Subj : Fixing Page SysOp in Mystic Linux
To   : Rich Lawrence
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Jan 03 2017 02:03 pm

Hello Rich,

On Tue Jan 03 2017 12:37:00, Rich Lawrence wrote to All:

 RL> So if anyone who runs Mystic on Linux knows, the Page SysOp option on
 RL> the main menu is broken. Choosing it doesn't do anything. While a few
 RL> folks have done what I have done, I assume, I wanted to just lay out
 RL> what steps I took for future SysOps or people trying it out, to know
 RL> how you can get this feature working. So I wrote up a blog post for my
 RL> BBS blog and wanted to share it here...

 RL> http://wp.me/p4378W-1L

 RL> TL;DR: I installed mpg123 and used the that to play an mp3 of a Star
 RL> Trek SFX that I made a 30 second loop of, while having Mystic show a
 RL> box to the user letting them know the Sysop has been paged.

Since most distributions don't have an all encompassed "default sound" it was 
never fully filled out with anything - leaving it to the user to choose how 
they wanted to do it. However the way you did it is definitely the way I would 
go as well. :)

Regards,
Nick

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