Need help tying Mystic BBS together
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blakespot · 2015-11-02 01:26

Any sysops out there that can help me tie the BBS system to my Linux
telnet port?

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grassmunk · 2015-11-02 19:05

What platform are you running this on? You might have more help asking
people that are currently running mystic BBS.

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blakespot · 2015-11-02 19:08

That's who I'm reaching out to, here. Running it on CentOS (Linux).
Need to figure out how to tie incoming telnet requests to the Mystic
server.

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grassmunk · 2015-11-02 19:17

Looking at the setup it seems it would run on port 23 already? If that
works than is this a firewall issue?

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blakespot · 2015-11-02 19:28

Well, right now if you telnet to the box, you are greeted by the
telnet prompt to login. I need that to head to the mystic server,
rather than login services. Not sure how to make that connection.

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nolageek · 2015-11-03 22:24

Are you sure mystic is running?

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blakespot · 2015-11-03 23:37

Yes, I tried running ./mis and also ./mis -d (daemon mode). It's
configured to use port 23. Should this be enough if the firewall is
open for things to work?

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RazorKitten · 2015-11-08 02:40

Best Bet... Uninstall telnetd, run Mystic on a port above 1024 and use
iptables to redirect port 23 to that port.

'Maybe' something like:

iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 23 -j REDIRECT
--to-port 2300

Otherwise you have to run it as root, and that will probably lead to
you having a bad day...

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blakespot · 2015-11-08 23:00

I have started creating .asc equivalents for .ans files so that retro
computers without ANSI can get on and see things clearly. Found the
initial logo area quickly (preuser.ans), but I can't find the second
file I want to modify -- the one that is used on the One Liners page.
I just don't see it in /text. Any help? Is there a map somewhere of
what goes to where? Frustrating.

Thanks.

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denzuko · 2016-04-27 23:03

download the myst111l.rar, unrar the file then chmod +x ./install and
more ./unix.install.txt

unix.install.txt will have a init.d script which you'll need to
install but after that one can just do service mysticbbs start and
mystic will automatically listen on port 23.

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denzuko · 2016-04-27 23:06

best ensure you do not have telnetd ir inetd running when using mystic
bbs as mystic comes prebuilt with its own telnet daemon (the mis
binary)

Now, if your seeing the login screen for mystic (prelogin menu) but
unable to login then use mystic -cfg and enable new user login and
also add your sysop user (security group 255) under the editors >
users editors.

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denzuko · 2016-04-27 23:08

most users would still need to run as root since running sudo
./install makes the mystic bbs directory root owned. True, this can be
changed by creating the directory prior (plus not using /mystic but
something more filesystem.org logical) and chown all the files
installed to a service account. but again this is "most users" kind of
thing.