home_bbs(1)

✨ home_bbs — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the AX.25 Mail Utilities corner of the manual (that's the manual name, section 1, so you KNOW it's a command you just type in your shell 💅). this one's short, sweet, and honestly iconic for how much it does with so little.

🌸 NAME 🌸

home_bbs — find the home BBS for a callsign, or force a home BBS for it. that's it, that's the whole job 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

home_bbs <user_callsign> [<bbs_callsign>]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe. home_bbs is a two-moods kinda command and it picks the mood based on how many things you hand it.

• give it only a callsign? it goes and scans the BBS database and tries to find the home BBS for that callsign. like, detective mode, no cap 🔍
• give it a callsign and also the address? now it's not asking anymore — it changes the database to force that specified BBS as the home BBS for the callsign. main character energy, it just decides 🫶

fr fr, notice that the second one writes to the database. the first one just looks. two very different energies, bestie, know which one you're in.

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /var/ax25/mail_routes — the database it's reading from (or rewriting, depending on your mood ✨)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• update_routes(1) — go say hi, they're friends 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this absolute legend wrote it: Radek Burget OK2JBG <radkovo@centrum.cz> 💜

okay and the cute little sign-off, because every good manpage has one: this one lives in the Linux manual, and the page is dated 10 September 1999. a whole vintage queen 🌈💖

go find those home BBSes, bestie, slay 💅✨