Long time BBS gamer, first time SysOp, needing some mentoring! reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-04 23:56 Hey guys! Like the title says, I am a total rookie at the 'running a BBS' side of things, and I was starting this post as I am trying my fledgling attempt at getting a BBS off the ground on a Raspberry Pi. A handful of my friends remember the fun of Tradewars, Clans and LoRD, and wanted to get a private BBS for us up and running, and I thought I would take a stab at it, but I have run into some problems and I genuinely don't know who (or what?) to ask, since this is such an archaic hobby. So I have a Raspberry Pi up and running, I have downloaded Mystic BBS and I was following along with the Mystic Guy's YouTube channel (I'm also a Linux rookie, so I am learning on the fly). I was able to unzip Mystic on the Pi, but during the install I am getting an error saying "ERROR: Unable to create /mystic/". I am giving is a sudo ./install command, so it \*should\* be running as a super user, but it won't do it no matter how many times I try. I tried to mkdir mystic, thinking making the directory was the problem, but then the mystic error tells me "Directory already exists". I then rmdir mystic and try again, and get told unable to create. As a test, I tried it on Windows and was able to get everything installed, so it seems it's something with the Pi version of Mystic that is preventing me from installing it. Any ideas? Thanks for any help you guys may have for me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rlauzon · 2023-07-05 00:05 Looking at my Pi running Mystic, everything is owned and run by the 'pi' user. I think the problem is that 'pi' doesn't have permission to make a directory off the root directory (since that directory is owned by 'root'). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-05 00:18 Ahh okay. I had tried doing a 'chown' to change ownership but I might have done it incorrectly. I also tried to may the Mystic directory, thinking if it was made maybe it would just extract the files there, but it seems that just give it a different error, lol. Thanks for the insight, I will play more with it tomorrow and focus on the permissions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Otherwise-Willow6904 · 2023-07-05 00:45 If you need games check out BBS.foolsquarter.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-07-05 00:47 It's going to be a lot of learnin, mostly Linux stuff. Mystic itself is easy enough IMO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-05 01:39 Seems that way. I have a friend who does Linux for work who said he can help me through most of what I am trying to figure out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-05 01:39 Awesome! I quick look showed every single door game I was hoping to put on my BBS. Bookmarking that now, thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-07-05 01:50 I'm not big on Mystic in Linux, cause then you have to install a dos emulator too, more stuff to go wrong. If you get it up and working visit http://BBSN.us for a free subdomain, I host my BBS that runs Mystic at blood.bbsn.us:2323 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-05 02:16 Very cool, thanks for the info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fading-Ghost · 2023-07-05 06:50 `sudo mkdir /mystic && sudo ./install` Caveat: I don’t have this software, it just seems the most likely solution ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wrel_ · 2023-07-05 23:13 Just tried that. It seems creating the directory ahead of time just gives me the "/mystic already exists" error because the installer is trying to create it and then install.