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)