Updated the FAQ
This commit is contained in:
Michiel Broek
parent
ce06b59931
commit
079ce2527d
535
html/faq.html
535
html/faq.html
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
|
|||||||
<blockquote>
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
<div align=center><h1>MBSE BBS FAQ and Howto.</h1></div>
|
<div align=center><h1>MBSE BBS FAQ and Howto.</h1></div>
|
||||||
<hr>
|
<hr>
|
||||||
<div align=right><h5>Last updated 11-May-2002</h5></div>
|
<div align=right><h5>Last updated 09-Jun-2002</h5></div>
|
||||||
<pre>
|
<pre>
|
||||||
Author: P.E. Kimble aka King Kimerud
|
Author: P.E. Kimble aka King Kimerud
|
||||||
kimerud@bayhaus.org
|
kimerud@bayhaus.org
|
||||||
@ -54,9 +54,16 @@
|
|||||||
<p> </p>
|
<p> </p>
|
||||||
<li><a name="_BBSsetup"></a><a href='#4'>BBS Setup</a></li>
|
<li><a name="_BBSsetup"></a><a href='#4'>BBS Setup</a></li>
|
||||||
<ol>
|
<ol>
|
||||||
<li><a href='#4.1'>How do I run DOS doors under MBSE BBS?</a></li>
|
<li><a href='#4.1'>How do I to set up MBSE for ISDN?</a></li>
|
||||||
<li><a href='#4.2'>How do I to set up MBSE for ISDN?</a></li>
|
<li><a href='#4.2'>How do I use GoldED together with MBSE?</a></li>
|
||||||
<li><a href='#4.3'>How do I use GoldED together with MBSE?</a></li>
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
<p> </p>
|
||||||
|
<li><a name="_Doors"></a><a href='#5'>Doors Setup</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li><a href='#5.1'>How do I run DOS doors under MBSE BBS?</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li><a href='#5.2'>Dosemu compile tips</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li><a href='#5.3'>Setting up for InterBBS games.</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li><a href='#5.4'>Door Maintenance.</a></li>
|
||||||
</ol>
|
</ol>
|
||||||
</ol>
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
@ -288,10 +295,175 @@ responsiblity of the system administrator!
|
|||||||
<h3><a name="4">4. BBS setup.</h3>
|
<h3><a name="4">4. BBS setup.</h3>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<table width=100%>
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="4.1">Q 4.1</a></td><td>
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="4.2">Q 4.1</a></td><td>
|
||||||
How do I run DOS doors under MBSE BBS?
|
How to set up MBSE for ISDN.
|
||||||
</td></tr>
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.1</td><td>
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.1</td><td>
|
||||||
|
Contributed by: J. Beekhuizen, 2:280/1018
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Of course, you have to configure and build your kernel for ISDN support
|
||||||
|
and the correct drivers for your card. It is beyond the scope of this
|
||||||
|
document to explain how to do that.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
To your /etc/inittab file add the following lines for your ISDN devices
|
||||||
|
ttyI0 and ttyI1.
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
# ISDN lines
|
||||||
|
I1:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 4 -i /opt/mbse/etc/issue ttyI0
|
||||||
|
I2:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 4 -i /opt/mbse/etc/issue ttyI1
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
To your mgetty.config file
|
||||||
|
[/usr/local/etc/mgetty_sendfax/mgetty.config on my system]
|
||||||
|
set up the ttyI0 and ttyI1 ports. With AT&E you set the
|
||||||
|
MSN/EAZ the device should listen to. This should for an MSN be
|
||||||
|
your telephone number <b>with</b> the area code but
|
||||||
|
<b>without</b> the leading 0. For an EAZ the last digit of your EAZ.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
The ISDN ports
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
port ttyI0
|
||||||
|
modem-type data
|
||||||
|
init-chat "" ATZ OK AT&E714015437&W0 OK AT&B512 OK
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
port ttyI1
|
||||||
|
modem-type data
|
||||||
|
init-chat "" ATZ OK AT&E714017198&W0 OK AT&B512 OK
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
From the mbsetup menu #5 "Edit Modem types" configure the ISDN modem
|
||||||
|
type.
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
||||||
|
Init string ATZ\r
|
||||||
|
Init string
|
||||||
|
Init string
|
||||||
|
OK string OK
|
||||||
|
Hangup \d\p\p\p+++\d\p\p\pATH0\r
|
||||||
|
Info command ATI2\r
|
||||||
|
Dial command ATD\T\r
|
||||||
|
Connect CONNECT 64000
|
||||||
|
Connect CONNECT
|
||||||
|
[...]
|
||||||
|
Reset cmd ATZ\r
|
||||||
|
Error string BUSY
|
||||||
|
Error string NO CARRIER
|
||||||
|
Error string NO DIALTONE
|
||||||
|
Error string NO ANSWER
|
||||||
|
Error string RING\r
|
||||||
|
Error string ERROR
|
||||||
|
Error string
|
||||||
|
Error string
|
||||||
|
Error string
|
||||||
|
Error string
|
||||||
|
Cost offset 0
|
||||||
|
EMSI speed 28800 ! not relevant for ISDN
|
||||||
|
Strip dashes No
|
||||||
|
Available Yes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
And from #6 "Edit TTY lines info" the ISDN lines
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
TTY name ISDN Line 1
|
||||||
|
Device name ttyI0
|
||||||
|
Phone or DNS 31-71-4015437
|
||||||
|
Line speed 64 kbits
|
||||||
|
Fido flags CM,XA,MO,X75
|
||||||
|
Equipment ISDN
|
||||||
|
Available Yes
|
||||||
|
Auth. log No
|
||||||
|
Honor ZMH Yes
|
||||||
|
Callout Yes
|
||||||
|
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
||||||
|
Locked speed 0 ! not relevant for ISDN
|
||||||
|
EMSI name The Wizard's ISDN line 1
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
TTY name ISDN Line 2
|
||||||
|
Device name ttyI1
|
||||||
|
Phone or DNS 31-71-4017198
|
||||||
|
Line speed 64 kbits
|
||||||
|
Fido flags CM,XA,MO,X75
|
||||||
|
Equipment ISDN
|
||||||
|
Available Yes
|
||||||
|
Auth. log No
|
||||||
|
Honor ZMH Yes
|
||||||
|
Callout Yes
|
||||||
|
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
||||||
|
Locked speed 0
|
||||||
|
EMSI name The Wizard's ISDN line 2
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
T-t-that's all folks :))
|
||||||
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
|
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="4.2">Q 4.2</a></td><td>
|
||||||
|
How do I use GoldED together with MBSE?
|
||||||
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.2</td><td>
|
||||||
|
Since MBSE BBS version 0.33.12 GoldED and MBSE BBS can be used together
|
||||||
|
without problems as long as you use it to read the sysop mail. The
|
||||||
|
mbsetup program can export a file called /opt/mbse/etc/golded.inc which
|
||||||
|
will contain your main Aka's, Aka matching, sysop name and all your mail
|
||||||
|
areas. This file is only (re)created if you change the global settings or
|
||||||
|
one of the mail areas. The first time you must force this by making a change
|
||||||
|
somewhere.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Now create /opt/mbse/etc/golded.cfg, here is what I wrote:
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
; GoldED.cfg
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
; Internet Addressing
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
INTERNETADDRESS Michiel_Broek@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org
|
||||||
|
INTERNETGATE UUCP 2:292/875
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
OUTBOUNDPATH /opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound
|
||||||
|
REPLYLINK chain
|
||||||
|
STYLECODES yes
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
; MESSAGE READER
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
DISPMSGSIZE KBYTES
|
||||||
|
DISPATTACHSIZE KBYTES
|
||||||
|
DISPLOCALHIGH YES
|
||||||
|
DISPPAGEBAR YES
|
||||||
|
VIEWHIDDEN YES
|
||||||
|
VIEWKLUDGE NO
|
||||||
|
VIEWQUOTE YES
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
INCLUDE /opt/mbse/etc/golded.inc
|
||||||
|
;
|
||||||
|
; The end.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
Put in /opt/mbse/.profile the following line:
|
||||||
|
export GOLDED=$HOME/etc
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
When you now start GoldED you use it as the sysop. Make sure that the sysop's
|
||||||
|
userrecord is the first user in the MBSE BBS userbase. If not, the lastread
|
||||||
|
pointers are not right. The GoldED nodelist compiler can be added to the setup
|
||||||
|
in menu 18.
|
||||||
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
|
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<hr>
|
||||||
|
<h3><a name="5">5. Doors setup.</h3>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="5.1">Q 5.1</a></td><td>
|
||||||
|
How do I run DOS doors under MBSE BBS?
|
||||||
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 5.1</td><td>
|
||||||
<pre>Written by: Redy Rodriguez, sysop of Parolas BBS 2:348/609
|
<pre>Written by: Redy Rodriguez, sysop of Parolas BBS 2:348/609
|
||||||
Fidonet: Redy rodriguez 2:348/609
|
Fidonet: Redy rodriguez 2:348/609
|
||||||
Email: redy@users.sourceforge.net
|
Email: redy@users.sourceforge.net
|
||||||
@ -473,7 +645,7 @@ in /opt/mbse/bin:
|
|||||||
# by Redy Rodriguez and Michiel Broek.
|
# by Redy Rodriguez and Michiel Broek.
|
||||||
#
|
#
|
||||||
DOOR=`basename $0`
|
DOOR=`basename $0`
|
||||||
COMMANDO="\"door $DOOR $*\r\""
|
COMMANDO="\" door $DOOR $*\r\""
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
/usr/bin/sudo /opt/mbse/bin/bbsdoor.sh $DOOR $1
|
/usr/bin/sudo /opt/mbse/bin/bbsdoor.sh $DOOR $1
|
||||||
/usr/bin/sudo /opt/dosemu/bin/dosemu.bin \
|
/usr/bin/sudo /opt/dosemu/bin/dosemu.bin \
|
||||||
@ -586,168 +758,233 @@ Now we execute mbsetup and enter the menu setup to add an entrance like this
|
|||||||
</pre>
|
</pre>
|
||||||
And that is everything...
|
And that is everything...
|
||||||
</td></tr></table>
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
<a href='#_Doors'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<table width=100%>
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="4.2">Q 4.2</a></td><td>
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="5.2">Q 5.2</a></td><td>
|
||||||
How to set up MBSE for ISDN.
|
Dosemu compile tips
|
||||||
</td></tr>
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.2</td><td>
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 5.2</td><td>
|
||||||
Contributed by: J. Beekhuizen, 2:280/1018
|
Dosemu still exhibits some file locking behaviour and this needs to be
|
||||||
|
overcome, especially if you are running multinode door games. The
|
||||||
|
following information was written by Bob Newell of Chung Kuo BBS (telnet
|
||||||
|
chungkuo.org) and I reiterate it here.
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
Of course, you have to configure and build your kernel for ISDN support
|
There is an issue in that Linux file locking does not map precisely to
|
||||||
and the correct drivers for your card. It is beyond the scope of this
|
DOS file locking. You need to patch DOSEMU and build a special version
|
||||||
document to explain how to do that.
|
to deal with this problem. Find the file "dosext/mfs/mfs.c" in your
|
||||||
|
DOSEMU source tree. Locate the following lines:
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
case DENY_ANY:
|
||||||
|
fl.l_type = F_RDLCK;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Change the second line to
|
||||||
|
fl.l_type = !writing ? F_RDLCK : F_WRLCK;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
and build a new version of DOSEMU.
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
To your /etc/inittab file add the following lines for your ISDN devices
|
To solve a problem of slow screen painting, locate "base/async/int.c"
|
||||||
ttyI0 and ttyI1.
|
in your source tree. Locate
|
||||||
<pre>
|
<pre>
|
||||||
# ISDN lines
|
case 0x2C:
|
||||||
I1:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 4 -i /opt/mbse/etc/issue ttyI0
|
|
||||||
I2:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 4 -i /opt/mbse/etc/issue ttyI1
|
and just below, comment out or delete the line
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
usleep(INT2F_IDLE_USECS);
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</pre>
|
</pre>
|
||||||
To your mgetty.config file
|
and rebuild your DOSEMU.
|
||||||
[/usr/local/etc/mgetty_sendfax/mgetty.config on my system]
|
|
||||||
set up the ttyI0 and ttyI1 ports. With AT&E you set the
|
|
||||||
MSN/EAZ the device should listen to. This should for an MSN be
|
|
||||||
your telephone number <b>with</b> the area code but
|
|
||||||
<b>without</b> the leading 0. For an EAZ the last digit of your EAZ.
|
|
||||||
<p>
|
|
||||||
The ISDN ports
|
|
||||||
<pre>
|
|
||||||
port ttyI0
|
|
||||||
modem-type data
|
|
||||||
init-chat "" ATZ OK AT&E714015437&W0 OK AT&B512 OK
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
port ttyI1
|
|
||||||
modem-type data
|
|
||||||
init-chat "" ATZ OK AT&E714017198&W0 OK AT&B512 OK
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</pre>
|
|
||||||
From the mbsetup menu #5 "Edit Modem types" configure the ISDN modem
|
|
||||||
type.
|
|
||||||
<pre>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
|
||||||
Init string ATZ\r
|
|
||||||
Init string
|
|
||||||
Init string
|
|
||||||
OK string OK
|
|
||||||
Hangup \d\p\p\p+++\d\p\p\pATH0\r
|
|
||||||
Info command ATI2\r
|
|
||||||
Dial command ATD\T\r
|
|
||||||
Connect CONNECT 64000
|
|
||||||
Connect CONNECT
|
|
||||||
[...]
|
|
||||||
Reset cmd ATZ\r
|
|
||||||
Error string BUSY
|
|
||||||
Error string NO CARRIER
|
|
||||||
Error string NO DIALTONE
|
|
||||||
Error string NO ANSWER
|
|
||||||
Error string RING\r
|
|
||||||
Error string ERROR
|
|
||||||
Error string
|
|
||||||
Error string
|
|
||||||
Error string
|
|
||||||
Error string
|
|
||||||
Cost offset 0
|
|
||||||
EMSI speed 28800 ! not relevant for ISDN
|
|
||||||
Strip dashes No
|
|
||||||
Available Yes
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</pre>
|
|
||||||
And from #6 "Edit TTY lines info" the ISDN lines
|
|
||||||
<pre>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
TTY name ISDN Line 1
|
|
||||||
Device name ttyI0
|
|
||||||
Phone or DNS 31-71-4015437
|
|
||||||
Line speed 64 kbits
|
|
||||||
Fido flags CM,XA,MO,X75
|
|
||||||
Equipment ISDN
|
|
||||||
Available Yes
|
|
||||||
Auth. log No
|
|
||||||
Honor ZMH Yes
|
|
||||||
Callout Yes
|
|
||||||
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
|
||||||
Locked speed 0 ! not relevant for ISDN
|
|
||||||
EMSI name The Wizard's ISDN line 1
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
TTY name ISDN Line 2
|
|
||||||
Device name ttyI1
|
|
||||||
Phone or DNS 31-71-4017198
|
|
||||||
Line speed 64 kbits
|
|
||||||
Fido flags CM,XA,MO,X75
|
|
||||||
Equipment ISDN
|
|
||||||
Available Yes
|
|
||||||
Auth. log No
|
|
||||||
Honor ZMH Yes
|
|
||||||
Callout Yes
|
|
||||||
Modem type ISDN Linux
|
|
||||||
Locked speed 0
|
|
||||||
EMSI name The Wizard's ISDN line 2
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</pre>
|
|
||||||
T-t-that's all folks :))
|
|
||||||
</td></tr></table>
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
<a href='#_Doors'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="5.3">Q 5.3</a></td><td>
|
||||||
|
Setting up for InterBBS games.
|
||||||
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 5.3</td><td>
|
||||||
|
With most BBS games you will need 2 directories in your dos filesystem
|
||||||
|
area. One for the inbound packets and one for netmail messages door
|
||||||
|
games produce to send outbound packets.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
The easiest way to solve this is by creating symlinks from your MBSE
|
||||||
|
directories into the directory where your dos doors live (c:\doors). The
|
||||||
|
2 directories you wish to link are /opt/mbse/var/inbound and
|
||||||
|
/opt/mbse/var/msgs - link them into your dos directories doors directory
|
||||||
|
with the same names ie: "inbound" and "msgs". Now according to dosemu
|
||||||
|
you will have a c:\doors\inbound and a c:\doors\msgs
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
For my example I will use the InterBBS dos door game called Barren
|
||||||
|
Realms Elite (BRE for short).
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
3a. I install Bre in c:\doors\bre and setup the necessary files for its
|
||||||
|
execution as a dos door from MBSE as per the dos doors faq.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
3b. I tell Bre (in its BBS.CFG) that the path for inbound packets is
|
||||||
|
c:\doors\inbound and the netmail path is c:\doors\msgs
|
||||||
|
Bre will now automatically process all inbound packets it finds in the
|
||||||
|
inbound directory for itself. It needs no assistance as it merely
|
||||||
|
searches for the correct filename in the directory.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
3c. We need a script to process the Bre outbound packets and add them to
|
||||||
|
MBSE's outbound path so they are sent. A perl script on how to do this
|
||||||
|
follows (with comments ).
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
This script should be owned by user "mbse" and have the permissions
|
||||||
|
(chmod 755) -rwxr-xr-x. It is best kept in /opt/mbse/bin with your dos
|
||||||
|
game executing scripts. I call this script "dos_poll"
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
#!/usr/bin/perl -U
|
||||||
|
use File::Basename;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
# Define the variable for the outbound file that this script
|
||||||
|
# must create. See Note 1.
|
||||||
|
$bre48_file = "/opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound/028003ba.flo";
|
||||||
|
# Define the linux path to Bre's outbound directory
|
||||||
|
$bre48_path = "/opt/mbse/dos/doors/bre48/OUTBOUND";
|
||||||
|
# Define the linux path to the "msgs" directory
|
||||||
|
$msg_path = "/opt/mbse/var/msgs";
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
opendir(DIR, "$bre48_path") || die;
|
||||||
|
@dirlist = readdir(DIR);
|
||||||
|
closedir(DIR);
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
foreach $filename (@dirlist){
|
||||||
|
($filenameOnly, $pathname, $fileExtension) = fileparse($filename, '\..*');
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
# Below '048b0201' is the packet name Bre creates. You can find out what
|
||||||
|
# your packet name is by running BRE PLANETARY and then checking inside
|
||||||
|
# the Bre OUTBOUND directory - note no ext on name.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
if($filenameOnly eq "048b0201") {
|
||||||
|
$bre48 = "^$bre48_path/$filename";
|
||||||
|
open(FILE, ">>$bre48_file");
|
||||||
|
print FILE "$bre48\n";
|
||||||
|
close(FILE);
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
chmod 0664, "$bre48_file";
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
opendir(DIR, "$msg_path") || die;
|
||||||
|
@dirlist1 = readdir(DIR);
|
||||||
|
closedir(DIR);
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
foreach $filename (@dirlist1){
|
||||||
|
($filenameOnly, $pathname, $fileExtension) = fileparse($filename, '\..*');
|
||||||
|
if($fileExtension eq ".msg") {
|
||||||
|
unlink "$msg_path/$filename";
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
system "touch /opt/mbse/sema/scanout";
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
Note 1. To find out what the outbound file is simply send a netmail
|
||||||
|
attach via MBSE to your uplink system for the Bre game. MBSE will create
|
||||||
|
a file in your outbound directory as a series of numbers with the
|
||||||
|
extension .flo (or hlo). Inside this file will merely be the path to the
|
||||||
|
file attached, but it is the name of the flo file that we require. No
|
||||||
|
matter what file you attach or when you attach it, the outbound flo file
|
||||||
|
will always have the same name as it represents the node number it is
|
||||||
|
being sent to. Thus if you were file attaching to 3:640/954 your flo
|
||||||
|
file would be "028003ba.flo" as in the example. Once you find out the
|
||||||
|
filename substitute it in the script above.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
What the above script does:
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
The perl script merely reads the Bre outbound directory and looks for
|
||||||
|
files with the name of the that you tell it (sample one is 048b0201).
|
||||||
|
The script removes the extension from the filenames to get a match.
|
||||||
|
If it finds a match it creates a file, the "$bre48_file", which is the
|
||||||
|
.flo you specified in the correct outbound directory. Inside this file
|
||||||
|
it merely gives the path to the Bre outbound attach file and adds a ^
|
||||||
|
before it (so MBSE deletes it after sending).
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Then it goes into your "msgs" directory and deletes everything in there.
|
||||||
|
It does not use the netmails written by the games at all, it just
|
||||||
|
deletes them to stop them filling up your hard drive.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Then it tells MBSE to scan the outbound. If it created a flo file and
|
||||||
|
that system is a direct or crash link MBSE will poll and send the file
|
||||||
|
straight away.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
If you have more InterBBS games the procedure is the same, just copy and
|
||||||
|
edit the first part (relating to BRE) and add new variables for other
|
||||||
|
games. The script only needs to clear the msgs directory once and to
|
||||||
|
scan the outbound once. You only need one script to service a multitude
|
||||||
|
of games.
|
||||||
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
|
<a href='#_Doors'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<table width=100%>
|
<table width=100%>
|
||||||
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="4.3">Q 4.3</a></td><td>
|
<tr><td width=50 valign=top><a name="5.4">Q 5.4</a></td><td>
|
||||||
How do I use GoldED together with MBSE?
|
Door Maintenance.
|
||||||
</td></tr>
|
</td></tr>
|
||||||
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.3</td><td>
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 5.4</td><td>
|
||||||
Since MBSE BBS version 0.33.12 GoldED and MBSE BBS can be used together
|
Ok, so you can setup doors, run inbound and outbound for interbbs games.
|
||||||
without problems as long as you use it to read the sysop mail. The
|
So how do you do maintenance?
|
||||||
mbsetup program can export a file called /opt/mbse/etc/golded.inc which
|
<br>
|
||||||
will contain your main Aka's, Aka matching, sysop name and all your mail
|
Again by scripts. Again I will use BRE as an example. First I create a
|
||||||
areas. This file is only (re)created if you change the global settings or
|
maintenance batch file in my C: root directory. I have called it
|
||||||
one of the mail areas. The first time you must force this by making a change
|
maint.bat and for the bre game it looks like this:
|
||||||
somewhere.
|
|
||||||
<p>
|
|
||||||
Now create /opt/mbse/etc/golded.cfg, here is what I wrote:
|
|
||||||
<pre>
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
; GoldED.cfg
|
cd \doors\bre
|
||||||
;
|
BRE INBOUND
|
||||||
; Internet Addressing
|
BRE SCORES
|
||||||
;
|
BRE REQUEST
|
||||||
INTERNETADDRESS Michiel_Broek@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org
|
BRE PLANETARY
|
||||||
INTERNETGATE UUCP 2:292/875
|
exitemu
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
OUTBOUNDPATH /opt/mbse/var/bso/outbound
|
|
||||||
REPLYLINK chain
|
|
||||||
STYLECODES yes
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
; MESSAGE READER
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
DISPMSGSIZE KBYTES
|
|
||||||
DISPATTACHSIZE KBYTES
|
|
||||||
DISPLOCALHIGH YES
|
|
||||||
DISPPAGEBAR YES
|
|
||||||
VIEWHIDDEN YES
|
|
||||||
VIEWKLUDGE NO
|
|
||||||
VIEWQUOTE YES
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
INCLUDE /opt/mbse/etc/golded.inc
|
|
||||||
;
|
|
||||||
; The end.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</pre>
|
</pre>
|
||||||
Put in /opt/mbse/.profile the following line:
|
if you are familiar with Bre you will know this to be a standard sort of
|
||||||
export GOLDED=$HOME/etc
|
maintenance except for the "exitemu" at the end. That is there because
|
||||||
|
we are going to use a script to start dosemu and call the maint.bat - so
|
||||||
|
afterwards we need it to exit dosemu.
|
||||||
|
<br>
|
||||||
|
Now a maintenance script to be called from your cron or whatever else
|
||||||
|
you are using to execute events on your system. I call this script
|
||||||
|
"dos_maint" and it also lives in /opt/mbse/bin
|
||||||
|
<pre>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
#!/bin/sh
|
||||||
|
#
|
||||||
|
COMMANDO="\" maint \r\""
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
/usr/bin/sudo dosemu -dumb -E dir > /opt/mbse/log/dos.log -quiet -I "`echo keystroke $COMMANDO`"
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
/opt/mbse/bin/dos_poll
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</pre>
|
||||||
|
You will notice this script starts dosemu and calls maint.bat, and then
|
||||||
|
when its finished there it calls the dos_poll script discussed earlier.
|
||||||
|
Please note the second line is all ONE line, it has most probably
|
||||||
|
wrapped here.
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
When you now start GoldED you use it as the sysop. Make sure that the sysop's
|
You will notice that the script calls dosemu and not dosemu.bin, this is
|
||||||
userrecord is the first user in the MBSE BBS userbase. If not, the lastread
|
because we need to tell dosemu to open a dumb terminal and not display
|
||||||
pointers are not right. The GoldED nodelist compiler can be added to the setup
|
to a console or screen. By use of the redirection we redirect the normal
|
||||||
in menu 18.
|
console output to a file, here I have used /opt/mbse/log/dos/log as that
|
||||||
|
is where all of MBSE's other logs reside.
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Once "dos_maint" is run via the cron it will run maintenance on your dos
|
||||||
|
doors, process inbound/outbound interBBS game packets and get MBSE to
|
||||||
|
poll to send packets. Thats about all ther is to do :)
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Have fun!
|
||||||
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
Rick Van Ruth 3:640/954 (ricta@ricta.net)
|
||||||
</td></tr></table>
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
<a href='#_Doors'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- Empty reply block for cut & paste:
|
<!-- Empty reply block for cut & paste:
|
||||||
@ -758,7 +995,7 @@ Question?
|
|||||||
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.1</td><td>
|
<tr><td valign=top>A 4.1</td><td>
|
||||||
Answer
|
Answer
|
||||||
</td></tr></table>
|
</td></tr></table>
|
||||||
<a href='#_BBSsetup'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
<a href='#_Doors'><img src='images/hand.up.gif' border=0 alt='Up'></a>
|
||||||
<p>
|
<p>
|
||||||
-->
|
-->
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|||||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user