Subj : bbS Servers in Docker
To   : paulie420
From : deon
Date : Fri May 26 2023 15:56:43

  Re: bbS Servers in Docker
  By: paulie420 to Deon & Others on Wed May 24 2023 07:15 pm

 > Hey Deon, mL and others!!! I've been playing around with Docker lately.

Hey hey!

 > It seems like a decent platform to run [several] bbSes on one server... both
 > the simple ones [bbsio/synchronet] and even DOS BBS softwares w/ the use of
 > DOSEMU. [jgoerzen/bbs-renegade and others by him]

I like your thinking. Yup, it is a good platform to run anything, and I've 
taken jgoerzen method and extended it to run DOS BBSes. I started on it a while 


















































































ago, to get my Ezycom back online - and I did, but parked it as I got 
distracted with other things. (I built images using dosemu and qemu - serial 
transfers was tricky, but doable...)

The challenge I had, (which may be due to the way I was implementing it), is 
DOS doesnt give up the CPU, so my poor little APU1D was working hard for very 
little use. It was also challenging to get a reliable mailer working (so that 
it had mail) - since zmodem is very fussy if one side is slower than the other. 


















































































(Which resulted in me starting on clearghouz with EMSI/Zmodem support - where I 


















































































could control the Zmodem timeouts.)

I've got a long way to go, and distractions seem to get in the way.

 > Deon - is yer ANSiTex in Docker by chance?

Yes and no.

My latest implementation of ANSItex is a module to synchronet. My thinking was 
to package it as a docker BBS, but I havent got it functional enough (to my 
liking) to package it that way. (It would help it be "interBBS", so that if you 


















































































updated frames, they were available on all deployments...)

So at the moment, Synchronet is a container and its a javascript "mod" that 
currently lives outside the container until I get to be happy with what I've 
created (and its easy to update/debug).

(I use my own synchronet docker container).

That said, if you are interested, I could ammend my CI building to build an 
update as I make updates to the code.

 > Is there any interest in this - and/or, can I ask ?s here along the way if I
 > start to get a hang of things? It seems a lot of folks get something basic
 > running, but don't go the full distance. I'd like to get persistent installs
 > of different softwares - which in the grand scheme doesn't seem all THAT
 > hard - just work getting there.

Yeah, I'm interested in this. I was thinking of doing a similar thing, so happy 


















































































to help out... :)


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