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<h5>Last update 10-Feb-2002</h5>
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<H1>MBSE BBS Setup - Global Setup</H1>
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In this setup you can edit all global settings for MBSE BBS. All sections will
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be discussed below.
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2001-11-08 20:56:30 +00:00
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<h3>1.1. Fidonet Aka's.</h3>
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Here you can enter 40 fidonet addresses. These are 5d addresses.
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<h3>1.2. Edit Registration Info.</H3>
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<strong>System name </strong>The name of your BBS
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<strong>Domain name </strong>Your internet domain name (or a fake name if you have
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no direct connection).
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<strong>Sysop uid </strong>The Unix name of your Sysop account
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<strong>Sysop Fido </strong>The Fidonet name of your Sysop account
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<strong>Location </strong>The Location of your BBS
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<strong>QWK/Bluewave </strong>The packet name for Offline mail downloads.
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<strong>Omed id. </strong>Not in use
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<strong>Comment </strong>A comment line for your BBS
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<strong>Origin line </strong>The default origin line for echomail
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<strong>Startup uid </strong>The default username "bbs"
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<h3>1.3. Edit Global Filenames.</H3>
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<strong>System logfile </strong>The name of the main logfile
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<strong>Error logfile </strong>The name of the errors logfile
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<strong>Default menu </strong>The name of the default main menu
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<strong>Default language </strong>The name of the default language
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<strong>Chat logfile </strong>The name of the logfile for chatting
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<strong>Welcome logo </strong>The name of the BBS logo ANSI file
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<h3>1.4. Edit Global Paths</H3>
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<strong>BBS Menus </strong>The path to the default menus
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<strong>Txtfiles </strong>The path to the default ANSI and ASCII textfiles
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<strong>Home dirs </strong>The path to the users home directories
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<strong>Nodelists </strong>The path to the nodelist directory
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<strong>Inbound </strong>The unprotected fidonet inbound
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<strong>Prot inb. </strong>The (password) protected fidonet inbound
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<strong>Outbound </strong>The outbound for the main aka
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<strong>*.msgs </strong>A netmail directory from where *.msg mails are tossed
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These are *.msg files can be created by several doors. (Not in use yet)
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<strong>Bad TIC's </strong>Where bad TIC files are saved
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<strong>TIC queue </strong>Where TIC files for downlinks are kept
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<strong>Magic's </strong>Where the magic filerequests are kept
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<strong>DOS path </strong>The DOS drive and path
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<strong>Unix path </strong>The Translated DOS path in real
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<strong>LeaveCase </strong>Leave outbound .flo filenames as is, No forces to uppercase
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<strong>FTP base </strong>The FTP base path, ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/pub
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<strong>Arealists </strong>The path where area lists and filebone lists are stored
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If you fill in the DOS path then the DOS path and Unix path are translated
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to DOS paths in the flo files for outbound mail sessions. You only need this if
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another mailer uses the outbound that doesn't understand Unix paths.
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The DOS path is a fake, but it must match the other mailer.
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Note that the TIC queue must be somewere in the Unix path, otherwise it is
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impossible to create a DOS path from the path to the TIC files in that
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directory. To set this up correctly is also important if you use other mailers
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as well, for example binkd, or even a DOS binkly-style mailer running from
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a network. All those mailer must "see" the same file attaches in the .flo
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files.
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<h3>1.5. Edit BBS Configuration</H3>
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<strong>Private system </strong>Set to true when only pre-registered users are allowed
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<strong>Exclude Sysop </strong>True is Sysop will be invisible
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<strong>Show connect </strong>Show connection info at logon
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<strong>Ask protocols </strong>Ask protocol before each up/download
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<strong>Sysop level </strong>The Sysop security level
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<strong>Password Length </strong>The minimum password length, should be 6.
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<strong>Password Char. </strong>The password hiding character
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<strong>Idle timeout </strong>The idle timeout in minutes
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<strong>Login Enters </strong>Maximum times for only enter <Enter>
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<strong>Login Attempts </strong>Maximum login attempts
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<strong>Homedir Quota </strong>Maximum size in MBytes for each user
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<strong>Location length </strong>The minimum length of the location (3 in Holland!)
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<strong>Show new msgarea </strong>Show new available message areas at logon (for OLR users)
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<strong>OLR Max. msgs. </strong>Maximum messages to download, 0 is no limit.
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<strong>OLR Newfile days </strong>The maximum age for newfiles in the OLR packet
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<strong>OLR Max Filereq </strong>Maximum filerequests allowed for OLR users
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<strong>BBS Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not the BBS program
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<strong>Utils Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not for utilities
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<strong>Utils slowly </strong>Should utilities release <A HREF="../misc/usleep.html">timeslices</A>
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<strong>CrashMail level </strong>Minimum level to allow sending netmail crash
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<strong>FileAttach level </strong>Minimum level to allow attach files to netmail
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<strong>Min diskspace MB </strong>At which low diskspace level utilities should stop working.
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The minimum diskspace setting is to prevent that files get corrupted if your filesystem
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is full. All drives are checked except CD-roms and floppies and the /boot directory if that
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one is on a separate filesystem. Ext2, reiserfs, msdos and vfat partitions
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are checked. The lowest free diskspace found counts. Default is 10 MB.
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<h3>1.6. Flag Descriptions.</h3>
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In this menu you can give the 32 users flags a meaningfull description.
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<h3>1.7. New users defaults.</h3>
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<strong>Access level </strong>The access level and flags after registration
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<strong>Cap. Username </strong>Capitalize the username
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<strong>Ask ANSI </strong>Ask for ANSI screen (default is yes)
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<strong>Ask Sex </strong>Ask for Male/Female
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<strong>Ask Voicephone </strong>Ask for voice phonenumber
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<strong>Ask Dataphone </strong>Ask for data phonenumber
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<strong>Telephone scan </strong>Scan for duplicate numbers
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<strong>Ask Handle </strong>Ask for handle (nickname)
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<strong>Ask Birth date </strong>Ask for birthdate (needed for checks)
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<strong>Ask Location </strong>Ask for users location
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<strong>Ask Hot-Keys </strong>Ask for hot-keyed menus (default is yes)
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<strong>One word names </strong>Allow one word names
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<strong>Ask address </strong>Not implemented
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<strong>Give email </strong>Give new users email access (default is yes)
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<h3>1.8. Text Colors.</h3>
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Several prompts use different colors. They can be changed with the following
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menu.
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<IMG SRC="../images/mbsetup1.6.gif" width="589" height="343">
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<IMG SRC="../images/mbsetup1.6.S.gif" width="589" height="343">
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<h3>1.9. Next User Door.</h3>
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This is a "message to nextuser" door I found in RapidBBS. It allows a user
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to write a message to the next BBS user.
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<strong>Text file </strong>The textfile to display
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<strong>Quote </strong>The prompt to show
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<h3>1.10. Safe cracker door.</h3>
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This is a door I found in RapidBBS, it is a simple number guessing game.
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<strong>Digit 1 </strong>The first digit to guess
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<strong>Digit 2 </strong>The second digit to guess
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<strong>Digit 3 </strong>The third digit to guess
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<strong>Max trys </strong>The maximum number of trys per day
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<strong>Max numb </strong>The highest number to guess
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<strong>Num gen </strong>Automatic number generation
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<strong>Prize </strong>The prize to win
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<strong>Welcome </strong>The welcome file to display
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<strong>Opened </strong>The file to display to the winner
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<h3>1.11. Time Bank Door.</h3>
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This is the timebank door I found in RapidBBS. It allows a user to deposit
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time or download kilobytes on his bank account so when he needs it for
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big downloads he can use his savings for extra large downloads. Anyway,
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I haven't figured this one out completly for myself, so the meaning of all
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these settings are not well explained right now.
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<strong>Time balance </strong>Maximum time balance
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<strong>Max time withdraw </strong>Maximum time to withdraw
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<strong>Max time deposit </strong>Maximum time to deposit
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<strong>Kb. balance </strong>Maximum Kilobytes balance
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<strong>Max Kb. withdraw </strong>Maximum Kilobytes to withdraw
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<strong>Max Kb. deposit </strong>Maximum Kilobytes to deposit
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<strong>Users time ratio </strong>Time ratio
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<strong>Users Kb. ratio </strong>Kilobytes ratio
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<h3>1.12. Sysop paging</h3>
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For sysop chat we use a program that will connect to the users tty. This is
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not a nice solution because it will not work over a network, but at least
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it works.
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<strong>Ext. chat </strong>External chat program, not in use!
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<strong>Chat device </strong>The device where the sysop is called (beeped)
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<strong>Call script </strong>For future use
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<strong>Page length </strong>The length of a page in seconds
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<strong>Page times </strong>Maximum number of times a user may page the sysop
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<strong>Sysop area </strong>Message from user to Sysop area number
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<strong>Ask reason </strong>Ask reason for chat, this will be logged
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<strong>Use Extern </strong>Use external chat
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<strong>Log Chat </strong>Log the chat conversation
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<strong>Prompt Chk. </strong>Check at menu prompts for Sysop breaking in
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<strong>Freeze Time </strong>Freeze users time during chat
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<strong>Sunday..Saturday </strong>The times the Sysop is normal available
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<h3>1.13. Fileecho Processing.</h3>
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A note, when you change the number of Systems or Groups, the databases affected
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will be updated automatic.
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<strong>Keep days </strong>How long TIC files should be kept on hold
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<strong>Hatch pwd </strong>The internal hatch password. Make this weird.
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<strong>Drv space </strong>The minimal free space on your disk in kilobytes
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<strong>Systems </strong>The maximum number of connected nodes
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<strong>Groups </strong>The maximum number of fileecho groups
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<strong>Max. dupes </strong>The maximum number of entries in dupe database
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<strong>Keep date </strong>Keep original filedate
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<strong>Keep netm </strong>Keep sent netmails
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<strong>Res future </strong>Reset dates in the future
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<strong>Loc resp </strong>Respond to local created filefind messages
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<strong>Repl ext </strong>Replace filename extension with .* before filesearch
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<strong>Plus all </strong>Allow filemgr +all command
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<strong>Notify </strong>Allow filemgr notify=on/off command
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<strong>Passwd </strong>Allow filemgr passwd command
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<strong>Message </strong>Allow filemgr message=on/off command
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<strong>Tic on/off </strong>Allow filemgr tic=on/off command
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<strong>Pause </strong>Allow filemgr pause/resume commands
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<h3>1.14. Edit Fidonet mail and echomail processing.</h3>
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Note that the first 2 mailboards must also exist in the normal mail areas if
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you want to see what is in them. Here they are defined for quick access of the
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tosser. For the Max. systems and groups see 1.12. If you use MBSE BBS together
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with a DOS based BBS (using DOSEMU or mars netware emulator), you can set the
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behaviour of the outbound to 4d. addressing instead of 5d. This option may
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dissapear in the future.<br>
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Another option is present, this is the <strong>pktdate</strong> option. This
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is the full path and filename to an external program that can inspect and
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correct the mail .pkt files. Originally I put this in to run pktname of Tobias
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Ernst of 2:2476/418 to fix y2k problems in the incoming mail. At this time
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most y2k fixes are build in, but in case you need it it's there. To make it
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clear; the y2ktools written by Tobias are static compiled for Linux and they
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should run on all Linux i386 versions. Until now, I still use pktdate because
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it is necessary.<br>
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<strong>Badboard </strong>The path and filename of the bad messages
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<strong>Dupeboard </strong>The path and filename of the duplicate messages
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<strong>Pktdate </strong>Full path and filename of a .pkt preprocessor
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<strong>Max pkts. </strong>Maximum Kb. of mail packets before a new one is created.
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<strong>Keep days </strong>How many day should we keep ARCmail on hold
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<strong>Echo dupes </strong>Maximum number of entries in the echomail dupe database
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<strong>Max msgs </strong>Default maximum number of messages in each area
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<strong>Days old </strong>Default number of days old to keep messages
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<strong>Max systems </strong>Maximum number of nodes to connect to echomail
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<strong>Max groups </strong>Maximum number of echomail groups
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A note about the splitting of messages. Some tossers can't handle
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messages greater than 16 KBytes, these tossers are rare these days. Most
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tossers can handle messages of 32 KBytes. To set these values on the safe
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side set "Split at" to 27 and "Force at" to 31. This means that a long
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newfile report will be split after 27 KBytes when a new group of files
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should start in the report. If it can't find that point because a large
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number of files is in the group that is just being processed, the message
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split will be forced right after the file that passes the 31 KBytes limit.
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I use values of 1 KBytes below maximum for overhead such as SEEN-BY and
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PATH lines. Values larger then 32 KBytes is not a good idea, recent tests
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in May 1999 have shown that your messages will not reach all systems
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if they are larger then 32 KBytes. Splitting is used for newfiles reports
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and gated news articles to Fidonet.
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<h3>1.15. Edit Internet mail and news processing.</h3>
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<p>
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Email and news is setup here. There are three possible configurations which you
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can set with 1.15.11:
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<li><strong>No ISP</strong>. If you don't have any connection to the internet
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use this setting. Email will come from the default Fidonet UUCP gate and will be send out
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via the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@f2802.m280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Note, the username is their
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Unix name when sending email.
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<li><strong>Dial ISP</strong>. If you dial the internet regulary or are connected
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with a cable modem without a valid DNS (Nameserver) entry you should use
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this mode. Email will be sent via your local SMTP port, then through your
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own sendmail (or whatever you use) to your ISP.
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As soon as you are connected to the internet
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the mail will be sent to your ISP's mailer. In your sendmail you should
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define the mailer of your ISP as Smarthost. Incoming email will still come
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from the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@f2802.m280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Note, the username is their
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Unix name. If you have your own maildomain, don't use this option, use the
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next option:
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<li><strong>Perm ISP</strong>. If you are permanent connected to the internet
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either with a static or dynamic IP address use this option. Use this option
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also if you have an UUCP domain and have a dialup UUCP connection. Also
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you can use this for dialup if you have your own maildomain without UUCP,
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you will then fetch the mail from a multidrop mailbox (POP or IMAP) and
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send the mail using SMTP via the SMTP mailer of your provider.<br>
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If you have a dynamic IP address you can still get a DNS name from for
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example <A HREF="http://www.dynip.com">dynip.com</A>
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Incoming email will come directly from the internet, but if someone sends
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email via the UUCP gate it is also accepted. Users have email addresses like
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<strong>user@yourbbs.domain.org</strong>. Note, the username is their
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Unix name.
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Note: the terms <b>Dial ISP</b> and <b>Perm ISP</b> are not correct, it doesn't
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matter how you are connected, it only matters if you have a maildomain or not.
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Another word of wisdom from my side, configuration of the internet, ppp, sendmail etc. is not discussed
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here, see the HOWTO's and other documentation that exists at <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">
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www.linuxdoc.org</A>, it's all there.
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<strong>POP3 node </strong>The POP3 node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>SMTP node </strong>The SMTP node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>NNTP node </strong>The NNTP node to use, should be localhost
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<strong>NNTP m.r. </strong>If the NNTP server needs the Mode Reader command
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<strong>NNTP user </strong>The username for the NNTP server if needed
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<strong>NNTP pass </strong>The password for the NNTP server if needed
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<strong>News dupes </strong>The number of entries for the news dupes database.
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<strong>Email aka </strong>The Fidonet aka to use for the fidonet.org UUCP gate
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<strong>UUCP aka </strong>The default Fidonet UUCP gate, 2:292/875@fidonet
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<strong>Emailmode </strong>The email mode, discussed above
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<strong>News mode </strong>Newsfeed mode, INN, rnews or UUCP.
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<strong>Articles </strong>The default maximum newsarticles to fetch per group.
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<strong>Split at </strong>Gently split newfiles reports after n KBytes (12..60)
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<strong>Force at </strong>Force split of newfiles reports after n KBytes (16..63)
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<strong>Control ok </strong>Allow news control messages to be gated
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<strong>No regate </strong>Don't regate already gated messages
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In rnews mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
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<strong>Path rnews </strong>The full path and filename to the rnews binary.
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In UUCP mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
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<strong>UUCP path </strong>The full path to the uucppublic directory.
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<strong>UUCP node </strong>The UUCP nodename of your ISP.
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</pre><p>
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<P>
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<h3>1.16. Allfiles and Newfiles lists.</h3>
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<p>
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These are the settings that affect the generation of newfiles and allfiles reports.
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<pre>
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<strong>New days </strong>The number of days old files are "newfiles"
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<strong>Security </strong>The highest security level to include files in the reports
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<strong>Groups </strong>The number of newfile groups the newfiles database can hold
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</pre><p>
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<h3>1.17. Mailer Setup.</h3>
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<p>
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Note that you can't disable FTS-0001 sessions as that is a mandatory session
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protocol in Fidonet. There are 40 phonenumber translations present, this is for
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countries with lots of telephone operators with all kind of prefixes for
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carrier select functions.
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<pre>
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<strong>Mailer logl. </strong>The logging level for mailer sessions
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<strong>Default phone </strong>The default phonenumber for EMSI sessions
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<strong>TCP/IP flags </strong>The TCP/IP capability flags for TCP/IP sessions
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<strong>Default speed </strong>The default speed for EMSI sessions
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<strong>Timeout reset </strong>The timout for normal modem commands
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<strong>Timeout connect </strong>The timeout for waiting for connect
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<strong>Dial delay </strong>The maximum delay between calls, minimum is 10 seconds.
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<strong>No Filerquests </strong>Disable filerequests
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<strong>No callout </strong>Disable callout
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<strong>No hold mail </strong>Send "hold" mail if we make the call
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<strong>No pickup all </strong>Exchange mail for one aka only
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<strong>No EMSI session </strong>Disable EMSI
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<strong>No YooHoo/2U2 </strong>Disable FTS-0006 sessions
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<strong>No Zmodem </strong>Disable zmodem protocol
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<strong>No Zedzap </strong>Disable zedzap protocol
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<strong>No Hydra </strong>Disable Hydra protocol
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<strong>No TCP/IP </strong>Disable TCP/IP protocol, set to Yes if you don't have internet.
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<strong>Phonetrans 1..40 </strong>Maximum 40 phone number translations
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<strong>Max. files </strong>Maximum files to request, 0 is unlimited
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<strong>Max. MBytes </strong>Maximum MBytes to request, 0 is unlimited
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</pre>
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<h3>1.18. FTPD Settings.</h3>
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<p>
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A new program is <strong>mbftpd</strong>. This is a replacement for the normal
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ftp server for Linux with special futures for MBSE BBS. This is not working
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yet and is not included in the distribution. Setting it up is adviced.
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<pre>
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<strong>Upload pth </strong>Incoming files (ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/incoming).
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<strong>Banner msg </strong>The banner file to display before login.
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<strong>Path filter </strong>The legal character in upload filenames.
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<strong>Path msg </strong>Message to display if illegal characters in upload.
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<strong>Email addr </strong>Your email address.
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<strong>Shutdown </strong>Shutdown message if FTP server is closed.
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<strong>Readme login </strong>Readme to display after login.
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<strong>Readme cwd* </strong>Readme to display after chdir.
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<strong>Msg login </strong>Welcome message after login.
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<strong>Msg cwd* </strong>Message to display in directory.
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<strong>Userslimit </strong>Maximum FTP users allowed.
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<strong>Loginfails </strong>Maximum login failures.
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<strong>Compress </strong>If compress command is allowed.
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<strong>Tar </strong>If tar command is allowed.
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<strong>Mkdir ok </strong>If users may create directories.
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<strong>Log commands </strong>Log user commands.
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<strong>Anonymous </strong>If anonymous login is allowed.
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<strong>User mbse </strong>If user <strong>mbse</strong> is allowed. Dangerous!
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</pre>
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<h3>1.19. Edit HTML pages setup.</h3>
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<p>
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Here you setup the HTML pages that can be created with the <strong>
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mbfile web</strong> command. These are HTML pages of your download
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areas and indexes of all areas. If there are pictures in these areas
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thumbnails are created if you have the <strong>convert</strong>
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command available. The document root is the same as defined in your
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web server. The link to ftp must be created from that directory to
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your ftp base directory. To do that become root, cd to the document root
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and type <strong>ln -s /var/spool/mbse/ftp files</strong> In this case the link
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is called <strong>files</strong>. Note that all download areas are accesible,
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there is no user authentication yet available.
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<pre>
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<strong>Docs root </strong>The path to the httpd documents root.
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<strong>Link to ftp </strong>The link to the ftp directory.
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<strong>URL name </strong>The URL of your webserver.
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<strong>Charset </strong>The default character set, ISO-8859-1.
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<strong>Table color </strong>The tables background color.
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<strong>Header color </strong>The tables header background color.
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<strong>Author name </strong>The author name you want in the HTTP headers.
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<strong>Convert command </strong>The graphics convert command. (ImageMagick needed).
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<strong>Files/page </strong>The number of files to display per web page.
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<strong>Icon Home </strong>The name of the Home icon file.
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<strong>Text Home </strong>The text to display for Home.
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<strong>Icon Back </strong>The name of the Back icon file.
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<strong>Text Back </strong>The text to display for Back.
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<strong>Icon Prev. </strong>The name of the Previous page icon file.
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<strong>Text Prev. </strong>The text to display for Previous page.
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<strong>Icon Next </strong>The name of the Next page icon file.
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<strong>Text Next </strong>The text to display for Next page.
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</pre>
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<P>
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2002-01-07 22:11:33 +00:00
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