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- Q: Is there any documentation for ifgate and ifcico?
- A: No, sorry. Only README files and example configuration file. And
- this FAQ list, of course.
-
- Q: Will ifcico work in multiline environment?
- A: Hopefully yes, though the mechanism of skipping locked files is
- not well tested.
-
- Q: How do I create a nodelist?
- A: You need not. Take a fresh nodelist from a nearby FidoNet node.
-
- Q: How do I compile the nodelist?
- A: With ifindex program. You also need to keep the original nodelists.
-
- Q: How do I compile a nodediff?
- A: Try nledit from the misc/nledit directory.
-
- Q: The diffs to getty_ps do not fit, and besides that, ifcico cannot
- originate call while uugetty is active on the dialin line. Any ideas?
- A: Take getty_ps version 2.0.7c, versions prior to 2.0.7b are unusable.
-
- Q: When I start ifcico without parameters, it displays banner and does
- noting. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-\ etc. do not help. What's on?
- A: This is correct behavior in slave mode. To make outgoing calls, start
- it with "-r1" parameter. If you unintentionally started it in slave
- mode, just wait several minutes, and it will finish.
-
- Q: Do directories in config file need ending "/" ?
- A: No. But it won't do any harm.
-
- Q: How do I create alias in the database?
- A: You need not. It is created automatically as mail goes from Internet
- to FidoNet.
-
- Q: How do I monitor as the things happen?
- A: tail -f /usr/local/lib/fnet/iflog
-
- Q: How do I tell ifcico to poll a node?
- A: Either create an empty .flo or start ifcico with the node address in the
- command line.
-
- Q: How do I arrange a coninious poll of a node until a successfull session
- occurs?
- A: #!/bin/sh
- while :
- do
- if /usr/local/lib/fnet/ifcico f123.n456
- then
- exit 0
- fi
- sleep 30
- done
-
- Q: How do I send a message with just this specific AKA in the From:?
- A: Either modify your config file to make it primary address, or forge
- customized "From:" header in the RFC-822 message before feeding it
- to MTA (or ifmail).
-
- Q: When I run ifunpack (iftoss) packets disapper but nothing is passed
- to sendmail/rnews. What's on?
- A: You probably specified non-zero debug level. Your mail/newsbatches
- are now in /tmp/ifmail directory.
-
- Q: Why doesn't ifmail check whether it can deliver the mail locally?
- A: ifmail is not an MTA, it is only a gateway! Iftoss _has_ to do some
- smart routing work, to be able to use alias database, but generally
- this is your MTA's responcibility to distinguish local addresses.
-
- Q: Why doesn't ifmail accept addresses in fido-format (2:283/315.38) ?
- A: Because.
-
- Q: Why do I get a warning about the out-of-date nodelist index so often?
- A: Nodelist index should be rebuilt if any of the source nodelists *OR*
- any of the config files is younger than the index.
-
- Q: When ifcico receives a file request, does it perform a subdirectory
- seach?
- A: No. But remember that in UN*X files may have more than one link.
-
- Q: How do I create a file request?
- A: Make an FTS-0006 compatible file in the outbound directory with the
- name XXXXYYYY.req, where XXXX is a hexadecimal net number, and YYYY
- is a hexadecimal node number. In the simplest case, it would contain
- just file names (one at a line).
-
- Q: How do I specify the "To:" field in the news article to be passed to
- FidoNet?
- A: Use "X-Comment-To:" header (or simply "Comment-To:")
-
- Q: How do I get rid of the RFC headers converted to that silly kludges
- in the FidoNet messages?
- A: You cannot. The author insists on *always* keeping the header
- information. There is a Good Reason to keep them, trust me!
-
- Q: How do I achieve default FidoNet routing - either "direct" or "host",
- "hub", "zonegate" routing?
- A: Generally, this is MTA's responcibility. ifroute program, that can
- be used as a "queryprogram" in Smail, is under development.
-
- Q: When I link ifcico, I get an unresolved reference: yy???.o. Any hints?
- A: Try adding "-ll" (or "-lfl" if you are using flex) to the LIBS in the
- CONFIG file.
-
- Q: All articles I receive from my FidoNet uplink are routed back (as I see
- in the cnews log, and in the cnews "togo" file). Why?
- A: Because in the cnews "sys" you specified the site name in a format
- other than recommended "fNNN.nMMM" (or "pLLL.fNNN.nMMM").
-
- Q: Is it possible to to have FidoNet correspondents look like internettes
- in Internet, i.e. have "From: User.Name@Inter.net.domain" instead of
- "From: User.Name@pNN.fMM.nLL.zX.something.org"?
- A: In many cases this can be done with the "domtrans" configuration verb.
-
- Q: After calling a Fido node I find these lines in iflog:
- "tcsetattr(0,TCSADRAIN,clocal) return -1 \n\terrno=5 : I/O error"
- Should I be worried about these errors?
- A: No. On some systems, kernel does not allow any tty I/O after hangup,
- thus preventing ifcico from resetting the modem after call.
-
- Q: On SCO UNIX, ifcico cannot obtain device for dialout. What's on?
- A: Probably this is a permission problem creating a LCK file: either
- make /usr/spool/uucp world-writable or make uucico owned by uucp.
-
- Q: Will ifmail ever run on MS/DOS?
- A: No.
-