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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 01-Mar-2007</h5></div>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 02-Sep-2007</h5></div>
<div align="center"><h1>MBSE BBS Basic Installation</h1></div>
<h3>Introduction.</h3>
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<li><b>Bzlib</b>. On some distributions you need to install <b>bzlib2 development</b> to add
support for binkp BZ2 compression.</li>
</ol>
If you use Gentoo or Ubuntu, read the files README.Gentoo of README.Ubuntu. The last one may be usefull
for Debian users too.
<P>&nbsp;<p>
<h3>Step 1: planning the filesystems.</h3>
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cd mbsebbs-@VERSION@
bash ./SETUP.sh
</pre>
Ubuntu users should do:
<pre>
cd mbsebbs-@VERSION@
sudo bash ./SETUP.sh
</pre>
Yes, use <b>bash</b> as shell here. On some systems root doesn't use bash
as login shell, calling the script with bash forces the use of bash.
The script does the following:
<ol>
<li>Create the group <strong>bbs</strong>
<li>Create the user <strong>mbse</strong>
<li>Create the user <strong>mbse</strong> On Ubuntu this user is added to the admin group.
<li>Create a <strong>.profile</strong> for user <strong>mbse</strong>
<li>Create and set owner of directory tree under /opt/mbse
</ol>
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make install
exit
</pre>
Ubuntu users should do:
<pre>
cd ~/mbsebbs-@VERSION@
./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
make
sudo make install
</pre>
<b>Important:</b> it seems logical to use the <code>--enable-newsgate</code> option
but it isn't. When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve
echomail as news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the
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<pre>
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mbsed start
</pre>
Ubuntu users do:
<pre>
sudo /etc/init.d/mbsebbs start
</pre>
This will start the <b>mbtask</b> daemon.
After that the bbs will be opened for use.
Check the file <b>/opt/mbse/log/mbtask.log</b> for startup problems.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 21-Jan-2004</h5></div>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 02-Sep-2007</h5></div>
<div align="center"><h1>Upgrade MBSE BBS</h1></div>
<h3>Introduction.</h3>
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password: <em>enter root password here</em>
make install
</pre>
Ubuntu users should do:
<pre>
cd ~/mbsebbs-@VERSION@
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
</pre>
The last part of the installation procedure shows you the location of the bbs
startup script that is added to your system. Remember this one for a moment.
<p>
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/etc/rc.d/init.d/mbsed reload
exit
</pre>
Ubuntu users do:
<pre>
sudo /etc/init.d/mbsebbs restart
</pre>
This will close the bbs, kill <b>mbtask</b>, start the new <b>mbtask</b> and open
the bbs again for use. At this point you may need to update some configuration settings
with <b>mbsetup</b>. Read the ChangeLog for the details. The ChangeLog may also describe a