Subj : New binkd setup Linux-Kubuntu 14.04 64b To : rick christian From : mark lewis Date : Tue Sep 13 2016 07:15 pm 13 Sep 16 18:02, you wrote to Alan Ianson: rc> I used the package that is in 14.04 ESR rc> sudo apt-get install binkd rc> So it starts up automatically when the system does, so I take it this is rc> via inetd as I am not seeing anything else...to start it... rc> And trying to get it to do a manual poll of the local net host doesn't seem rc> to work.. the only way to get that to work is to kill -9 binkd pid and then rc> sudo binkd -P1:135/0 binkd.cfg . check your startup script in /etc/init.d or where ever it is located... you might want to change the user that binkd is running as... that will likely also require some other changes for the logging directory as well as the inbound and outbound directories... we had to set one up to run as the same user as synchronet runs as to make it easy for the files to be seen and handled by both sides of the fence... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey .... Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. George Burns --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .