Unable to acquire network semaphore: /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet/networkb.bsy


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Unable to acquire network semaphore: /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet/networkb.bsy

delete the file.

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Unable to acquire network semaphore:
/opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet/networkb.bsy

I did and the error still pops up.


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On the github page of WWIV, look for the error corrected in the source relating to not being able to read FTN's. It's a possible reason for the error. Another might be permissions set on the file directories within /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet ... just a couple ideas I ran into in the past.


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Unable to acquire network semaphore: /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet/networkb.bsy

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On the github page of WWIV, look for the error corrected in the source relating to not being able to read FTN's. It's a possible reason for
the error. Another might be permissions set on the file directories
within /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet ... just a couple ideas I ran into in the
past.

I didnt like kubuntu, but im gonna try Linux Mint next time I install Wwiv.


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On the github page of WWIV, look for the error corrected in the source relating to not being able to read FTN's. It's a possible reason for
the error. Another might be permissions set on the file directories
within /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet ... just a couple ideas I ran into in the
past.

Good call, likely is the user running networkb can't create that file in that directory (so permissions issue like you said)
rushfan


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Good call, likely is the user running networkb can't create that file in that directory (so permissions issue like you said)

I'll try to fix my permissions. And if I have any obstacles, i'll post them.


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I'll try to fix my permissions. And if I have any obstacles, i'll post them.

Do this:

whoami
ls -ld /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet

This will tell you/us what your username is and then the owner and permissions of that directory.

+--- -- - [24 hrs] -- --- ----- ------------+
| _\|/_ The Public Electronic Networked Information System _\|/_ |
+----------------- ----- --- -- [So public] [WoW] - -- ---+

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May as well also

ls -ld /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet/networkb

to see if it's already there.

+--- -- - [24 hrs] -- --- ----- ------------+
| _\|/_ The Public Electronic Networked Information System _\|/_ |
+----------------- ----- --- -- [So public] [WoW] - -- ---+

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whoami
ls -ld /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet

This will tell you/us what your username is and then the owner and permissions of that directory.

wwiv
drwxrwxr-x 10 wwiv wwiv 4096 aug 22 21:32 /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet



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drwxrwxr-x 10 wwiv wwiv 4096 aug 22 21:32 /opt/wwiv/net/fsxnet

Well that looks fine. Did you see if there's a 'networkb' already inside?

You said it's asking you for a password but you didn't set one. Just go ahead and set it. 'passwd wwiv' as root, or 'sudo passwd wwiv' as your user.

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