Subj : Re: Synchronet config change
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Thu Mar 07 2024 06:55 am

Hello Rob.

06 Mar 24 12:05, you wrote to me:

 RS> I'm attempting a reply using GoldEd+ here.

 RS> One thing I noticed, the SBBS config points to the parent of the
 RS> Synchronet "control" directory rather than the ctrl directory itself
 RS> (which is normally represnted by the SBBSCTRL environment variable).
 RS> The control directory is not hard-coded to be "ctrl" anywhere, thought
 RS> that is the default/stock configuration that most sysops keep. I would
 RS> recommend that the GoldEd+ config file point to the path of the
 RS> Synchronet "control" directory and not its parent directory. Or read
 RS> this from the SBBSCRL env var.

Currently you may use three different options for Synchronet AreaFile:

1) Path to Synchronet root. And then Golded would assume that config is is ctrl directory.
2) Path to Synchronet control directory.
3) Path to msgs.ini itself.

And also GoldEd assumes that message bases located on the same level as control directory in "data/subs" directory.

I didn't invent that logic. Just added parsing ini in addition to cnf file.

I'm happy to change the way it configured. But I'm not an expert in Synchronet design. Could you please describe how it may be configured? Maybe would be better to parse main config file first and pull necessary directories from there?

Vitaliy

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