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LinFBB 7.0.10 released

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  Released version 7.0.10 of Linfbb. Great news……

Download it at https://ham.packet-radio.net/packet/f6fbb/linux/recent-version/fbb-7.0.10.tar.gz
Source Link  https://sourceforge.net/projects/linfbb/files/fbb-7.0.10.tar.gz/download

Some info from Dave.

Many thanks to Brian (N1URO) for his maintenance scripts contribution and to Paul (G4APL) for his extensive tests and feedback regarding some old bugs and their fixes. Also many thanks to all other sysops using and testing the development version in the SVN repo prior to this release.

Changslog

7.0.10 (Dave van der Locht) Add date 1 Nov 2020
[r187]
- Fixed gateway using wrong FROM callsign with outgoing socket connections.
- Fixed gateway could only use port 1 to 9.
- New 20_epurmess and 20_epurwp maintenance scripts (N1URO).
- Fixed pagination issue with ? command, C (remove paging) didn't work.
- Cleaned obsolete code, fast_fwd was hard set to 1 in init.c but only used 
  in some 'if' statements. 
- Corrected satdoc.c line 384 gcc compiler warning (-Wstringop-overflow)
- Corrected behaviour of /K and /L sysop commands
- Fixed buffer overflow possibility in ibm.c getcurdir()
- Corrected several misleading indentations
- Cleaned code and comments in xfbbd.c
[r188]
- Fixed problem where inbound connections were disconnected after connect.
  with some port types when port in port.sys was higher than 9.
- Commented debugging printf code in the call_nbdos() function.
- Changed version number to 7.0.10.
[r189]
- Set SVN file properties accordingly for executable files.
- Placed autogen.sh script back in the SVN repo.
[r190]
- Fixed gateway J command only could show port 1 to 9 heard lists.
- Fixed mailbox J# command only could handle J1 to J8 (numeric) ports.
- Extended mailbox J# command (letters) a bit.
[r191]
- Detected and corrected some character encoding problems in tnc.c file.
[r192]
- Removed autotool generated files from SVN repo.
[r193]
- Accidentally removed Makefile.am. Placed back into SVN repo.
[r194]
- Fixed filename not exists error when using YAPP download command (YD).
[r195]
- Fixed housekeeping routines crashing on several newer Linux distributions.
- Changed src/Makefile.am, the -fstack-check flag conflicts with
  -fstack-clash-protection which is included by default when GCC is built with
  stack smashing protection (SSP).
- Changed README to reflect correct mailing list e-mail address.
*******************************************************************************

Fbb problem showing .HLP and .ENT file

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Donnie WD1F has some trouble to get the english.hlp and the english.ent files to show up in fbb. He found the solution.

connecting from remote TNC...
cmd:c wd1f-7
*** CONNECTED to WD1F-7
S (H for help) >
rm
There are no such messages (message choice: *).
(1) WD1F BBS (H for help) >
H
{nothing happens}

All the files are there with the right permissions.

root@ks1r:/etc/ax25/fbb/lang# strace -e open -p 2457 
strace: Process 2457 attached 
open("/var/ax25/fbb/inf.sys", O_RDWR)   = 10 
open("/var/ax25/fbb/wp/wp.sys", O_RDWR) = 10 
open("/etc/ax25/fbb/lang/english.ent", O_RDONLY) = 10 
open("/etc/ax25/fbb/lang/english.hlp", O_RDONLY) = 10
Dir of /etc/ax25/fbb/lang
root@ks1r:/etc/ax25/fbb/lang# l 
total 248 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   179 Feb  6 11:29 english.ent 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   179 Feb  6 11:13 english.ent.sample 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62459 Feb  6 11:13 english.hlp 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62459 Feb  6 11:26 ENGLISH.hlp 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   743 Feb  6 11:13 english.inf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12428 Feb  6 11:13 english.txt 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12428 Feb  6 11:26 ENGLISH.txt 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   155 Feb  6 11:13 francais.ent.sample 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51417 Feb  6 11:13 francais.hlp 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   777 Feb  6 11:13 francais.inf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14783 Feb  6 11:13 francais.txt 
root@ks1r:/etc/ax25/fbb/lang#

I found my problem and it wasn’t easy. In case others have this issue…
The issue was: Pressing H would not give me the help file. After getting it working I see I was missing other things as well like lots of the welcome text.

open("/usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb/lang/english.hlp", O_RDONLY) = 8 
fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=62459, ...}) = 0 
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f2bba612000 
read(8, "################################"..., 4096) = 4096 
read(8, "erver menu, and continue from\nth"..., 4096) = 4096 
read(8, "information on one special comma"..., 4096) = 4096 
read(8, "   -  Download a file with AUTOB"..., 4096) = 4096 
read(8, "he current line.  The number can"..., 4096) = 4096 
read(8, "T new in 5.15b\n@@ 9 BGET\n\nComman"..., 4096) = 4096 
close(8)                                = 0 
munmap(0x7f2bba612000, 4096)            = 0 
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET)                   = 0 
read(4, "MemTotal:       32896168 kB\nMemF"..., 999) = 999 
write(3, "\r- Type ? [COMMAND] for the HELP"..., 250) = -1 EMSGSIZE (Message too long)

duckduckgo.com search showed EMSGSIZE (Message too long) had to do with packet sizes allowed. Made me think it may relate to max packet length setting in axports
The fix was:

in /etc/ax25/axports…
name Call speed paclen window desctiption
1 WD1F-1 9600 128 2 144.01 MHz (1200 bps)

I had to set paclen to 255 like this:
1 WD1F-1 9600 255 2 144.01 MHz (1200 bps)

Monitor script F6fbb

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Brain N1URO has written a script to see if fbb is still running.
I saved this script in the fbb directory.
/usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb

Have it saved as “fbbcheck” now it is possible to call it via a cronjob every hour.

Edit the /etc/crontab file and add the following.

15 *    * * *   root    /usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb/fbbcheck

Now, every 15 minutes after the full hour, it is checked whether fbb is still running, otherwise it will be restarted.

Here under the “fbbcheck” script.

#! /bin/sh

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

MYFBB=`ps ax|grep fbb|grep xfbbd|grep sbin|awk '{ print $1 }'`
PID=`ps ax|grep fbb|grep xfbbd|grep sbin|awk '{ print $1 }'`

if [ -z $MYFBB ]
  then
   log_warning_msg "FBB BBS not found running"
   sleep 2
   log_action_msg "Reloading FBB... "
   sleep 2
   /usr/local/sbin/fbb -s -a
   log_daemon_msg "FBB Reloaded" "done"
   log_end_msg 0

exit 1
fi
  log_action_msg "FBB PBBS is running on pid: $PID"
  exit 0

Tnx to Brain N1URO
http://n1uro.ampr.org/

I made a small addition to the script myself. Now I can also see how long fbb has been running and when fbb has been started. (just fun )

#! /bin/sh

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

MYFBB=`ps ax|grep fbb|grep xfbbd|grep sbin|awk '{ print $1 }'`
PID=`ps ax|grep fbb|grep xfbbd|grep sbin|awk '{ print $1 }'`
UPTIME=`ps -p $PID -o %t | tail -1|awk '{ print $1 }'`
START=`ps -p $PID -o lstart=`

if [ -z $MYFBB ]
  then
   log_warning_msg "FBB BBS not found running"
   sleep 2
   log_action_msg "Reloading FBB... "
   sleep 2
   /usr/local/sbin/fbb -s -a
   log_daemon_msg "FBB Reloaded" "done"
   log_end_msg 0

exit 1
fi
  log_action_msg "FBB BBS PI8LAP is running on pid : $PID"
  log_action_msg "FBB BBS PI8LAP is Started on : $START"
  log_action_msg "FBB BBS PI8LAP is running for : $UPTIME dd:hh:mm:ss"
exit 0

Looks like this.

root@pi1lap-base:/usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb# ./fbbcheck
[info] FBB BBS PI8LAP is running on pid : 2573.
[info] FBB BBS PI8LAP is Started on : Sat Sep  2 06:23:02 2017.
[info] FBB BBS PI8LAP is running for : 01:10:44 dd:hh:mm:ss.
root@pi1lap-base:/usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb#

F6fbb port.sys (smtp/pop/nntp)

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With f6fbb it is possible to use the software as smtp, pop and nntp server. Below is a small example of how you can make that possible.

# /usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb/port.sys
# FBB 7.07
#
#
# Number of Com Ports and TNCs (not) including TNC 0
             2            2
#
# Interface 6 = Windows
# Interface 7 = TCPIP
# Interface 8 = TFWin.dll
# Interface 9 = LINUX
#
#Com Interface Adress (Hex)   Baud
  2    9        189C               0
  3    9        189D:189E:77       0
#TNC NbCh Com MultCh   Pacln Maxfr NbFwd MxBloc M/P-Fwd  Mode  Freq
  0   0    0   0        0     0     0     0      00/01   ----  File-fwd.
  1   10   2   0        250   2     4     10     00/60   TUWY  Telnet
  2   4    3   0        250   2     4     10     00/10   SU    Pop/smtp
#
# End of file.
#

If you look at the HEX addresses, the smpt port on 6302 and the pop port on 6301 the nntp port just on 119. Now it is possible to set your mail program and read your mail in your mail package.

Email address comes with one with your packet address (pd9q@pi8lap.#zl.nld.euro)