Hiya Allen...

Alprunty wrote to All <=-

When I run Bink-d I get this. I just want it to poll the filegate to
know it's working.

Allen

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C:\sbbs\binkd>binkd-static.exe binkd.cfg
20:36 [3700] binkd.cfg: line 18: error in configuration files idoinbsecure: incorrect directory
Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!
! 20:36 [3700] error in configuration, aborting
Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!

C:\sbbs\binkd>? 20:36 [3700] C:sbbs

In all of your cfg inputs dealing with windows path statements, you need to use double \\. Such as:

Domain fidonet c:\\sbbs\\fido\\outbound 1
log C:\\sbbs\\binkd\\binkd.log

Same goes for all your inbound folders as well...

Plus what version of binkd are you using? You can find out by typing in a CMD window under c:\sbbs\binkd: binkd-static -vv

Also your version of Windows...

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My config is as follows.

domain fidonet C:\sbbs\fido\outbound 1
domain fido alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
address 1:2320/100@fidonet
sysname "LiveWire BBS"
location "Louisville, KY"
sysop "Allen Prunty"
nodeinfo 300,TCP,BINKP
connect-timeout 60
try 10
hold 600
send-if-pwd
log C:\sbbs\binkd\binkd.log
loglevel 4
percents
printq
backresolv
inbound C:\sbbs\fido\inbsecure
inbound-nonsecure C:\sbbs\fido\inbound
temp-inbound C:\sbbs\fido\incomplete
minfree 2048
minfree-nonsecure 2048
kill-dup-partial-files
kill-old-partial-files 86400
kill-old-bsy 43200
flag C:\sbbs\data\fidoin.now *.pkt *.PKT
flag C:\sbbs\data\fidoin.now *.su? *.mo? *.tu? *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa? *.SU? *.MO? *.TU? *.WE? *.TH? *.FR? *.SA?
prescan
node 1:261/38@fidonet -md filegate.net

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echicken wrote to Alprunty <=-

20:36 [3700] binkd.cfg: line 18: error in configuration files idoinbsecure: incorrect directory
Cannot open C:sbbinkinkd.log: Invalid argument!

Look at those messages for a while, compare them to your config file,
and you might see a pattern to the output.

You'll want to either escape your backslashes in the paths in the
config file, or use slashes (forward slashes) instead, eg: 'c:\\sbbs\\bink\\binkd.log' or 'c:/sbbs/bink/binkd.log'.

Exactly... :)


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Tony Langdon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Bill McGarrity wrote to Alprunty <=-

Alprunty wrote to echicken <=-

Re: Bink D --- HELP!!! Don't know what I'm missing
By: echicken to Alprunty on Fri Apr 22 2016 08:45 pm

'c:\\sbbs\\bink\\binkd.log' or 'c:/sbbs/bink/binkd.log'.

Why are we double slashing?

binkd uses a linux style cfg file which doesn't have the same directory structure as a win based system.,... therefore the double slash when
using backslashes. Trust us, it works.. :)

Looks like binkd interprets its config in a similar way to shells such
as Bask, so the first backslash is an escape character, the second
tells the parser that the character to read is a backslash. Those of
us familiar with mixing Windows and Linux will have seen this before.
For example, when mounting SMB/CIFS shares on a Linux box.

Yup. The instruction within the the cfg file actually state for WIN systems the couble backslash is needed.


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