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2011-05-22 19:21:15 +00:00
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<!-- MBSEADVERT -->
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2009-05-15 20:01:56 +00:00
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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 14-Oct-2007</h5></div>
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<div align="center"><h1>MBSE BBS Basic Installation</h1></div>
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<h3>Introduction.</h3>
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<p>
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Before you compile and install MBSE BBS you must first setup the basic
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environment. If you don't do this, things will fail.
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<p>
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To compile and install MBSE BBS most distributions have installed all needed packages.
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If important packages are missing then the configure script will tell you. There are also
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less important packages which if missinng still let you compile MBSE BBS, but you will miss
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some features. Here is a short list of these packages:
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<ol>
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<li><b>Zlib</b>. On some distributions you also need <b>zlib development</b>. When you have
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zlib installed, then in <b>mbcico</b> extra code will be compiled in the Hydra and Binkp protocol drivers
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that will allow the PLZ extension. In the binkp protocol GZ compression will be enabled as well.</li>
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<li><b>Bzlib</b>. On some distributions you need to install <b>bzlib2 development</b> to add
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support for binkp BZ2 compression.</li>
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<li><b>GeoIP</b>. Allows logging of the origin of the network connections by country and continent.
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You need at least GeoIP 1.4.3 to compile without errors. See
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<A HREF="http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country">www.maxmind.com</A>.
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</ol>
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If you use Gentoo or Ubuntu, read the files README.Gentoo or README.Ubuntu. The last one may be usefull
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for Debian users too.
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<P> <p>
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<h3>Step 1: planning the filesystems.</h3>
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<p>
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MBSE BBS is default installed in <b>/opt/mbse</b>. It should be possible to install the bbs in a different
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location but this is not supported. Many have tried, and and only a few have succeeded. See
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<A HREF="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</A> for more info.
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The default filesystem layout looks like this:<br>
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/opt/mbse 0775 Default MBSE_ROOT
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/opt/mbse/bin 0770 Binaries
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/opt/mbse/etc 0770 System configuration files
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/opt/mbse/etc/dosemu 0750 DOSemu configuration files
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/opt/mbse/ftp/pub 0755 Default FTP root for download areas.
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/opt/mbse/home 0770 Users homedirectories
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/opt/mbse/home/bbs 0770 Newuser account
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/opt/mbse/html 0755 HTML documentation
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/opt/mbse/log 0770 MBSE BBS logfiles
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/opt/mbse/share/doc 0750 Generated sitedocs
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/opt/mbse/share/doc/html 0750 Generated html sitedocs
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/opt/mbse/share/doc/tags 0750 Generated area tags
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/opt/mbse/share/int 0750 Base for language files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/de 0750 German template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/en 0750 English template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/es 0750 Spanish template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/fr 0750 French template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/gl 0750 Galego template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/nl 0750 Dutch template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/macro/zh 0750 Chinese template macro's
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/de 0750 German menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/en 0750 English menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/es 0750 Spanish menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/fr 0750 French menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/gl 0750 Galego menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/nl 0750 Dutch menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/menus/zh 0750 Chinese menu files
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/de 0750 German ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/en 0750 English ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/es 0750 Spanish ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/fr 0750 French ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/gl 0750 Galego ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/nl 0750 Dutch ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/zh 0750 Chinese ansi screens
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/opt/mbse/tmp 0770 Temp directory
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/opt/mbse/tmp/arc 0770 Temp archiver directory
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/opt/mbse/var 0770 Var root
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/opt/mbse/var/arealists 0750 Areamgr arealist files
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/opt/mbse/var/badtic 0750 Bad TIC files
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/opt/mbse/var/boxes 0770 Base for nodes fileboxes
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/opt/mbse/var/bso 0770 Binkley Style Outbound directory
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/opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound 0770 Default outbound for main aka
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/opt/mbse/var/dosemu 0770 Base for DOS drives (doors)
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/opt/mbse/var/dosemu/c 0770 DOS drive C:
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/opt/mbse/var/fdb 0770 Files database
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/opt/mbse/var/inbound 0750 Protected inbound directory
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/opt/mbse/var/magic 0750 Magic filerequest names
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/opt/mbse/var/mail 0770 JAM messagebase root
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/opt/mbse/var/msgs 0770 *.msgs netmail directory
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/opt/mbse/var/nodelist 0750 Nodelists
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/opt/mbse/var/queue 0750 Queue for before outbound
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/opt/mbse/var/rules 0770 Echomail area rules files
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/opt/mbse/var/run 0770 Pid files of running programs
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/opt/mbse/var/sema 0777 Semafore files
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/opt/mbse/var/ticqueue 0750 Queue for TIC files
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/opt/mbse/var/unknown 0750 Unprotected inbound directory
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</pre>
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<p>
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Don't use UMSDOS or SAMBA filesystems for the bbs, stick by the standard
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GNU/Linux
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filesystems (ext2, ext3 or reiserfs) or ufs if you use FreeBSD.
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If you intent to make your bbs also accessible
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by FTP and WWW you must create the directory structure under the ftp user
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behind the pub directory. Read <a href="misc/ftpserver.html">the
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ftp server</a> doc for details. If you don't follow these guidlines, you
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will run into trouble later and have to spend a lot of time in correcting
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this error.
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<P> <p>
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<h3>Step 2: Running the installation script.</h3>
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<p>
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First, if you use FreeBSD, install the psmisc package. This will make sure
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that MBSE BBS is stopped properly if you shutdown your computer. Also if you
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use FreeBSD 5.0 or later make sure that you mount procfs, see <b>man procfs</b>
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for details. If you don't mount procfs, you cannot add new users to the bbs and
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existing bbs users cannot change their passwords. As sysop, you can't change
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passwords too.<br>
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If you are upgrading, proceed with step 4. If not, follow the next steps
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very carefully!<br>
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The installation script must be run by root. It checks if there is a
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previous or failed installation on your system. If that's so the script will
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not run. In other words, you can only run this script once. The script makes
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backup copies of the system files it changes, these files will get the
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extension <strong>.mbse</strong> To run the installation script you need
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the archive <strong>mbbsebbs-@VERSION@.tar.bz2</strong>.
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Unpack this archive on your system, in /tmp:
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cd /tmp
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tar xfvj /path/to/the/mbsebbs-@VERSION@.tar.bz2
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</pre>
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To start the script type:
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cd mbsebbs-@VERSION@
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bash ./SETUP.sh
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</pre>
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Ubuntu users should do:
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cd mbsebbs-@VERSION@
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sudo bash ./SETUP.sh
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Yes, use <b>bash</b> as shell here. On some systems root doesn't use bash
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as login shell, calling the script with bash forces the use of bash.
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The script does the following:
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<ol>
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<li>Create the group <strong>bbs</strong>
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<li>Create the user <strong>mbse</strong> On Ubuntu this user is added to the admin group.
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<li>Create a <strong>.profile</strong> for user <strong>mbse</strong>
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<li>Create and set owner of directory tree under /opt/mbse
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</ol>
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Then the script will ask you to give a password for user <strong>mbse</strong>
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This password is for system maintenance and for you to make changes to the
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bbs. You will need that frequently but you should not make that password
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easy to guess of course. The script will then continue again:
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<ol start="5">
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<li>The user <strong>bbs</strong> is added.
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<li>The password will be removed from user <strong>bbs</strong> This action
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will make changes in /etc/shadow (if you have that) otherwise in /etc/passwd.
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On FreeBSD it uses other tools to modify the master database.
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On NetBSD you have to do that manually, there are no tools to do that.
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<li>If they don't exist in the file /etc/services the services fido, tfido
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and binkp will be added.
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<li>If they don't exist in the file /etc/inetd.conf the internet protocols
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for the mailer will be added. The <strong>inetd</strong> is restarted to
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activate the changes. If your distribution uses xinetd instead of inetd, an
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include file for xinetd is added instead.
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</ol>
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<p> <p>
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<h3>Step 3: Check the basic installation</h3>
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The last screen of the script is about sanity checks. Perform those checks!
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If something is wrong, now is the time to fix it. Don't panic and remember
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the backups of the system files that are changed are in /etc with the
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extension <strong>.mbse</strong> i.e: those were the original files.
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The installation logfile is copied to /opt/mbse.
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If everythings is allright, then remove the directory /tmp/mbsebbs-@VERSION@:
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cd /tmp
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rm -Rf mbsebbs-@VERSION@
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</pre>
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<p> <p>
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<h3>Step 4: Install the basic packages.</h3>
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Login as user <b>mbse</b>. Yes, very important, <b>login as user mbse</b>.
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While in mbse's home directory (/opt/mbse) unpack the distribution archives:
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tar xfvj /path/to/mbsebbs-@VERSION@.tar.bz2
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</pre>
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You now have the subdirectory with sources in the right place.
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Next build the binaries and install them using the following commands:
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cd ~/mbsebbs-@VERSION@
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./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
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make
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su <b>important, do not use "su -"</b>
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password: <em>enter root password here</em>
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make install
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exit
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</pre>
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Ubuntu users should do:
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cd ~/mbsebbs-@VERSION@
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./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
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make
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sudo make install
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</pre>
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<b>Important:</b> it seems logical to use the <code>--enable-newsgate</code> option
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but it isn't. When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve
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echomail as news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the
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internet. Independant of your choice, you can allways make internet news available
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for your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate echomail
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to the internet.
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<p>
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To support Chinese the DELete key needs to be changed because it conflicts with one
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of the characters. If you want to use Chinese, use <code>--enable-gbkdel</code>
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to configure.
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<p>
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The last part of the installation procedure shows you the location of the bbs
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startup script that is added to your system. Remember this one for a moment.
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Because this is your first
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time installation, example menus and example textfiles are installed.
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If they already exist on your systems (when you do an upgrade) they
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will not be installed again.
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<p>
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Now start the bbs for the first time (still as root) by executing the startup
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script you just saw on the screen followed by a space and the word <b>start</b>.
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For example:
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/etc/rc.d/init.d/mbsed start
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</pre>
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Ubuntu users do:
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<pre>
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sudo /etc/init.d/mbsebbs start
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</pre>
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This will start the <b>mbtask</b> daemon.
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After that the bbs will be opened for use.
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Check the file <b>/opt/mbse/log/mbtask.log</b> for startup problems.
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The first time <b>mbtask</b> is started on your system it will create a
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lot of new configuration files with default settings.
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<p> <p>
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<h3>Step 5: Ready.</h3>
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<p>
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Now you have shell scripts in ~/etc, most of them are called by cron, some
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are called during system startup and shutdown. You also have some default
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configuration files, these are ttyinfo, modems, fidonet networks. In the
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default (english) directory you now have default menu datafiles and ansi
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screens. These are copies of my test system so you have to edit them to
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build your own bbs.<br>
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Editing ansi screens can be done on a GNU/Linux system with one of the
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following packages:
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<ol>
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<li><strong>duhdraw</strong>, this is available from 2:280/2802 as
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<strong>duhdraw.tgz</strong> (68 Kbytes).
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The binaries are included in this archive, if you compile it yourself
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it may give trouble so if the binaries work, use these.</li>
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<li><strong>bmdraw</strong> This editor is available from
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<A HREF="http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/">http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/</A>,
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it's about 36 Kbytes. This is also a thedraw clone for Linux.
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Note, at my system I needed to run it as root.</li>
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<li><strong>TetraDraw</strong> This is a very nice Ansi editor, you can
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