From aaee430a6f8b8a340116b15ee2a27994156bbf25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michiel Broek
-Don't use UMSDOS or SAMBA filesystems for the bbs, stick by the standard Linux
+Don't use UMSDOS or SAMBA filesystems for the bbs, stick by the standard
+GNU/Linux
filesystems (ext2, ext3 or reiserfs) or ufs if you use FreeBSD.
If you intent to make your bbs also accessible
by FTP and WWW you must create the directory structure under the ftp user
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ configuration files, these are ttyinfo, modems, fidonet networks. In the
default (english) directory you now have default menu datafiles and ansi
screens. These are copies of my test system so you have to edit them to
build your own bbs.
-Linux is available in several distributions, they all have advantages and
+GNU/Linux is available in several distributions, they all have advantages and
disadvantages for bbs use. Which distribution to pick is very personal.
Since late 2001 a port to FreeBSD is available, from version 0.33.19 this
port is ready to use.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ I write this as if these are the same which isn't true of course. From MBSE
BBS's point of view they are almost the same, so that's why I treat them as
the same distributions. The E-Smith server and gateway based on Redhat is also
supported.
-For people with little Linux experience these
+For people with little GNU/Linux experience these
distributions are a good choice if you can spare the diskspace. I haven't
found a simple dedicated setup for the bbs, so the safest way is to install
allmost everything, which is quite simple. This will cost you about 1200 Megs.
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ You may need to build mgetty yourself if you have an older FreeBSD distribution.
I use an old Sun Sparcstation 2 with NetBSD 1.5.2. This is more stable then
-Linux on Sparc systems. Only network connections are tested.
+GNU/Linux on Sparc systems. Only network connections are tested.
-I don't have the diskspace for all kinds of Linux distributions to install
-at the same time, with the current size of Linux, I only have 2 versions
+I don't have the diskspace for all kinds of GNU/Linux distributions to install
+at the same time, with the current size of GNU/Linux, I only have 2 versions
installed. Also, I don't buy every new distro that's available. If you have
a problem with that, just send me the new distro on CD to test by snailmail.
diff --git a/html/faq.html b/html/faq.html
index 8d4648c4..c8fa772d 100644
--- a/html/faq.html
+++ b/html/faq.html
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Authors: P.E. Kimble aka King Kimerud kimerud@bayhaus.org
This FAQ is a work in progress. It is not complete, nor does its author
claim that it is complete. This FAQ only answers questions pertaining to
-using MBSE BBS on your Linux box. It is a compilation of previous questions
+using MBSE BBS on your GNU/Linux box. It is a compilation of previous questions
that Michiel Broek has recieved and answered from us newbies in getting
MBSE up & running.
/opt/mbse/var/unknown 0750 Unprotected inbound directory
-Editing ansi screens can be done on a Linux system with
+Editing ansi screens can be done on a GNU/Linux system with
duhdraw,
this is available from 2:280/2802 as duhdraw.tgz (68 Kbytes).
The binaries are included in this archive, if you compile it yourself
diff --git a/html/dist.html b/html/dist.html
index 4d87569b..0951f14d 100644
--- a/html/dist.html
+++ b/html/dist.html
@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@
-
-
Last update 28-Sep-2002
Last update 15-Aug-2003
Unix Distributions.
Which distribution
NetBSD
Famous last words...
Introduction
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ out.
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ can download dosemu.1.02.tgz from www.dosemu.org
MS/DOS, and that is the one that I use, but I'm sure that many doors
could work correctly with the freedos. You also need sudo. Sudo
is a utility that let's ordinary users execute certain programs as superuser,
- this is available with almost all Linux distributions. A 1.2
- Currently only on most Linux distributions, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
+ Currently only on most GNU/Linux distributions, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
The author, Michiel Broek, has made a valiant effort ensuring that
-MBSE will recognize and install on the major distributions of Linux.
+MBSE will recognize and install on the major distributions of GNU/Linux.
COMPILING DOSEMU
Unpack dosemu in some directory, for example /usr/src, then changed into that directory and execute 'make'. When this is ready we have @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ of the doors. If you need another format you must use a converter to change chungkuo.org) and I reiterate it here. -
There is an issue in that Linux file locking does not map precisely +
There is an issue in that GNU/Linux file locking does not map precisely to DOS file locking. You need to patch DOSEMU and build a special version to deal with this problem. Find the file "dosext/mfs/mfs.c" in your DOSEMU source tree. Locate the following lines:
diff --git a/html/flow.html b/html/flow.html index 210ac393..860161cd 100644 --- a/html/flow.html +++ b/html/flow.html @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ I have made several scripts for this, daily, weekly and monthly.-Because Linux is a 32 bit os, not bothered with a graphical user interface +Because GNU/Linux is a 32 bit os, not bothered with a graphical user interface (unless you install it), it has all the time in the world to serve your bbs programs. Background programs are build to release time to the Unix os, they don't need to run fast because it's background processing. The bbs and diff --git a/html/intro.html b/html/intro.html index 166244b8..3172525f 100644 --- a/html/intro.html +++ b/html/intro.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ -
For the menus to work properly you can draw ANSI screens, this
-is what the users will see. For Linux there is "Duh DRAW" written by Ben
+is what the users will see. For GNU/Linux there is "Duh DRAW" written by Ben
Fowler, see sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Lunux/docs.
If you can't find it or have no internet access, you can also use
THEDRAW. This utility can be found on many BBS'es around the world. Unfortunatly
-it is a DOS program so you will need dosemu on your Linux box or a seperate
+it is a DOS program so you will need dosemu on your GNU/Linux box or a seperate
DOS computer. You can define main screens and include screens for each
menu, the include screen may for example show the keys that you have available
in every menu. See the list of control codes.
diff --git a/html/mgetty.html b/html/mgetty.html
index 11116f0b..d8da3e4d 100644
--- a/html/mgetty.html
+++ b/html/mgetty.html
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ before the login prompt.
It could look like this:
- .--. Welcome at MBSE BBS Development. - |o_o | -------------------------------- - |:_/ | - // \ \ This may or may not work today... - (| | ) - /'\_ _/`\ - \___)=(___/ -Powered by Linux. + .--. Welcome at MBSE BBS Development. + |o_o | -------------------------------- + |:_/ | + // \ \ This may or may not work today... + (| | ) + /'\_ _/`\ + \___)=(___/ +Powered by GNU/Linux.There is a default /opt/mbse/etc/issue installed by the installation script. diff --git a/html/misc/usleep.html b/html/misc/usleep.html index 8cf6f244..63d3c0b2 100644 --- a/html/misc/usleep.html +++ b/html/misc/usleep.html @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ these programs and users couldn't login during that time. Starting with mball, the allfiles creator, I inserted code that does usleep(1) after each 5 processed files. The 1 microsecond is not really the time the program pauses, it's probably a lot longer. I think this depends on the -hardware type, (Intel, Sparc, Alpha etc) how long Linux will really suspends +hardware type, (Intel, Sparc, Alpha etc) how long GNU/Linux will really suspends executing the utility. The program speed downgrade at the development machine that mball needed was diff --git a/html/misc/webserver.html b/html/misc/webserver.html index 5f1fbe66..dc2171e3 100644 --- a/html/misc/webserver.html +++ b/html/misc/webserver.html @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Note that even if you don't setup a webserver you must still create a structure like this for the fidonet mailer, if you don't, mail and files will get lost! This description is written for Apache, -this is installed on most Linux and xxxBSD distributions. +this is installed on most GNU/Linux and xxxBSD distributions. For the directory structure, read the setup for the FTP server.
diff --git a/html/nodelist.html b/html/nodelist.html
index c462c4d6..723f618e 100644
--- a/html/nodelist.html
+++ b/html/nodelist.html
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ new NODELIST.014 is created there, a compressed
nodelist.z14 is created there and NODELIST.007 is
removed.
If this operation fails, only NODELIST.007 will stay
in that directory.
-Because the ARC program for Linux isn't good for files, I
+Because the ARC program for GNU/Linux isn't good for files, I
left the Arc files command empty in the archiver setup. As a fallback the
mbdiff program uses zip to create the compressed archive.
If creating the new nodelist fails for some reason, a missed diff or so,
diff --git a/html/programs/mbaff.html b/html/programs/mbaff.html
index cff3c5b9..dd498d7c 100644
--- a/html/programs/mbaff.html
+++ b/html/programs/mbaff.html
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ file is erased and the mailout semafore set.
The files to announce are divided into groups, the names of the groups are
set in the file download areas. If you plan this well, you can make seperate
announcements for several networks, announce files bij groups of file, ie. HAM
-or .jpg pictures, Linux etc.
+or .jpg pictures, GNU/Linux etc.
When mbaff diff --git a/html/programs/mblogin.html b/html/programs/mblogin.html index 3d261d89..11d7d48e 100644 --- a/html/programs/mblogin.html +++ b/html/programs/mblogin.html @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ from another terminal. If you make a mistake and can't login anymore you will be glad that you are still logged in on another terminal. Here are the tested setups:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -L /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin
mbpasswd is the wrapper for the passwd program -is present on all Linux systems. To use passwd to change the password of +is present on all GNU/Linux systems. To use passwd to change the password of another user is only allowed by root. The mbpasswd program overcomes this limitation. The wrapper mbpasswd is run from the bbs by user mbse when a new user is being registered to set his password. It can also be started from the diff --git a/html/programs/mbuseradd.html b/html/programs/mbuseradd.html index e3d5247d..5d2990db 100644 --- a/html/programs/mbuseradd.html +++ b/html/programs/mbuseradd.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
mbuseradd is the wrapper for the useradd
-program that should be present on most Linux systems. useradd
+program that should be present on most GNU/Linux systems. useradd
may only be executed by root and there are some other minor
things that need to be done as root to create a new Unix
account that can be used with MBSE BBS. The solution for these problems is
diff --git a/html/setup/global.html b/html/setup/global.html
index b40947f1..673e53e6 100644
--- a/html/setup/global.html
+++ b/html/setup/global.html
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ is the full path and filename to an external program that can inspect and
correct the mail .pkt files. Originally I put this in to run pktname of Tobias
Ernst of 2:2476/418 to fix y2k problems in the incoming mail. At this time
most y2k fixes are build in, but in case you need it it's there. To make it
-clear; the y2ktools written by Tobias are static compiled for Linux and they
-should run on all Linux i386 versions. Until now, I still use pktdate because
+clear; the y2ktools written by Tobias are static compiled for GNU/Linux and they
+should run on all GNU/Linux i386 versions. Until now, I still use pktdate because
it is necessary.
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ XX,CM and TCP/IP systems (internet) should use the XX,CM,IBN,IFC flags.1.15. FTPD Settings.
A new program is mbftpd. This is a replacement for the normal -ftp server for Linux with special futures for MBSE BBS. This is not working +ftp server for GNU/Linux with special futures for MBSE BBS. This is not working yet and is not included in the distribution. Setting it up is adviced.
Upload pth Incoming files (ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/incoming). diff --git a/html/setup/virscan.html b/html/setup/virscan.html index e0c30aef..9afada27 100644 --- a/html/setup/virscan.html +++ b/html/setup/virscan.html @@ -19,12 +19,12 @@Once upon a time there was no DOS and no computer virusses. But since DOS was invented as a small OS which was easily extensible, virus writers saw their -chance to easy spread their hacks. Although running a Linux system is +chance to easy spread their hacks. Although running a GNU/Linux system is relative safe, most of the files that you have available on your bbs are DOS based programs. And before you put them available for download, they should be checked for virusses. Macro virusses are a relative new danger, this can also hurt Unix/Linux users.
-There are several scanners for Linux available. Default only two of them +There are several scanners for GNU/Linux available. Default only two of them are setup. You may consult http://www.openantivirus.org for more scanners mentioned in a mini-FAQ maintained by Rainer Link. @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The following scanners are default installed in the setup: