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<META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek">
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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 01-Mar-2007</h5></div>
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<div align="center"><H1>MBSE BBS Setup - Global Setup</H1></div>
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In this setup you can edit all global settings for MBSE BBS. All sections will
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be discussed below.
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<P>
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<h3>1.1. Fidonet Aka's.</h3>
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Here you can enter 40 fidonet addresses. These are 5d addresses. Make sure you
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group the different zone's together, strange things will happen if you don't
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group them.
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<h3>1.2. Edit Registration Info.</H3>
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<strong>BBS Name </strong>The name of your BBS
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<strong>Maildomain </strong>Your internet mail domain name (or system host.domain.com
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if you don't have a maildomain).
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<strong>Sysop uid </strong>The Unix name of your Sysop account
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<strong>Sysop Fido </strong>The Fidonet name of your Sysop account
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<strong>Location </strong>The Location of your BBS
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<strong>OLR id </strong>The packet name for Offline mail downloads.
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<strong>Comment </strong>A comment line for your BBS
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<strong>Origin </strong>The default origin line for echomail
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<strong>Newuser </strong>The default username "bbs" for new users.
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<strong>My FQDN </strong>My real internet Full Qualified Domain Name.
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A note abou the last item, My FQDN. This <b>MUST</b> be the name that is
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returned with <code>nslookup 1.2.3.4</code> (use your internet IP adress there)
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if you have a fixed IP address. Systems that are on a dynamic IP address and use
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some sort of dyndns service <b>may</b> put that dyndns FQDN in there. Using this will
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cause the other system to do twice as much dns resolve actions, so use this only
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when needed. Another note, what you put in here has nothing to do with mail or
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mail domains, that needs to be in the second option of this screen. The My FQDN
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field is used by the Internet BBS Chatserver (IBC) to allow bbs systems to build
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a chat network.
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<h3>1.3. Edit Global Filenames.</H3>
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<strong>System logfile </strong>The name of the main logfile
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<strong>Error logfile </strong>The name of the errors logfile
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<strong>Debug logfile </strong>The name of the debug logfile
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<strong>Mgr logfile </strong>The name of the area-/filemgr logfile
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<strong>Default menu </strong>The name of the default main menu
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<strong>Chat logfile </strong>The name of the logfile for chatting
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<strong>Welcome logo </strong>The name of the BBS logo ANSI file
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<h3>1.4. Edit Global Paths</H3>
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<strong>Home dirs </strong>The path to the users home directories
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<strong>FTP base </strong>The FTP base path, ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/pub
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<strong>Arealists </strong>The path where area lists and filebone lists are stored
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<strong>Ext. edit </strong>The full path and filename to the external editor
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<strong>Rules dir </strong>The path to the directory to store area rules
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<strong>Magic's </strong>Where the magic filerequests are kept
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<strong>DOS path </strong>The DOS drive and path
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<strong>Unix path </strong>The Translated DOS path in real
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<strong>LeaveCase </strong>Leave outbound .flo filenames as is, No forces to uppercase
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<strong>Nodelists </strong>The path to the nodelist directory
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<strong>Inbound </strong>The unprotected fidonet inbound
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<strong>Prot inb. </strong>The (password) protected fidonet inbound
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<strong>Outbound </strong>The outbound for the main aka
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<strong>Out queue </strong>The outbound queue for temporary files
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<strong>*.msgs </strong>A netmail directory from where *.msg mails are tossed
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These are *.msg files can be created by several doors. (Not in use yet)
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<strong>Bad TIC's </strong>Where bad TIC files are saved
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<strong>TIC queue </strong>Where TIC files for downlinks are kept
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<strong>TMail DOS </strong>The T-Mail 8.3 (short) base path (empty = disable)
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<strong>TMail Win </strong>The T-Mail long filename base path (empty = disable)
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If you fill in the DOS path then the DOS path and Unix path are translated
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to DOS paths in the flo files for outbound mail sessions. You only need this if
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another mailer uses the outbound that doesn't understand Unix paths.
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The DOS path is a fake, but it must match the other mailer.
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Note that the TIC queue must be somewere in the Unix path, otherwise it is
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impossible to create a DOS path from the path to the TIC files in that
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directory. To set this up correctly is also important if you use other mailers
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as well, for example binkd, or even a DOS binkly-style mailer running from
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a network. All those mailer must "see" the same file attaches in the .flo
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files.
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<h3>1.5. Edit BBS Configuration</H3>
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<strong>Private system </strong>Set to true when only pre-registered users are allowed
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<strong>Exclude Sysop </strong>True is Sysop will be invisible
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<strong>Show connect </strong>Show connection info at logon
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<strong>Ask protocols </strong>Ask protocol before each up/download
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<strong>Sysop level </strong>The Sysop security level
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<strong>Password Length </strong>The minimum password length, should be 6.
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<strong>Password Char. </strong>The password hiding character
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<strong>Idle timeout </strong>The idle timeout in minutes
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<strong>Login Enters </strong>Maximum times for only enter <Enter>
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<strong>Login Attempts </strong>Maximum login attempts
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<strong>Homedir Quota </strong>Maximum size in MBytes for each user
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<strong>Location length </strong>The minimum length of the location (3 in Holland!)
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<strong>Show new msgarea </strong>Show new available message areas at logon (for OLR users)
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<strong>OLR Max. msgs. </strong>Maximum messages to download, 0 is no limit.
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<strong>OLR Newfile days </strong>The maximum age for newfiles in the OLR packet
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<strong>OLR Max Filereq </strong>Maximum filerequests allowed for OLR users
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<strong>BBS Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not the BBS program
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<strong>Utils Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not for utilities
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<strong>Utils slowly </strong>Should utilities release <A HREF="../misc/usleep.html">timeslices</A>
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<strong>CrashMail level </strong>Minimum level to allow sending netmail crash
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<strong>FileAttach level </strong>Minimum level to allow attach files to netmail
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<strong>Min diskspace MB </strong>At which low diskspace level utilities should stop working.
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<strong>Simult. logins </strong>Maximum simultaneous logins allowed, 0 is unlimited, 1 is adviced.
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<strong>Child priority </strong>Subproces nice priority, 0=high, 15=low CPU load.
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<strong>Filesystem sync </strong>Call sync before and after execute.
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<strong>Default language </strong>Default language (English).
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The minimum diskspace setting is to prevent that files get corrupted if your filesystem
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is full. All drives are checked except CD-roms and floppies and the /boot directory if that
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one is on a separate filesystem. Ext2, ext3, reiserfs, msdos and vfat partitions
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are checked. The lowest free diskspace found counts. Default is 10 MB.
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The Child priority sets the nice value for example zip/unzip, virus scanners
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etc. Modern fast hardware will do fine with a low setting, older (pre PII)
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hardware may need 15 to prevent a too heavy CPU load.
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The filesystem sync setting is to call sync before and after the execute call,
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such as when unzip is called. Almost all GNU/Linux systems need this because GNU/Linux
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uses asynchronous directory changes. Since Linux 2.5.19 it should be possible to
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mount filesystems synchronous. If this setting is No on asynchronous filesystems
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mail and files can get corrupted. XxxxBSD systems use synchronous directory
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updates and don't need this switch. If you don't know what all this is about,
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leave this to the default setting.
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Choice of default language. English is the best choice because that is the only
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language that is complete in the default installation. In the user setup another
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language may be used, the language set here is then used as a backup.
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<h3>1.6. User flag Descriptions.</h3>
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In this menu you can give the 32 users flags a meaningfull description.
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<h3>1.7. New users defaults.</h3>
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<strong>Access level </strong>The access level and flags after registration
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<strong>Cap. Username </strong>Capitalize the username
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<strong>Ask Sex </strong>Ask for Male/Female
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<strong>Ask Voicephone </strong>Ask for voice phonenumber
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<strong>Ask Dataphone </strong>Ask for data phonenumber
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<strong>Telephone scan </strong>Scan for duplicate numbers
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<strong>Ask Handle </strong>Ask for handle (nickname)
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<strong>Ask Birth date </strong>Ask for birthdate (needed for checks)
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<strong>Ask Location </strong>Ask for users location
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<strong>Ask Hot-Keys </strong>Ask for hot-keyed menus (default is yes)
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<strong>One word names </strong>Allow one word names
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<strong>Ask address </strong>Ask user for his/her home address
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<strong>Give email </strong>Give new users email access (default is yes)
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<strong>Ask Screenlen </strong>Ask new users to set their screen length
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<strong>Do newmail check </strong>Yes/No or Ask new user if for newmail check at logon
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<strong>Do newfiles check </strong>Yes/No or Ask new user if for newfiles check at logon
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<h3>1.8. Text Colors.</h3>
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Several prompts use different colors. They can be changed with the following
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menu.
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<IMG SRC="../images/mbsetup1.6.png" alt='Colors setup'>
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<IMG SRC="../images/mbsetup1.6.S.png" alt='Colors setup'>
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<h3>1.9. Sysop paging</h3>
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For sysop chat a protocol is used to communicate with the mbtask daemon which
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has a very simple IRC like chatserver. For sysop/user chat a forced channel
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with the name #sysop is used.
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<strong>Page length </strong>The length of a page in seconds
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<strong>Page times </strong>Maximum number of times a user may page the sysop
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<strong>Sysop area </strong>Message from user to Sysop area number
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<strong>Ask reason </strong>Ask reason for chat, this will be logged
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<strong>Log Chat </strong>Log the chat conversation
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<strong>Prompt Chk. </strong>Check at menu prompts for Sysop breaking in
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<strong>Freeze Time </strong>Freeze users time during chat
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<h3>1.10. Fileecho Processing.</h3>
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A note, when you change the number of Systems or Groups, the databases affected
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will be updated automatic.
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<strong>Keep days </strong>How long TIC files should be kept on hold
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<strong>Hatch pwd </strong>The internal hatch password. Make this weird.
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<strong>Drv space </strong>The minimal free space on your disk in kilobytes
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<strong>Systems </strong>The maximum number of connected nodes
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<strong>Groups </strong>The maximum number of fileecho groups
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<strong>Max. dupes </strong>The maximum number of entries in dupe database
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<strong>Keep date </strong>Keep original filedate
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<strong>Keep netm </strong>Keep sent netmails
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<strong>Loc resp </strong>Respond to local created filefind messages
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<strong>Plus all </strong>Allow filemgr +all command
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<strong>Notify </strong>Allow filemgr notify=on/off command
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<strong>Passwd </strong>Allow filemgr/areamgr passwd command
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<strong>Message </strong>Allow filemgr message=on/off command
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<strong>Tic on/off </strong>Allow filemgr tic=on/off command
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<strong>Pause </strong>Allow filemgr pause/resume commands
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When you change one of the <b>Allow filemgr</b> settings, you also need to edit
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the file /opt/mbse/english/macro/filemgr.help to reflect the new settings.
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Default all these switches are set to Yes.
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<h3>1.11. Edit Fidonet mail and echomail processing.</h3>
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Note that the first 2 mailboards must also exist in the normal mail areas if
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you want to see what is in them. Here they are defined for quick access of the
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tosser. For the Max. systems and groups see 1.12. If you use MBSE BBS together
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with a DOS based BBS (using DOSEMU or mars netware emulator), you can set the
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behaviour of the outbound to 4d. addressing instead of 5d. This option may
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dissapear in the future.<br>
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Another option is present, this is the <strong>pktdate</strong> option. This
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is the full path and filename to an external program that can inspect and
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correct the mail .pkt files. Originally I put this in to run pktname of Tobias
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Ernst of 2:2476/418 to fix y2k problems in the incoming mail. At this time
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most y2k fixes are build in, but in case you need it it's there. To make it
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clear; the y2ktools written by Tobias are static compiled for GNU/Linux and they
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should run on all GNU/Linux i386 versions. Until now, I still use pktdate because
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it is necessary.<br>
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<strong>Badboard </strong>The path and filename of the bad messages
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<strong>Dupeboard </strong>The path and filename of the duplicate messages
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<strong>Pktdate </strong>Full path and filename of a .pkt preprocessor
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<strong>Max pkts. </strong>Maximum Kb. of mail packets before a new one is created.
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<strong>Max arcs. </strong>Maximum size in Kilobytes of an arcmail file
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<strong>Keep days </strong>How many day should we keep ARCmail on hold
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<strong>Echo dupes </strong>Maximum number of entries in the echomail dupe database
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<strong>Reject old </strong>Reject echomail messages older then n days
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<strong>Max msgs </strong>Default maximum number of messages in each area
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<strong>Days old </strong>Default number of days old to keep messages
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<strong>Max systems </strong>Maximum number of nodes to connect to echomail
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<strong>Max groups </strong>Maximum number of echomail groups
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<strong>4d address </strong>Use 4d. addressing (not needed you only use MBSE BBS)
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<strong>Split at </strong>Gently split messages after n KBytes (12..60)
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<strong>Force at </strong>Force split of messages after n KBytes (16..63)
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<strong>Plus all </strong>Allow areamgr +all command
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<strong>Notify </strong>Allow areamgr notify=on/off command
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<strong>Passwd </strong>Allow areamgr/filemgr passwd command
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<strong>Pause </strong>Allow areamgr pause/resume commands
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When you change one of the <b>Allow areamgr</b> settings, you also need to edit
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the file /opt/mbse/english/macro/areamgr.help to reflect the new settings.
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Default all these switches are set to Yes.
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A note about the splitting of messages. Some tossers can't handle
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messages greater than 16 KBytes, these tossers are rare these days. Most
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tossers can handle messages of 32 KBytes. To set these values on the safe
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side set "Split at" to 27 and "Force at" to 31. This means that a long
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newfile report will be split after 27 KBytes when a new group of files
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should start in the report. If it can't find that point because a large
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number of files is in the group that is just being processed, the message
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split will be forced right after the file that passes the 31 KBytes limit.
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I use values of 1 KBytes below maximum for overhead such as SEEN-BY and
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PATH lines. Values larger then 32 KBytes is not a good idea, recent tests
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in May 1999 have shown that your messages will not reach all systems
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if they are larger then 32 KBytes. Splitting is used for newfiles reports
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and gated news articles to Fidonet.
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<P>
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<h3>1.12. Edit Internet mail and news processing.</h3>
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Email and news is setup here. There are three possible configurations which you
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can set with 1.12.11:
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<li><strong>No internet</strong>. If you don't have any connection to the internet
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use this setting. Email will come from the default Fidonet UUCP gate and will be send out
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via the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Note, the username is their
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Unix name when sending email.
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<li><strong>No maildomain</strong>. If have internet but don't have your own
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maildomain (most dialup systems) you should use this mode.
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Email will be sent via your local SMTP port, then through your
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own sendmail (or whatever you use) to your ISP.
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As soon as you are connected to the internet
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the mail will be sent to your ISP's mailer. In your sendmail you should
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define the mailer of your ISP as Smarthost. Incoming email will still come
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from the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Incoming email comes from
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the default Fidonet UUCP gate.
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Note, the username is their Unix name.
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If you have your own maildomain, don't use this option, use the next option:
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<li><strong>Own maildomain</strong>. If you are permanent connected to the internet
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either with a static or dynamic IP address use this option. Use this option
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also if you have an UUCP domain and have a dialup UUCP connection. Also
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you can use this for dialup if you have your own maildomain without UUCP,
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you will then fetch the mail from a multidrop mailbox (POP or IMAP) and
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send the mail using SMTP via the SMTP mailer of your provider.<br>
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If you have a dynamic IP address you can still get a DNS name from for
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example <A HREF="http://www.dynip.com">dynip.com</A>
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Incoming email will come directly from the internet, but if someone sends
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email via the UUCP gate it is also accepted. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@yourbbs.domain.org</strong>. Note, the username is their
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Unix name and yourbbs.domain.org must be an existing internet domain.
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A word of wisdom from my side, configuration of the internet, ppp, sendmail etc. is not discussed
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here, see the HOWTO's and other documentation that exists at <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">
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www.linuxdoc.org</A>, it's all there.
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<pre>
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<strong>POP3 node </strong>The POP3 node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>POP3 user@domain </strong>Use user@domain to login in the POP3 server
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<strong>SMTP node </strong>The SMTP node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>NNTP node </strong>The NNTP node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>NNTP m.r. </strong>If the NNTP server needs the Mode Reader command
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<strong>NNTP user </strong>The username for the NNTP server if needed
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<strong>NNTP pass </strong>The password for the NNTP server if needed
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<strong>News dupes </strong>The number of entries for the news dupes database.
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<strong>Email aka </strong>The Fidonet aka to use for the fidonet.org UUCP gate
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<strong>UUCP aka </strong>The default Fidonet UUCP gate, 2:292/875@fidonet
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<strong>Emailmode </strong>The email mode, discussed above
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<strong>News mode </strong>Newsfeed mode, INN, rnews or UUCP.
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<strong>Articles </strong>The default maximum newsarticles to fetch per group.
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<strong>Split at </strong>Gently split newfiles reports after n KBytes (12..60)
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<strong>Force at </strong>Force split of newfiles reports after n KBytes (16..63)
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<strong>Control ok </strong>Allow news control messages to be gated
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<strong>No regate </strong>Don't regate already gated messages
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In rnews mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
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<strong>Path rnews </strong>The full path and filename to the rnews binary.
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In UUCP mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
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<strong>UUCP path </strong>The full path to the uucppublic directory.
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<strong>UUCP node </strong>The UUCP nodename of your ISP.
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</pre><p>
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<P>
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<h3>1.13. Allfiles and Newfiles lists.</h3>
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<p>
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These are the settings that affect the generation of newfiles and allfiles reports.
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<pre>
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<strong>New days </strong>The number of days old files are "newfiles"
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<strong>Security </strong>The highest security level to include files in the reports
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<strong>Groups </strong>The number of newfile groups the newfiles database can hold
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</pre><p>
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2003-04-01 21:41:36 +00:00
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<h3>1.14. Mailer Setup.</h3>
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<p>
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Note that you can't disable FTS-0001 sessions as that is a mandatory session
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protocol in Fidonet. There are 40 phonenumber translations present, this is for
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countries with lots of telephone operators with all kind of prefixes for
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carrier select functions. The setting of TCP/IP flags is important too, this
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gives the information what this system will do. If you only enter IBN as TCP/IP
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flags then the system will only call IBN nodes (binkp). The default is
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XX,CM and TCP/IP systems (internet) should use the XX,CM,IBN,IFC flags.
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If you cannot do TCP/IP connections, leave TCP/IP "phone" empty. The three
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TCP/IP fields are used to give your system information via EMSI or binkp to
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the other nodes.
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<pre>
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<strong>Mailer logl. </strong>The logging level for mailer sessions
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<strong>TCP/IP "phone" </strong>The TCP/IP "phone" number (IP address or domain name)
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<strong>TCP/IP flags </strong>The TCP/IP capability flags for TCP/IP sessions
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<strong>TCP/IP speed </strong>The TCP/IP linespeed
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<strong>Timeout reset </strong>The timout for normal modem commands
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<strong>Timeout connect </strong>The timeout for waiting for connect
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<strong>Dial delay </strong>The maximum delay between calls, minimum is 10 seconds.
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<strong>No Filerquests </strong>Disable filerequests
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<strong>No callout </strong>Disable callout
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<strong>No EMSI session </strong>Disable EMSI
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<strong>No YooHoo/2U2 </strong>Disable FTS-0006 sessions
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<strong>No Zmodem </strong>Disable zmodem protocol
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<strong>No Zedzap </strong>Disable zedzap protocol
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<strong>No Hydra </strong>Disable Hydra protocol
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<strong>No MD5 </strong>Disable binkp MD5 passwords
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<strong>Zero Locks OK </strong>Allow zero byte lockfiles from another OS
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<strong>Phonetrans 1..40 </strong>Maximum 40 phone number translations
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<strong>Max. files </strong>Maximum files to request, 0 is unlimited
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<strong>Max. MBytes </strong>Maximum MBytes to request, 0 is unlimited
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</pre>
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2004-01-11 16:50:10 +00:00
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<h3>1.15. Edit HTML pages setup.</h3>
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<p>
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Here you setup the HTML pages that can be created with the <strong>
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mbfile web</strong> command. These are HTML pages of your download
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areas and indexes of all areas. If there are pictures in these areas
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thumbnails are created if you have the <strong>convert</strong>
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command available. The document root is the same as defined in your
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web server. The link to ftp must be created from that directory to
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your ftp base directory. To do that become root, cd to the document root
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and type <strong>ln -s /var/spool/mbse/ftp files</strong> In this case the link
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is called <strong>files</strong>. Note that all download areas are accesible,
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there is no user authentication yet available.
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<strong>Docs root </strong>The path to the httpd documents root.
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<strong>Link to ftp </strong>The link to the ftp directory.
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<strong>URL name </strong>The URL of your webserver.
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<strong>Charset </strong>The default character set, ISO-8859-1.
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<strong>Author name </strong>The author name you want in the HTTP headers.
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<strong>Convert command </strong>The graphics convert command. (ImageMagick needed).
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<strong>Files/page </strong>The number of files to display per web page.
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<strong>Hist. limit </strong>Limit the number of mailhistory.html lines, 0 is unlimited.
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</pre>
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2004-01-11 16:50:10 +00:00
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<h3>1.16. Manager flag Descriptions.</h3>
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<p>
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In this menu you can give the 32 area-/filemgr flags a meaningfull description.
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