can find
 ML>>> srifreq in the misc directory ;)

 ER>> I'm not running BinkD 1.1 yet, 1.0.4 is exactly the version I'm
 ER>> running as-is now and packaged for CentOS 7.1.

 ML> if you would like a copy of the srifreq file, let me know and i'll send it
 ML> over...

I just downloaded the latest snapshot for binkd 1.1a73, so I'll be checking it
out. I already made an updated .spec file for use with the new alpha, and just
checking it to make sure I have it packaging up everything proper. I'm likely
to upgrade, if it doesn't break anything. Because I'm packing, I can upgrade
and roll back if it does break things, rather easily. 

 ML> as for the versions of binkd, i have a couple of *nix boxen here... one is
 ML> running the packaged binkd for it, another is running a slightly newer
 ML> version from a repo snapshot and a 3rd one actually has a clone/fork of
 ML> the repo and gets a new version when i decide to pull the latest updates
 ML> and compile them... 

Yep. I'm packing everything my BBS runs into RPM packages that I can install
and upgrade/downgrade as needed to maintain them. One of the many reasons I
prefer CentOS/Fedora over Debian/Ubuntu, is the simple .spec file format is
just the best and easiest to maintain. And to me, makes more sense. :)

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