From f4a32ca7acbda4f4cdcb02113bec7f1cc72d9c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michiel Broek Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:54:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated documentation --- html/basic.html.in | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/html/basic.html.in b/html/basic.html.in index e68e8e76..e92bb02a 100644 --- a/html/basic.html.in +++ b/html/basic.html.in @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
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MBSE BBS Basic Installation

Introduction.

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Step 2: Running the installation script.

First, if you use FreeBSD, install the psmisc package. This will make sure -that MBSE BBS is stopped properly if you shutdown your computer.
+that MBSE BBS is stopped properly if you shutdown your computer. Also if you +use FreeBSD 5.0 or later make sure that you mount procfs, see man procfs +for details. If you don't mount procfs, you cannot add new users to the bbs and +existing bbs users cannot change their passwords. As sysop, you can't change +passwords too.
If you are upgrading, proceed with step 4. If not, follow the next steps very carefully!
The installation script must be run by root. It checks if there is a @@ -203,7 +207,8 @@ for your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate echoma to the internet.

To support Chinese the DELete key needs to be changed because it conflicts with one -of the characters. If you want to use Chinese, use --enable-gbkdel to configure. +of the characters. If you want to use Chinese, use --enable-gbkdel +to configure.

The last part of the installation procedure shows you the location of the bbs startup script that is added to your system. Remember this one for a moment.