Subj : Rise and fall of BBSes
To   : Mweeby
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 09:02 am

  Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
  By: Mweeby to Sam Alexander on Fri Sep 23 2005 04:44 am

 >   Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
 >   By: Sam Alexander to Diamond Dave on Thu Sep 22 2005 11:48 pm
 > 
 >  > Granted this makes a board that looks just like everyone else's board who
 >  > did the same, but still, it's a full BBS.  I think lots of folks go throu
 >  > this but the nostalgia wears off after a few months.  I personally setup 
 >  > BBS with Fidonet and everything around 2001 with Sync on Windows, but the
 >  > system wasn't stable nor was my broadband connection.  The board I have u
 >  > now I plan on spending some time on, so though it won't be oldschool like
 >  > some, it should be around for a while.
 >  >
 >  > Take care,
 >  >
 >  > Sam
 > Yeah well I was hinking of moving my existing bbs to my Linux box but after
 > looking it the docs and all it'll be a while for that.
 > Now that synchronet has an evolving web interface, that might be one way to
 > garner more interest from the point-and-click crowd.
 > I like telnetting into my bbs from my Linux box because the Linux telnet is 
 > traditional telnet, and it's a lot nicer than Hyperterm or what ever.
 > I guess what I'm getting to is that even if you don't have users jumping dow
 > out of the ceiling to get on, you can still run a board for your own fun and
 > enjoyment.
 > Now does any of this make sense... :)

Hi ..

Actually it's not as bad to install on Linux as you might think.  Rob's 
instructions are long, but on step 1 you can run a script that sets up most 
of it for you:

-[start paste]----
1. Get the required installation and source code modules from CVS:

   A. Create the Synchronet BBS directory on your file system:
      # mkdir /sbbs

   B. Change to the Synchronet BBS directory:
      # cd /sbbs

   *> Optional Shortcut:
   *> At this point you can copy the file from this url: 
   *> 
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/install/GNUmakefile
   *> into the Synchronet directory, run "gmake install SYMLINK=1"
   *> and then skip ahead to step 5.
-[end paste]----

From this point read a few pages forward to step 5 and it's just changing 
some of the zip statements and doing what you'd be doing under Windows.  

The only disadvantage to using Linux if you're used to Windows is you don't 
have that fancy GUI screen that shows all the cool stats and stuff, but me 
personally I run sbbs as a service on a headless computer, so I'd never see 
this anyway.  From my BBS I run ;shell to get to command line and view 
/var/log/messages to monitor my stats.  I also start it as a service instead 
of just running /sbbs/exec/sbbs, so there's no logged in session to screw 
with.

Quite honestly I think it's simpler on Linux from my experience :)  With a 
fully installed Linux box one could have Sync up and going with Dovenet and 
some newsgroups in about 30 minutes.

Sam




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