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<META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek">
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<TITLE>Starting and stopping the BBS.</TITLE>
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2011-05-22 19:21:15 +00:00
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2009-05-15 20:01:56 +00:00
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<div align='right'><h5>Last update 06-Jun-2001</h5></div>
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<div align='center'><H1>Starting and Stopping the BBS.</H1></div>
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Now it is time to check the starting and stopping of the BBS. As you have
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installed everything, setup the BBS etc, you must check if the shutdown and
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reboot work properly. As root type <strong>shutdown -r now</strong> and
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watch the console. You should see messages that the BBS is closing while
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the systems shuts down. This should be one of the first things to happen.
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Because Slackware up to version 7.0.0 is tricky to automatic install the shutdown scripts,
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you won't see this happen on older Slackware versions. If you want, you can edit
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/etc/rc.d/rc.6 and /etc/rc.d/rc.K and insert the line /opt/mbse/etc/rc.shutdown
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at the proper places.<p>
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When your system comes up again, one of the last messages before the login
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prompt appears or just before X-windows starts, you should see messages that
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the BBS is started.<P>
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Login as user <strong>mbse</strong> and check the logfiles if everything looks
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good. If something is wrong, reread the previous documentation and check if
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you did everything right.<p>
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Next logon to your BBS locally using the account "bbs".
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You can do that by typing <b>su - bbs</b> or if you already have installed
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<b>mblogin</b> as login replacement for telnet, then type <b>telnet
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localhost</b>.
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You will then create the first user of your BBS, this will be you, the sysop of course.
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After you logout the BBS start as user <strong>
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mbse</strong> the program <strong>mbsetup</strong> and edit your user record
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to set your level to that of the sysop. One more thing, the unix account you
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must create when you logon as new BBS user may not be <strong>mbse</strong>
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as this is the normal Admin account the BBS and its utilities use.<p>
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Now login with your unix account and see if everything still works.
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If you have setup <strong>mgetty</strong> you may want to test if
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users really can login with a modem. Also check a mailer session, can you
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dialout, ie. poll other nodes and can they call you. There is a lot that can
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go wrong with unix permissions if you are not precise in wat you are doing.<P>
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If everything is working it is time to create poll events, and adjust other
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scripts to your local needs to get your BBS full up and running.<P>
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To do this you must install a crontab for user <strong>mbse</strong>.
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As user <strong>mbse</strong> go to the directory <strong>~/mbsebbs-0.33.xx</strong>.
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In that directory type <strong>sh ./CRON.sh</strong> and a default crontab will be installed.<p>
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To add poll events, edit the crontab with the command <strong>crontab -e
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</strong> At the bottom of that file there is an example of how to do that.
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Now that the crontab is installed, all maintenance will now work, automatic
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dialout, scanning and tossing mail etc. In other words, the bbs is up and
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running.
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