[nos-bbs] Latest JNOS Incantation...

[Bill V WA7NWP]

Hello All...

As I mentioned in my note last night, I'm once again making a push to
get JNOS up and running.   For the past few years my JNOS operation
has been sporadic and too often on Windows which is limiting and
fragile.  Now with the addition of MRTG I can no long resist and I'm
going to get a full time system going.

A couple of my design goals may be interesting to the group here.

First and foremost is that I plan to move all the configuration files
to one location.   The current JNOS design of some files in the root
dir, some in ./spool is hard to manage.   With the configured NOS.CFG
file I've been able to move everything so far to a ./etc folder.   I'm
going to see how much of this I can make generic with an external
config file of local information.  Then the setup can be reused by
others.

Secondly - Keeping everything in one directory makes my second step
fairly easy - it's all under SVN source control.   No longer will I
lose the setup and have to recreate it when I move to a different
machine.   It's going to be a simple (I hope) matter of   mkdir -p
jnos/etc; cd jnos/etc ; svn co $SVNPATH/jnos.   that will give me my
local setup and the scripts needed to fetch the source and then
rebuild, (and test - RSN) and install the current executable.

Hooking this to the packet world is the subject of another note...   I
have a local AX25 IP stack (BPQ) hooked to the existing TNC's and a
serial port on the PC for another TNC.   How do I make the best use of
this with JNOS?   Stay tuned...

As I now have a block of real static IP's -- it's going to be
interesting making an attempt to navigate the multiple levels of 44
net bureaucracy and finally become a real IP gateway..   But first -
RF...

73,
Bill - WA7NWP