Subj : Polling - Still not a solution
To   : rick christian
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Oct 22 2016 10:56 am

Hi! rick,

On 10/21/2016 07:52 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> FYI, I'm running a binkD 1.1a-94 thingy as a point on my Xubuntu
 PQ>> 14.04

 rc> I don't think the version really has much to do with it...as I had the
 rc> line listed here of binkd -nP.... working when I set up my setup for
 rc> testing.. now that I changed to real node number which was the only line
 rc> I changed, it wants to have another hissy fit...

It really starts to sound like binkD has a particular hate for you. Maybe you 
should try Qico?  I haven't but it's an option I'm thinking of trying.  I have 
five systems using some version or other of binkD: the point on X'u; another 
point running 1.0a-550 on my U'u 10.04 LTS; one VirtualBox (AKA vBox) running 
0.94 IIRC; and, two vBox PCs running 1.0a-550... all compiled locally.

The exercise for me to compile binkD is nearly ingrained into my DNA. It's 
piss-easy with the instructions provided in the various source archives.  I 
have even compiled late-model versions and never used them on some vBox PCs, 
since they insist on providing non-existent IPv6 support and prefer to 
extinguish themselves rather than run in an IPv4-only environment.  I call them 
PITA versions.

Notwithstanding all of the above I have to say that all of my binkD installs 
enjoy moving actual mail, being fed by a BSO-capable tosser. OTOH, these days I 
like to config filebox options for important link systems... just for kicks

My two point systems only have binkD front ends; no other software! They fit 
into what I call my 'stargate' network.  You do know what a stargate is, don't 
you... one dials up an address on the DHD and then walks through the stargate.  
By the workings of some voodoo & wizardry one then gets disgorged from the 
connected startgate on the other end of the wormhole.

Same thing with filebox configurations: dump stuff into an outbound filebox and 
it disappears into the ether, to arrive at the destination linked FTN system.  
If you could digitize a chunk of "concreta excreta" then even that would work 
with a filebox.

Short version: if the command-line arguments aren't working for you, then try 
an outbound filebox config.  Caveat emptor: it gets messy moving mail this way, 
and is not normally recommended (as it requires a tosser that is able to drop 
mail packets or bundles into the filebox _without_ the BSO file).

 rc> As for a new version I've surgically altered the DEB for the last
[ ...trimmed... ]
 rc> removed must have some sort of change...like I said I don't have the
 rc> time to dig through that corpse...

Whatever.  I'm out of breath, and need another smoke.  ;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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