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  • Two questions

    From Randers@VERT/V1NTAGE to All on Mon Mar 9 07:35:49 2026
    Hi All, again!

    Thanks Digital Man. I just accidentally sent a blank reply, so please disregard the last message! Sorry! Still getting used to the editor.

    Two questions for now:

    This isn't Sync specific but does anyone know the areafix command in fidonet to add all areas? I have tried ALL, +ALL, %+ALL ... I'd like to have all of them but there's too many to do one by one.

    And second question - Sbbsecho (Linux) is giving me an error I can't work out. At the end of the process when it packs outbound netmail, I get a bunch of "error 2 (no such file or directory) opening listpath (test) to search for area (FIDOTEST) description" It gives me that error for 5 different groups (FIDOTEST is the first of them). I can't find any missing directories or files... I am running as root at the moment so it can't be a permission issue? Any ideas?

    Cheers.

    Randers

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Randers on Sun Mar 8 19:37:57 2026
    Re: Two questions
    By: Randers to All on Mon Mar 09 2026 07:35 am

    Two questions for now:

    We already covered this in #synchronet, but just for everyone else's sake:

    This isn't Sync specific but does anyone know the areafix command in fidonet to add all areas? I have tried ALL, +ALL, %+ALL ... I'd like to have all of them but there's too many to do one by one.

    The answer depends on the hub's software in use. Usually, %+ALL works, but a %HELP query should give you more info.

    And second question - Sbbsecho (Linux) is giving me an error I can't work out. At the end of the process when it packs outbound netmail, I get a bunch of "error 2 (no such file or directory) opening listpath (test) to search for area (FIDOTEST) description" It gives me that error for 5 different groups (FIDOTEST is the first of them). I can't find any missing directories or files... I am running as root at the moment so it can't be a permission issue? Any ideas?

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