qico is a mailer for the Fidonet. It's features are:

This page describes qicosi, the devlopmentbranch of the qico-Project.

Furhtermore the focus lies on the installation and configuration on debian.

Installation

  1. backup /etc/inetd.conf

  2. cd /usr/src

  3. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qico co qicosi

  4. cd qicosi

  5. ./autogen.sh

  6. ./configure

  7. make

  8. make deb

  9. cd ..

  10. dpkg -i q*.deb

    • This installs qico, the qico-controlcenter and the ncurses-based-qico-controlcenter

  11. diff your backup of inetd.conf with the newly created one and insert missing services

  12. chown ftn.ftn /usr/sbin/qico

  13. chmod u+s /usr/sbin/qico

  14. chmod g+s /usr/sbin/qico

  15. edit /etc/init.d/qico

    • Modify the start option. Replace the start-stop-daemon-stuff with /usr/sbin/qico -d

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /etc/ftn. Copy qico.conf.sample to qico.conf and edit it according to your needs. Below you find some hints.

  1. the maks should be 660 for files and 770 to directories, since qicos group is also ftn.

  2. Multiple lines can be configured in one config file. Just use the if-statements (if line 1).

  3. Todo: more hints O:-)

After you finished configuring qico, run qico -t to verify the configuration files.

First run

Before you can run qico, you have to call qico -n to compile the nodelists.

Translated FAQ

This section contrains translated sections of the Russion qico-FAQ:

I found bug in qico! What to do?

First, try to update - maybe the bug already fixed.

If the bug is not fixed, sent bugreport to author.

Please include the following information:

qico (zuletzt geändert am 2007-12-23 22:47:45 durch localhost)