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  • SBBS Installation questio

    From Robert Wolfe@VERT/KLYNTAR to RICKV on Fri Feb 6 12:47:00 2026
    I have been wondering, on a new installation of Synchronet on Linux, do you

    it's easier to use with the symlinks, IMO.

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  • From RickV@VERT to Robert Wolfe on Fri Feb 6 15:51:47 2026
    Hello Robert!

    17 Apr 70 14:06, you wrote to me:

    I have been wondering, on a new installation of Synchronet on
    Linux, do you

    it's easier to use with the symlinks, IMO.

    My system is setup with them, but would you tell me why you feel that way? I'm just trying to learn a bit more about that.


    Thanks,
    RickV


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  • From Robert Wolfe@VERT/KLYNTAR to RICKV on Sat Feb 7 07:38:00 2026
    My system is setup with them, but would you tell me why you feel that way?
    I

    well for an old guy like me it's easier not yo have to remember where everything is stored and not havingto set environment variables each
    time i wanted to start sbbsctrl.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Robert Wolfe on Sat Feb 7 13:01:28 2026
    Re: SBBS Installation questio
    By: Robert Wolfe to RICKV on Sat Feb 07 2026 07:38 am

    My system is setup with them, but would you tell me why you feel that way?

    well for an old guy like me it's easier not yo have to remember where everything is stored and not havingto set environment variables each time i wanted to start sbbsctrl.

    The message you were replying to was about using symlinks in Linux, though sbbsctrl is for Windows..? But either way, you shouldn't have to set environment variables every time you start sbbsctrl. In Windows, you can go to the system configuration and go to the environment variables from there and add any environment variables you want to be set permanently. Once you close out of those dialogs, the new environment variables will go into effect.

    In Linux, at least for anything running under Bash, you can set environment variables in your .bashrc file and/or .bash_profile .

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  • From Robert Wolfe@VERT/KLYNTAR to NIGHTFOX on Sat Feb 7 20:17:00 2026
    The message you were replying to was about using symlinks in Linux, though s

    In Linux, at least for anything running under Bash, you can set environment

    sbbsctrl is in the linux version, too. in the exec directory, last time
    i ran synchronet under linux.

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