Subj : Don't want to screw up!
To   : Digital Man
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sat Jan 01 2005 11:04 pm

DM, I'm building a brand new SBBS from sbbs_src.tgz following the 
instructions in sbbsunix.txt and I've reached step #5 (Configure the BBS)
which I have not started as yet.

Now, I don't want to lose all the messages in *this* instance of SBBS so I 
want to copy the message bases on to the new instance of SBBS -- which 
leads me to touch base to check on a few things:

1) I don't want to flood the network with a couple hundred thousand dups!  
   So when I copy the .sda/.sdt/.sha/.shd/.sid out of the old data/subs
   to the new data/subs, I want to copy data/qnet/VERT.ptr as well, right?
   Do I have to do anything else to prevent a dup-flood?  (I plan to 
   look out for a large outbound packet and stop it in it's tracks if I 
   find one, but!)

2) By just copying the old files, do I fail to enjoy any new functionality 
   that I maybe want to?  I know there are new indexing and dup-checking
   enhancements...  I'd like to use all the neato new features, but I've
   got a LOT of messages stored here and wouldn't like them to be lost.

3) I plan to just go into SCFG->Msg Areas->DOVE-Net->Export Areas and dump 
   out an SUBS.TXT file from the old instance then import it into the 
   new instance.  Do you see any reason not to take this short-cut to 
   configuring my subs?

By the way, a couple quirks discovered so far.  In particular, after 
downloading and un-tarring the sbbs_src.tgz I skipped ahead to step G. as
instructed, but I had to come back to steps E. and F. because sbbs_src.tgz 
contained only the *freebsd* versions in lib/mozilla/{js|nspr}.  
Confirm this with tar tzvf sbbs_src.tgz lib/mozilla on your end if you 
like.  NBD, but you may consider updating sbbsunix.txt or maybe build 
several versions of sbbs_src.tgz (perhaps maybe sbbs_src.linux.tgz, 
sbbs_src.freebsd.tgz, etc?).

(Every now and again I get switched into super-inquisitive mode, and you 
get a few days of intensely stupid questions on verious items of trivia 
and general minutia.  Well...  I feel it coming on.)



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