$Id$ WARNING, users of Sparc and HP-PA systems should be carefull, some menus might not work. All other users on Intel machines (99,9% I think) can use this version. v0.37.01 14-Jan-2003. upgrade: After installing the binaries, start mbsetup, enter menu 1 and leave that and save it. This will set the default rules directory, here we will store the area rules of all echomail areas. After upgrade you may remove ~/etc/maptabs and it's contents. After upgrade you may remove ~/etc/bank.data. general: This version may be used on production systems, but be carefull and check your logs. Spanish templates and macros added to the examples. In several messages handling functions the international charset translations are removed because of several bugs. They will be replaced by standard library functions. Right now the messages are 8 bit clean and there is no translation on the gateway. The maptabs are removed. Menu items 22 and 23 are removed, menu 319 is added. You may want to replace the default txtfiles and menus, upgraded versions are in the distribution but are not automatic installed. Documented menu 318, was present for a long time, just not in the html docs. nodelist.a: Added experimental support for IP nodes lookup using a default domain method. This is not the final implementation yet! Update, this works now as described in a FSP-xxxx that is in discussion in the FTSC. This will also work for current practice. common.a: Removed charset conversion/translation. Added integer endian byteorder swapper, usefull for non-Intel hardware. mbtask: Arcmail for non-CM nodes and Txx nodes is now sent during the node's opening hours or ZMH. Fixed a bug where one of the nodelists was node closed with each outbound scan and was causing mbtask to stop functioning after a few days. After forking the daemon, the stdin, stdout and stderr are reopend to /dev/null. Zero the daily status counters finally works again. Added experimental code where tossing mail is not started as long as there are mailers running, but not longer as 30 mins. This should make the whole system less nervous. Modified this code, didn't work, the toss was always started at once. mbfile: In the import function several bugfixes for reading files.bbs. Fixed upper/lowercase filenames bug with import. mbfido: Removed all code for charset translation. In areamgr/filemgr lists the messages are forced splitted when the force limit is reached in the middle of a group listing. The nodes statistocs are expanded with flow counters. If echomail is accepted in a unsecure area or the unsecure commandline option is set, a violation is logged as warning. Removed some debugging tests and log messages. mbdiff: If unpacking a diff file fails, a second attempt is done after a sync and one second delay. mbsetup: Added protection against wrong database sizes depending on global settings. When moving a message area to area zero mbsetup doesn't crash anymore. Added new menu item 319, removed menu items 22 and 23. Added setup for rules directory. Added setup for menu 221. Changed description of menu 103. The menu editor is machine endian independant. mbsebbs: It will now refuse to up/download OLR packets when the system bbs id is not set in the global setup. When a reply is made on a message in a area which allows aliases, the user is asked to use his alias. When a reply is made on a message in a newsgroup and your systems has a permanent mail domain the email address is used as from name. Removed timebank and nextuser doors. Added editing of user's signature file. New menu item 319. If the sysop is exporting a echomail message he will have the option to save to his private directory or to the rules directory. If saved to the rules directory the message will have the filename of the area tag. Normal users can only export to their private directory. Sysops: now you can start collecting area rules! New menu 221, display arearules. This function tries to find the arearules in the rules directory and if found displays this to the user. Fixed whoson list to display user real names and handles again. Fixed send online message to send to user real names, handles and unix names again. The menus are machine endian independant. examples: The English and Dutch templates are updated to show the new nodes flow counters (html.nodes). English textfiles and menus are updated to show the new menu functions. lang: Changed english and dutch language prompts 11, 12, 13 and 107. Changed in other languages as well, but in English. v0.37.00 26-Dec-2002 - 14-Jan-2003 upgrade: In mbsetup 1.17.3 check if you have the XX,CM,IBN,IFC flags, which indicates your TCP/IP capabilities. This is only for systems that use TCP/IP, dialup systems should only have the XX,CM flags. Important: only protocols that you place in this entry are supported, so XX,CM,IBN will let your system only call binkp nodes. general: A new developer/translator joined the team, David Gonzalez. The settings to suppres some IP protocols (global and nodes) are removed, this behaviour must be set using nodelist flags configuration. Debug logging for mail and news now have one setting, the M. Nodelist debug logging now uses the N character. In some makefiles the chown user.group syntax changed to user:group to follow the new POSIX syntax. Please let me know if you are using an older distribution that complains about this. This was needed for FreeBSD 4.7. Added Dutch template macro files. Updated English and German template macro files. Please remove old ones before installing. libs: The nodelist lookup functions are now in a separate library. This will give us easy implemtation of new nodelist formats and flags. Introduced a new file, ~/etc/nodelist.conf, this file will be used for nodelist lookup behaviour. The current looked-up nodelist strcuture has an extra field, the URL how that node must be contacted. mbcico: With binkp and EMSI sessions double received remote aka's are filtered. When calling ITN nodes, the default port is now 23. Call setup changed and uses now the nodelist lookup URL. Changed raw ifcico debug logging. mbout: When a poll was removed, the outbound was not rescanned. examples: Prepared for more example translations. Added German template files made by Joachim Kuwan. script: Added new init script for FreeBSD. mbfile: Move old files to another area failed, only the symbolic link was moved. Prepared for multilanguage html pages creation. mbfido: Echomail from other zones showed the address of your own zone. Added logging when other errors are found. At zonegates, the seenby lines were twice stripped. Another patch to compensate for sysops that pack pascalnet files in fidonet packets and send these messages into the world without zone information. Made the incoming tic files complete case insensitive, mixed case is now processed. If such file is received, the LFN will be set to that name. The magic unpack command now uses the mail unpack command instead of file unpack command so that paths in the archive are junked. mbsebbs: Changed to use the new nodelist lookup methods. mbsetup: Removed global flags No-IBN, IFC and ITN from the setup. Removed nodes flags No-IBN, IFC and ITN from the setup. removed del/rubout/bs keys logging. SETUP.sh Made the script more portable. CRON.sh Removed explanation about Zone Mail Hour, this is obsolete for a long time already. v0.36.00 26-Dec-2002 - stable release update: These are the total update instructions for the upgrade from v0.33.21 until v0.36.00. Read and perform this upgrade with great care, this one is quite complicated. Make sure you don't have download files with case differences in download directories like FileName.zip and FILENAME.ZIP. With this upgrade files with such names will be deleted! Rename them before you upgrade! Make sure your outbound is empty, "mbout stat" should not show anything in the outbounds. You may delete ~/bin/mbfido before you do this so when you deliver all pending mail no new mail will be tossed. New mail will stay in your inbound now. Now backup your whole bbs and download areas! Compile the new bbs programs, do not yet install them. Shutdown the bbs with "mbstat close". Kill the mbtask daemon. Depending on your distribution as root you can do "/etc/rc.d/init.d/mbsed stop", the location may vary. Delete ~/etc/lastcall.data Delete ~/etc/archiver.data Delete ~/etc/virscan.data Because the macro template files are changed and you may have personalized them, these files are not automatic upgraded. If you want them to be upgraded delete all files in ~/english/macro . Now install all new binaries (su to root, make install). Delete ~/bin/mbfido again (to prevent tossing mail). Back as user mbse again, start mbtask by typing mbtask at the commandline. Now you are ready to check and update the changes. Start mbsetup, enter global configuration and exit and save. This will set defaults for area-/filemgr logging and security. The noderecords are updated with new security flags. This will setup the new outbound queue path, default is /opt/mbse/var/queue. The filegroups, ticgroups, tic areas and message areas are updated with default security flags. In mbsetup enter Edit Fidonet Nodes. You might want to check if all the session passwords are still ok. Also check all nodes if the Pack mail flag is ok, this setting now also affects echomail! In nodes screen 1, enter item 2: "Outbox dir" to set a outbox directory if you want that. This will propose a directory name, change that if you like to for example to a system or sysop name. Don't use spaces! Check new settings in nodes setup, screen 6, items 9 and 10. Item 9 does not work if the node uses BBBS and maybe others. If the node uses Allfix or MBSE, 9 and 10 can be Yes. Check TIC magic records (menu 10.4), all filenames tested are now uppercase 8.3 names, adjust your filemasks. In mbsetup enter the Edit Archiver Programs. The new values should now be set. Do the same for Virus scanners. This is all for mbsetup. Run "mbfile check". This will create an error in the logfile for each file! It will update the filenames on disk to have both short and long filenames. Just ignore the errors but check for real deleted files. Now you are ready, install the binaries again so that mbfido is present again and you can toss mail. Do this with "mbstat set mailin", after a while all mail and files will be tossed and you are back in bussines again. Have fun. changes: See all changes from development version 0.35.01 upto 0.33.07. MBSEBBS History. v0.35.07 11-Dec-2002 - 26-Dec-2002 general: On FreeBSD the lsz and lrz programs are found as alternate for lz and sz. common.a: For testing purposes of the ESLF (Extended St. Louis Format) nodelist, debugging is added to show the information in the ESLF lines. Only visible with utilities debug 's'. mbsebbs: With menu 201 there is now a new optional data parameter N. When used if a user selects a different message area, areas with new unread mail are marked with a yellow star. Also with menu 201 these is now options U+ and U-, which takes the user to the next or previous Unread message area. mbfile: The index command displays LFN names in the webpages again. The real download still sends the 8.3 name. mbfido: Better detection of zone information in netmails when netmail was stored in a netmail packet of a different network and the netmail misses a lot of kludges. Better logging of processed netmails. If a TIC file woth lowercase 8.3 filename is received the name is forced to uppercase 8.3. mbcico: Code cleanup in opentcp, better handling of given ports and better logging. v0.35.06 13-Nov-2002 - 11-Dec-2002 templates: The html templates are changed by Joachim Kuwan and now they are valid html files validated at http://validator.w3.org/ This upgrade is not automatic because you might have personal changes in the templates that I do not want to overwrite. Another one changed is areamgr.status, that one had an error and did display garbage for the routevia address. They are in ~/mbsebbs-0.xx.xx/examples/templates.tar and should go into ~/english/macro/ Some other templates are changed because they had spelling errors, you may want to replace all templates. general: Added better support for 8.3 and long filenames by creating symbolic links in the download directories. common.a: Changed the LFN name mangle functions to prevent 8.3 name collisions. Now the basepart is 4 characters followed by the tilde char and then a 3 characters code calculated from the 16 bits crc of the original filename. Original this was base 5 followed by a tilde and 2 characters code calculated from the checksum of the string modulo 1849. Both methods are different then what MS does. Added long extension to 3 char extensions for mpeg, smil, perl, jpeg and tiff. The unpack function doesn't complain anymore when it was testing for the archive format on files smaller then 257 bytes. mbsebbs: Several user input functions don't allow comma's anymore. Uploaded files will now also have a symbolic link to then long filename from the real 8.3 filename. Filesearch on filename now uses regexp to find the files. The caller id didn't show up when the info was available. A user with only a limit on download files or download Kb could not download at all. mbfido: TIC file forwarding now uses a list of qualified systems to forward to, and with this information builds more reliable seen-by lines. Imported tic files with a new banner file in the archive got the wrong filetime in the files database. The mbfile check command would detect and correct this. TIC files added to the bbs will now also have a long filename symbolic link. With TIC file attaches, the filename attached is the 8.3 name. TIC processing completly modified to make better LFN support, internal everything works on the 8.3 filename. When writing ticfiles for downlinks, the To line now depends on the new nodes setting. When writing ticfiles for downlinks, the format of the Seenby lines now depends on the new nodes setting. When adding unpacked mail for a directory node, the mail packets had the wrong filename. Changed some logging to debug with auto create areas. Request messages sent to the uplinks are now logged in the manager logfile. Removed heavy debugging on some parts of RFC message processing. During toss the Nopper code is called to prevent timeout when a very large packet is tossed that takes longer then 10 mins. When more then 1024 dupes were tossed, mbfido crashed because a temp file wasn't closed. The echomail dupecheck doesn't check the seconds of the message date anymore. This will catch some rescanned dupes that modify the seconds of the original messages. mbcico: With filetransfer errors, the attempts counter was not increased. mbfile: Finished complete support for 8.3 and long filenames. The check function now creates symbolic links in the download areas with the 8.3 filename to the long filename so that the files seem to exist under both names. The delete and move functions can now use 8.3 or long filenames as argument. The index function now creates web pages with the uppercase 8.3 filename (including thumbnails) because webservers don't allow downloads from symlinks and the LFN is a symlink. You could allow your webserver to do this but this is a big security hole. mbsetup: In filedatabase editor, if a file is deleted the name is displayed in light blue. Added setup switches in nodes setup, files, to toggle sending advanced seen-by lines and the To line in ticfiles. mbtask: The outbound status didn't show the new error codes. v0.35.05 19-Oct-2002 - 13-Nov-2002. general: There is now a mberrors.h file that defines all errorcodes returned by all programs. faq: Changed the section about ftp feeds. Added Q&A about failing internet polls. mbsebbs: Email posted at the bbs was not signed with the signature. Fixed the bug where the filearea number was lost. This was caused when a user was logged off before the login procedure was complete. If user was displaying the whoson list and there was no matching isdoing action then browsing will be displayed instead of system error. Sends Unix name instead of long name to mbtask. During login the OS and CPU type is displayed. mbnewusr: Sends Unix name instead of long name to mbtask. During login the OS and CPU type is displayed. mbmon: In screen 1, username field decreased ro 8 characters and the doing field is increased to 26 characters. mbcico: Fixed crash with incoming YooHoo session with bad password. Still used the phone override fields for hostname override with internet calls if there was something filled in. For inbound sessions if the remote is listed in some nodelist, mbtask is updated with the sysop name and location. mbout: The stat command now also shows what is on hold for a node with an directory outbound (ftp node). Status is always hold. mbmsg: The summary counters in the logfile are increased to 6 digits. mbsetup: When installing the default unarchivers (new installations) the rar is used to unarchive instead of unrar when available, rar is compiled static and prefered. Added support for the nomarch unarchiver. Files are extracted with the -U switch for nodelists. Removed from Screen 1.13 the unused switches Res Future and Repl ext. Fixed some help texts. Added in screen 1.14 settings for Plus All, Notify, Passwd and Pause. Removed the default Virnet record from the fidonet setup. In node setup the pack netmail switch is renamed and is now for all mail. Default for new records is Yes. Added length check when importing taglines. Now writes also ~/etc/msg.txt for MsgEd after messagebase is updated. When a new echomail area was created with a default group setting, then when the group was selected setup would create the jam basepath itself instead of using the base from the group. New JAM areas will not have spaces anymore in the pathnames. Spaces are replaced by underscores. mbfido: With ticfile processing, the KeepDate setup setting now works. The FileMgr requests now honor the setting of the switches Plus All, Notify, Passwd, Message, Tic on/off and Pause. The AreaMgr reuqests now honor the setting of the switches Plus All, Notify, Passwd and Pause. Echomail is now also packed or not according to the packmail switch in mbsetup. Statistics count for exported echomail now works. Email posted in the email box in full domain mode was refused by SMTP servers because of bad address formatting. Addex extra check to prevent overflow of arcmail packets extension. This is logged with a warning when this happens. If filenames were exhausted and the last one (ending on z) is truncated in the outbound (has been sent already) it is erased before the archiver is called to reuse that filename again. When mail/files were moved to the inbound from a directory node, this was not processed in the same session. Moved the ^aTID kludge to the top of the exported message after the last kludge so people won't complain anymore. With local hatched files, the aka of the tic area was not added to the seenby list. mbtask: Removed debug logging of "does" info. v0.35.04 29-Sep-2002 - 19-Oct-2002. general: Added mail and files security flags for nodes. clcomm.a: Added Mgrlog function, logs default to manager.log. Does also log to Syslog with level '+'. mbfido: Area- and FileMgr requests are now also logged in manager.log Auto created and removed areas are also logged in manager.log Auto created area now get the link security from the group. With message areas auto update it should now only delete missing echomail areas. File attaches to our own points were placed in the node's outbound directory instead of the point outbound. Files and echomail security flags implemented. Echomail rescan will also work with newsgroups. Removed some debug logging with files replace. Fixed trashing news dupes file when mbfido was called multiple times. Improved program locking. Netmail received for a zone/net without netmail board will be stored in the badmail area. mbsetup: Added setup for the nodes record for security flags. Added setup for the ticgroups default security flags. Added setup for the mailgroups default security flags. Added setup for the tic areas security flags. Added setup for the message areas security flags. Menu 14, edit files database had the wrong selection prompt. Fixed backspace/delete key issue. mbmon: Fixed backspace/delete key issue. mbindex: Removed debug logging. v0.35.03 06-Jul-2002 - 29-Sep-2002 general: Now compiles and installs on HP-PARISC hardware, tested with Debian 3.0 on a HP 712/80. common.a: Added nodelist override to the nodelist lookup function. Added protection against emty rfc headers with only a space. Added test for HA archiver. mbinet.a: If during a connect a newsserver refuses the connection then don't close our side of the connection. This is a temporary solution, we should disconnect with timeout instead. lang: Corrected a spelling error in the Dutch language file. mbcico: Changed IsDoing information. Makes use of the node nodelist override settings. Fixed a bug that mbcico refused to do internet calls when one of the No IBN, No ITN or No IFC flags was set. mbout: Makes use of the node nodelist override settings. The file attach function now adds the file to the queue, by setting the semafore mailin mbfido will place the file in the real outbound. mbfido: Rollover now only sets IsDoing when it really does a date rollover. When a new tic area was created the first file received for that area was refused. Fixed a few problems with local UUCP created netmails. Added routing tables for special cases. Most systems don't need this. The route test command now works exactly as netmails do. Implemented directory inbound tossing and outbound queueing. Rewrote the outbound queue system, the queue now works for files also. Removed debug logline with extract of FILE_ID.DIZ. When a file is imported with a name that is already present, the existing filerecord is updated and not replaced. There are people using M$ wordprocessors to create TIC files, there is now better filtering to get that garbage out of the received tic files. We will forward plain ascii of course. Fixed the outbound queue to send to nodes not in the setup. When mbfido stops with error 110 it doesn't remove any locks because this error is only being used before that main lock is made. Changed the error codes during init until the main lock is made, this must prevent destroying a another lock. Added extra check to unlock directory function to check that only the owned lock is removed. newuser: Check for Unix accounts is now case sensitive. Check existing usernames now also checks handles. Check for existing Unix names now also includes the name ping and services names. Check for handle now also checks Unix names. The setting for single usernames does work again. mbsebbs: Check existing usernames now also checks handles. When a user paged the sysop for a chat, after the timer was expired, the bbs crashed. Fixed a problem with extra spaces in UUCP replyto address. Added test for HA archiver. When changing a Handle, Unix names are checked as forbidden names as well. Improved import of FILE_ID.DIZ with file uploads. Only if FILE_ID.DIZ is processed successfull the user will see that this file has been used. Corrected length for manual file description to prevent string overflow. Added missing space in message to user about file unpack. mbtask: Changed logging of multiple logmessages that are equal. Changed semafore debug logmessages. Fixed log problem not always showing the Call flag. Now forces callmode to None if the callflag was cleared. The test to add a node to the calllist now also checks the internal call flag. Makes use of the node nodelist override settings. Added default setting for outbound queue. mbsetup: Enabled setting of nodelist override settings in menu 7.x.3 After nodes setup edit the semafore scanout is set. When a JAM messagebase path is changed in one of the message area, filefind and newfiles records are automatic updated if they were connected to that area. Added setup for routing the table. Corrected several page layouts for printing on A4 paper. Added setup for nodes connected via directories (we are the FTP server side). Added setup setting for outbound queue in global setup. Added support for default setup of the HA archiver. Changed Rubout key to do the same as Backspace. (experimental) mbmon: Changed Rubout key to do the same as Backspace. (experimental) script: The bbsdoor.sh and rundoor.sh scripts are now only installed if they were not installed before. Added better support for different locations of the external editor joe. examples: With the aid of a little utility (endian) the right menus are now installed on little or big endian machines. v0.35.02 22-Jun-2002 - 06-Jul-2002 general: Added checks for GoldED in external program checks. Added new empty path /opt/mbse/var/boxes. Implemented nodes private outbound boxes. Revised the dependencies for all sourcefiles. common.a: Added debug nodelist IFT flag for logging. Added archive detection for tar, gzip and compress. mbsetup: Changed node records layout into 8 screens to be able to add more settings. New settings not in use yet are disabled. Added settings for node contact information. This is private for mbsetup use only. Implemented nodes special outbound box setup. When you enter that item for the first time, it fills this with a suggested path. Changed description and filetype for default tar gzipped files in archiver setup. Added default records for bzip2 and uncompressed tar files. mbcico: Implemented nodes special outbound boxes. Corrected a problem with getting modem aftercall info from ISDN modems. mbout: Implemented nodes special outbound boxes. mbfido: In newsmode when a mesage is received with an illegal formated date headerline, the date is replaced with the current date and time. Possible cause: SunMail 1.0 When reading taglists if there was no description after the tag, mbfido would crash. Filefind netmail replies now set the private flag. Removed debugging messages displaying the incoming tic files. The mbfido test command now needs a extra parameter, the final destination to test. It doesn't use the internal fixed table anymore. mbindex: Fixed a crash when a pointlist contained Point,5,reservered, and nothing more. Added nopper code to prevent timeout on slow systems with large pointlists to compile. mbsebbs: The email address in new created .signature files is only added if global Give Email is true and in the userecord the email is also enabled. The whoson list now supports the /H and /U optional data to display handles or unix names. The send online message now supports the /H and /U optional data to use handles or unix names. The display userlist function now supports the /H and /U optional data to use handles or unix names. The display lastcaller list now also supports the /U optional data to display Unix names. Code cleanup in offline reader. Messages posted using BlueWave format now correct the timezone difference. Messages posted using BlueWave now show the tearline of the OLR client if this is present. When messages are uploaded with BlueWave or QWK the netmail.jam or echomail.jam is updated. With QWK messages upload, if a tearline is already present, it will not be added again. mbmsg: The isdoing messages now has the area number included. mbtask: When first run the goldnode command is only filled in if it exists in the mbtask configuration. Implemented nodes special outbound boxes. Added debug info for isdoing messages. v0.35.01 05-Jun-2002 - 22-Jun-2002 general: Added structures for netmail routing file. Expanded nodes structures for FTP and Directory transfers. Splitted nodes session/mail password in mail and session password. Added more external program checks to get the right paths of archivers, virus scanners etc for default settings in the setup. mbtask: Removed some debug logging and corrected some spelling. The ping test now also works if operations are suspended. Rewrote the ping state machine. mbcico: Now uses the new session password field for session handshake. The binkp version string now includes the OS and CPU type. If a transmitted file via binkp is skipped by the remote it will stay in the queue for the next session. The binkp protocol now supports the CRC option proposed by Tobias Ernst. This unofficial extension is also supported by Irex and patched BinkP versions. Better error handling for error conditions during a binkp session. Fixed a problem with the calculated filetransfer speed with large files on fast connections. mbout: Removed a small memory leak. mbfido: When creating uplink area requests the from aka used is now the aka defined in the group. Removed several memory leaks again. Fixed a bug when a news article was received with a header line without a key value such as created by wrong configured newsreaders. mbfile: Added -v commandline switch to suppress virus checking for the adopt and import commands. Use with great care. mbsebbs: Bluewave reply packets now also process an incoming *.olc file so now bluewave if fully Bluewave V3 compatible. Internally it works by converting the *.olc file to a *.pdq file. Patch made by Redy Rodriguez. mbsetup: Upgrades the nodes records, the new session password is copied from the old combined mail/session password. In nodes submenu 14 the session and mail passwords can now be edited seperatly. This will change again! Archivers, file transfer protocols and virus scanners found during first configure of this program are automatic installed in the setup and enabled. Others are shown there with default paths but are disabled, they can be used as examples. Fixed crashing mbsetup in menus 10.3.2, 10.4.5 and 10.4.6. Menu 1.1 system aka's now has the option to move aka's to other positions. Added some check's on the main aka's. mbtask: The pinger now uses a fixed sequence number to check if this is the problem that sometimes the internet seems down. v0.33.21 04-Jun-2002 This is the final release of the 0.33.20 development version. v0.33.20 10-Feb-2002 - 04-Jun-2002 upgrade: Remove /opt/mbse/etc/safe.data Compile sources and install binaries. Restart the BBS. Enter mbsetup, this will upgrade the databases. Go into global configuration, exit and save, this will update the main configuration (add default macro path). Edit the message groups and file groups for new settings. Run mbfile check to fix download directory permissions. Check the setting in menu 10.2.13 if it does what you want it to do. general: Added structures for area maintenance with area lists. Installing the maptabs don't give any errors anymore when installed as user mbse. The location of the source isn't important anymore to install the maptabs. Updated German, Spanish and Galego languages. The location of the sourcefiles is not important anymore. Added detection of vpopmail in default installation path. Changed language prompts 372, 373, 387, 388, 389, 390 and 438. Added the turbodiesel macro language so that reports can be customized per language and reports. Thanks to Redy Rodriguez for finding this one and implement it into mbse bbs. Splitted the No TCP settings in No IBN, No IFC and No ITN. Removed settings for Non-hold mail and Pickup Primary. Removed several setting for http setup, this is now handled by the macro templates. The rc files for joe, the external editor are now copied to /usr/lib/joe or /etc/joe depending on your distribution. Several readme files are now in a new html file, the FAQ. common.a: Added 2 functions to return the OS name and CPU family. Added a function to return the right tearline. Added support for ext3 filesystem in diskspace check. Fixed lharc archives return code to LHA. Changed mkprod.awk script to support Debian Woody. The aka2str function now onmits the @ if there is no domain information. clcomm.a Added counter for mailer TCP/IP sessions. diesel.a New library for parsing macro templates. msgbase.a: Improved logging for opening message bases. Added function to delete a JAM message base. Fix for corrupting LastRead pointers on FreeBSD systems. mbsetup: In message groups added default settings for auto area creation. Added servicename filemgr to the filemgr services. When adding or deleting a message area, several extra checks are done. The JAM base is also removed when deleting. Layout for message area editor changed, more logical now. If selecting a file/mailgroup in node edit that is outside the visible range of groups, the view is adjusted. If changing the path in an existing file area, the files in that area are moved to the new path. It is now possible to move file areas. It is now possible to move JAM message bases. Added edit of external message editor in menu 1.4. Added edit of NoPrompt setting in menus for doors. Changed edit of message editor in user editor. Double noderecords are automatic removed with error logging. Corrected screen layout in menu 1.4.11. When editing analogue modem lines, the locked portspeed was in a lot of cases set to 0. In newfiles and filefind reports sets default template files during init. When adding a new newfiles or filefind record some defaults are automatic filled in. Splitted no TCP into no IBN, no IFC and no ITN in global and nodes setup. When editing a new message area, and the area was made active, all entered data was erased. Removed setting for http setup which are now in the macro templates. Changed the screen layout of menu 10.2 a bit as suggested by Vince Coen. Fixed a non understandable logmessage in check if nodes are connected to file and or mail groups. It is now possible to reset a users time left for today. The top statusbar now displays the bbs Free/Down/Busy status. Some dangerous menus cannot be entered anymore while some programs are being used, ie. the bbs must be free. When these menus are entered, the bbs will be closed for use. Added menu 8.6, edit BBS list entries. Fixed numbering of menu 8.7, edit oneliners. Added menu 8.8 for safe crackers data. If the safe is cracked it can now be reset. Protected convert-all setting in menus 10.1 and 10.2 when no default archiver is defined. Changed page layout in site.doc Changed the confusing No Touch setting in tic areas to Touch. mbmon: The top statusbar now displays the bbs Free/Down/Busy status. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbfido: In AreaMgr and FileMgr changed aka matching for area connections. Code cleanups. In FileMgr when %tick=on/off command was received, mbfido crashed. Implemented auto area create comparing a new received echo from a uplink which has a echomail taglist in one of the mailgroups defined. The area is created with the defaults from the mailgroup. If mbfido fails to unzip a incoming mailarchive, a second attempt is done after a sync() and one second delay. This seems to be a kernel flush problem. The same goes for adding .pkt files to the outbound, a second try is done after a sync() to add the .pkt to the archive. In the To field of a created TIC file there is now a comma between the sysop name and fidonet aka. When creating a filefind netmail reply there was no destination address. Corrected spelling errors in the Areamgr and Filemgr help messages. Removed some debug logging from the RFC->FTN gate. Implemented the FileMgr and AreaMgr pause and resume commands. Changed logging when AreaMgr/FileMgr commands did fail. Some checks improved and fixed some potential sigsegv crashes. Reduced aka match level for (dis)connect areas to zone, net. This should fix problems on systems with multiple aka's when the first aka is not the aka in the areas. In mgr result reports, lines with connected areas do now also display the aka to which they are connected. The file forward function now always puts a 8.3 filename in the outgoing ticfile. For most files nothing is changed. AreaMgr and FileMgr netmails are now split into more netmails when the become too large. When a downlink requests an echomail area which is not yet available, and there is a areas file for some uplink, the area is automatic created and a areamgr request is sent to the uplink to connect that area. The area is created with the defaults from the mailgroup. Experimental patch in mkftnhdr to create a To address in news articles where a Reply-To: header is present. It was not possible to disconnect file areas. Added nopper code to full mailscan. Fixed a problem that caused a SIGSEGV when a node was in the ticfiles setup to forward file to and there was no noderecord. When a ticfile was received while our aka is in the path, the bad tic counter wasn't increased. Made error message in AddMsgHdr function more clear. Removed experimental patch in news->ftn gate were wrong To: address was created. The mbfido news functions doesn't abort anymore when a newsgroup didn't exist. For points in echomail no seen-by entry is added. The AreaMgr and FileMgr responses and notify messages now use the diesel macro language. The tic file forward function now uses only filenames in the subject of the netmail messages without the path. The tic file forward netmails now uses template forward.tic When started a second time it doesn't destroy the lockfile anymore. When a converted email to news listserver message is processed that has a header line starting with X-MS-, the headerline is suppressed because there is no key for this header. This looks like a new kind of M$ standard. mbnews crashed on this one. Fixed a small problem in magic filename testing. In rfc2ftn the Approved: header now becomes a kludge instead of being plain passed. Auto file area create implemented, it can use plain tagfiles or filegate.zxx formatted files. The mbfido web command now uses macro templates. Areamgr uplink requests the sender name is now set to the sysop's name, so he/she will get to read the responses. New command: areas. This will read all defined area lists for files and mail groups that have the Auto Change set to Yes. Missing areas are created, areas not present anymore are removed if they are empty. Good for bulk areas create. When missing areas are created, uplink requests are sent to connect the areas. Added more checks to processing of file_id.diz files. Also when it is illegal formatted the already processed lines are cleared to prevent later malformatted descriptions. The hatch and magic processors now scan the filenames to test using the regexp library, this should be more reliable. Increased the size of the buffer for filesort. Improved error reporting when file copy fails. When a virus scanner is started, de mbtask connection timeout is set to one hour. Changed the confusing No Touch setting in tic areas to Touch. When a file to be attached doesn't exist, a error message is logged and the attach is treaded as an error. mbmsg: When creating non-existend message bases, the path is created first if it doesn't exist. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbfile: The mbfile index command now creates the html pages using the macro templates html.main and html.areas. The files.css file is no longer needed. The check function now checks download directory permissions and tries to correct errors. Missing download directories are created mode 0775. Moved check for empty areas to mbfile check function. The mbfile move command now also moves the thumbnails. Better console error reporting when files are copied. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. The html file indexes now have better translation from ANSI to low ascii and html codes. The import function didn't import files starting with the letter 't'. When a virus scanner is started, de mbtask connection timeout is set to one hour. The virus scanner was sometimes not executed in the right directory with the adopt and import functions. mball: Will not crash anymore when it needs more then 10 minutes to create the allfiles and newfiles lists. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbaff: The High-ascii table to translate to lowercase has now the right values to translate the ansi graphics. Now uses the template newfiles and filefind to create the reports. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbdiff: Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. Improved error reporting when copy fails. mbindex: Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbtask: Removed some debug logging. Creates the semafore is_inet when the internet connections is available, and removes it when it is down. Added test for ISDN/modem lines in use. If a line status change lasted 5 seconds or longer, the oubound will be rescanned. Lots of code cleanup. No setup setting anymore for maximum POTS and ISDN lines, this is now automatic. mbtask will now update internal counters how many ISDN and POTS lines are free to use for dialout. For ISDN and POTS calls, mbtask now decides which tty to use, mbcico gets the tty to use as option on the commandline. Keeps track of the number of mailers running. Added default path for arealists. Keeps track of total mailer TCP/IP sessions and will not start new sessions if the limit from the setup is reached. This will hopefully prevent that mbcico will use too much bandwidth on TCP/IP trafic. Splitted no TCP settings in no IBN, no IFC and no ITN. Improved the ping tests, better errorlogging and suppresion of icmp replies that are not for mbtask. Better protected against flood pings. This should fixes the problem that the internet seemed down while it was available. mbcico: Fixed binkp driver to accept incoming unprotected sessions. If a binkp session comes in and there already is a session with that node, mbcico stopts the binkp session with an error. Remove some obsolete code that is handled by mbtask. Added some debug logmessages in ttyio. Added experimental support for binkp GET command frame, under test now, seems to work, although the offset request is not supported. Registers TCP/IP sessions with mbtask. All filetransfer times and cps rates are calculated in mSecs. Splitted no TCP settings in no IBN, no IFC and no ITN. Removed settings for Non-hold mail and Pickup Primary. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. Fixed some small problems with the history data log. Added tty information when it is available. mbout: The status display has now 9 digits for the outbound size. New command, mbout reset , unconditionally resets the nodes "try" counter, ie. make an undiable node try to call again. The status command displays the call attempts. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbsebbs: On some systems the download taglists contained garbage after the short filename causing wrong filenames at the users side. Added support for external message editor written by Redy. Doors are now passed the parameter to display a prompt after the door or return silently. Fixed lharc file return code to LHA. Calling file transfer protocols now uses the execute call instead of system. Improved error logging for file downloads. When a user has no Location filled in, the bbs doesn't crash anymore. The new files scan colored areasnames bar length is corrected. Fixed the problems with the safecracker door. Removed the cheat codes and added a delay for the display of the safe opening. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbnewusr: New users have the default internal fullscreen editor. Removed nonsense error message when stopped on a signal. mbuser: If a new user has registered and not yet used the bbs, mbuser would kill that user because the last login date wasn't set. It will use the registration date instead. mbstat: The timeout for the wait command was wrong due to a wrong upsdown semafore test. Corrected a spelling error. hatch: A new shellscript to hatch files in a tic area. mbuseradd: Added support for vpopmail, vadduser command. mbpasswd: Added support for vpopmail, vpasswd command. Corrected a define for temp variable. mbuser: Added support for vpopmail, vdeluser command. examples: The Makefile now selects the right little or big endian menu files to install. Rebuild the menus and txtfiles for the new external editor. Removed the mbsetup door from the sample sysop menus. Added templates.tar, these are the default english macro files for the diesel library. rundoor.sh Called door.bat instead of doors.bat installinit.sh Modified for SuSE 7.1 and later, the location of the startup script moved from /sbin to /etc. Patch by Joachim Kuwan. Also modified init.SuSE for Yast2 on SuSE 8.0 mbse.stop: Added path /usr/local/bin for FreeBSD. Needs the psmisc package from the ports collection to work. init.Debian Changed user from mbtask to mbse.