<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="ydpd14b89d5yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bob,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for the reply and it's good to hear from you again. It's been quite some time. I also read the one from Maiko. I will reply to that one once I have the information.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have JNOS2-MAN.doc (very dated)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">QUOTE:<br><div><div style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;color:#000000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#000000">The rewrite file is used to perform a one-to-one mapping between destination addres</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;color:#000000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#000000">ses as received by NOS and destination addresses as actually used by NOS. Each record within the rewrite file comprises a single line, containing either two or three entries separated by spaces. The first field is the template field; if a destination addre</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;color:#000000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#000000">ss matches the template, it is replaced by the second field. The third field, which is optional, is the single letter "r", which, if present, tells NOS to rescan the rewrite file, using the new destination address to attempt to match against the templates.</span></div></div></div><div>END QUOTE</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have done some more testing. What I have since found was causing it is having the "r"escan in the following lines:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>*.noam $1.noam</div><div>*.na $1.noam</div><div>*.usa $1.usa.noam</div><div>*.us $1.usa.noam</div><div>*.ca.usa $1.ca.usa.noam</div></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I haven't narrowed it down further, but it could be any combination of these, or I could be way off base.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Not to figure out why JNOS isn't emptying the spool/mqueue directory.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydpd14b89d5signature"><div><br></div><div>73 de Ray W6RAY</div><div> Visalia, CA DM06ii</div></div></div>
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On Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:28:43 PM PDT, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty <bob@tenty.ca> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">My comment about the 'r' in the rewrite file, it depends what W6RAY is rewriting. It maybe needed in some situations,<br></div><div dir="ltr">for instance for messages received by nntp . Things like: *!* $2$1 r but for normal forwarding traffic received over<br></div><div dir="ltr">telnet and ax25 axudp / axip links with rewriting to public / private areas you don't need them. In the past I was using<br></div><div dir="ltr">them more but it makes the rewrite file more complicated and can easily go wrong.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Boudewijn VE3TOK<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 9/18/26 13:27, <a href="mailto:maiko@pcsinternet.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">maiko@pcsinternet.ca</a> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Sorry for the delay, sick, sailing, and so on ...<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> On 2026-09-16 22:57, Ray Quinn wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> More than a week ago, I moved JNOS (KI6QCY) (and LinBPQ, W6RAY) from a<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> 32-bit Debian 10 to a 64-bit Debian 13.Over the past week or so ...<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> The first thing I am thinking is you should probably rebuild your index<br></div><div dir="ltr">> files, they are binary in nature, 32 bit vs 64 bit, that's trouble :]<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> I edited my rewrite file and removed the 'r' characters. JNOS ran just<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> fine, didn't crash and it forwarded the messages. I then exited JNOS<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> and ran the backtrace, which showed no errors.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> If the 'r' was always there, then removing it should not be the solution.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> My question is this: Is the 'r' character necessary<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> as in: *.noam $1.noam r ?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> I would have to read up on that, sorry Ray, if it's one of those legacy<br></div><div dir="ltr">> or default rewrite that you see everywhere, one forgets the purpose I<br></div><div dir="ltr">> suppose, I am very guilty of that.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Did you recompile your JNOS binary on the 64 bit system ?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Maiko / VE4KLM<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> _______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">> nos-bbs mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="mailto:nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">There is nothing permanent except change<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"> Heraclitus<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>nos-bbs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org</a><br></div>
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