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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 12-Jul-2003</h5></div>
<div align="center"><H1>MBSE BBS Setup - Global Setup</H1></div>
<P>
In this setup you can edit all global settings for MBSE BBS. All sections will
be discussed below.
<P>
<h3>1.1. Fidonet Aka's.</h3>
<p>
Here you can enter 40 fidonet addresses. These are 5d addresses. Make sure you
group the different zone's together, strange things will happen if you don't
group them.
<p>
<h3>1.2. Edit Registration Info.</H3>
<P>
<pre>
<strong>System name </strong>The name of your BBS
<strong>Domain name </strong>Your internet mail domain name (or system host.domain.com
if you don't have a maildomain).
<strong>Sysop uid </strong>The Unix name of your Sysop account
<strong>Sysop Fido </strong>The Fidonet name of your Sysop account
<strong>Location </strong>The Location of your BBS
<strong>QWK/Bluewave </strong>The packet name for Offline mail downloads.
<strong>Omed id. </strong>Not in use
<strong>Comment </strong>A comment line for your BBS
<strong>Origin line </strong>The default origin line for echomail
<strong>Startup uid </strong>The default username &quot;bbs&quot;
</pre>
<P>
<h3>1.3. Edit Global Filenames.</H3>
<P>
<pre>
<strong>System logfile </strong>The name of the main logfile
<strong>Error logfile </strong>The name of the errors logfile
<strong>Mgr logfile </strong>The name of the area-/filemgr logfile
<strong>Default menu </strong>The name of the default main menu
<strong>Default language </strong>The name of the default language
<strong>Chat logfile </strong>The name of the logfile for chatting
<strong>Welcome logo </strong>The name of the BBS logo ANSI file
</pre>
<P>
<h3>1.4. Edit Global Paths</H3>
<P>
<pre>
<strong>BBS Menus </strong>The path to the default menus
<strong>Txtfiles </strong>The path to the default ANSI and ASCII textfiles
<strong>Home dirs </strong>The path to the users home directories
<strong>Nodelists </strong>The path to the nodelist directory
<strong>Inbound </strong>The unprotected fidonet inbound
<strong>Prot inb. </strong>The (password) protected fidonet inbound
<strong>Outbound </strong>The outbound for the main aka
<strong>Out queue </strong>The outbound queue for temporary files
<strong>*.msgs </strong>A netmail directory from where *.msg mails are tossed
These are *.msg files can be created by several doors. (Not in use yet)
<strong>Bad TIC's </strong>Where bad TIC files are saved
<strong>TIC queue </strong>Where TIC files for downlinks are kept
<strong>Magic's </strong>Where the magic filerequests are kept
<strong>DOS path </strong>The DOS drive and path
<strong>Unix path </strong>The Translated DOS path in real
<strong>LeaveCase </strong>Leave outbound .flo filenames as is, No forces to uppercase
<strong>FTP base </strong>The FTP base path, ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/pub
<strong>Arealists </strong>The path where area lists and filebone lists are stored
<strong>Ext. edit </strong>The full path and filename to the external editor.
</pre>
If you fill in the DOS path then the DOS path and Unix path are translated
to DOS paths in the flo files for outbound mail sessions. You only need this if
another mailer uses the outbound that doesn't understand Unix paths.
The DOS path is a fake, but it must match the other mailer.
Note that the TIC queue must be somewere in the Unix path, otherwise it is
impossible to create a DOS path from the path to the TIC files in that
directory. To set this up correctly is also important if you use other mailers
as well, for example binkd, or even a DOS binkly-style mailer running from
a network. All those mailer must "see" the same file attaches in the .flo
files.
<P>
<h3>1.5. Edit BBS Configuration</H3>
<p>
<pre>
<strong>Private system </strong>Set to true when only pre-registered users are allowed
<strong>Exclude Sysop </strong>True is Sysop will be invisible
<strong>Show connect </strong>Show connection info at logon
<strong>Ask protocols </strong>Ask protocol before each up/download
<strong>Sysop level </strong>The Sysop security level
<strong>Password Length </strong>The minimum password length, should be 6.
<strong>Password Char. </strong>The password hiding character
<strong>Idle timeout </strong>The idle timeout in minutes
<strong>Login Enters </strong>Maximum times for only enter <Enter>
<strong>Login Attempts </strong>Maximum login attempts
<strong>Homedir Quota </strong>Maximum size in MBytes for each user
<strong>Location length </strong>The minimum length of the location (3 in Holland!)
<strong>Show new msgarea </strong>Show new available message areas at logon (for OLR users)
<strong>OLR Max. msgs. </strong>Maximum messages to download, 0 is no limit.
<strong>OLR Newfile days </strong>The maximum age for newfiles in the OLR packet
<strong>OLR Max Filereq </strong>Maximum filerequests allowed for OLR users
<strong>BBS Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not the BBS program
<strong>Utils Log Level </strong>What will be logged or not for utilities
<strong>Utils slowly </strong>Should utilities release <A HREF="../misc/usleep.html">timeslices</A>
<strong>CrashMail level </strong>Minimum level to allow sending netmail crash
<strong>FileAttach level </strong>Minimum level to allow attach files to netmail
<strong>Min diskspace MB </strong>At which low diskspace level utilities should stop working.
</pre>
The minimum diskspace setting is to prevent that files get corrupted if your filesystem
is full. All drives are checked except CD-roms and floppies and the /boot directory if that
one is on a separate filesystem. Ext2, reiserfs, msdos and vfat partitions
are checked. The lowest free diskspace found counts. Default is 10 MB.
<p>
<h3>1.6. User flag Descriptions.</h3>
<p>
In this menu you can give the 32 users flags a meaningfull description.
<p>
<h3>1.7. New users defaults.</h3>
<p>
<pre>
<strong>Access level </strong>The access level and flags after registration
<strong>Cap. Username </strong>Capitalize the username
<strong>Ask ANSI </strong>Ask for ANSI screen (default is yes)
<strong>Ask Sex </strong>Ask for Male/Female
<strong>Ask Voicephone </strong>Ask for voice phonenumber
<strong>Ask Dataphone </strong>Ask for data phonenumber
<strong>Telephone scan </strong>Scan for duplicate numbers
<strong>Ask Handle </strong>Ask for handle (nickname)
<strong>Ask Birth date </strong>Ask for birthdate (needed for checks)
<strong>Ask Location </strong>Ask for users location
<strong>Ask Hot-Keys </strong>Ask for hot-keyed menus (default is yes)
<strong>One word names </strong>Allow one word names
<strong>Ask address </strong>Not implemented
<strong>Give email </strong>Give new users email access (default is yes)
</pre>
<p>
<h3>1.8. Text Colors.</h3>
<p>
Several prompts use different colors. They can be changed with the following
menu.
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<h3>1.9. Sysop paging</h3>
<p>
For sysop chat a protocol is used to communicate with the mbtask daemon which
has a very simple IRC like chatserver. For sysop/user chat a forced channel
with the name #sysop is used.
<pre>
<strong>Page length </strong>The length of a page in seconds
<strong>Page times </strong>Maximum number of times a user may page the sysop
<strong>Sysop area </strong>Message from user to Sysop area number
<strong>Ask reason </strong>Ask reason for chat, this will be logged
<strong>Log Chat </strong>Log the chat conversation
<strong>Prompt Chk. </strong>Check at menu prompts for Sysop breaking in
<strong>Freeze Time </strong>Freeze users time during chat
</pre><p>
<h3>1.10. Fileecho Processing.</h3>
<p>
A note, when you change the number of Systems or Groups, the databases affected
will be updated automatic.
<pre>
<strong>Keep days </strong>How long TIC files should be kept on hold
<strong>Hatch pwd </strong>The internal hatch password. Make this weird.
<strong>Drv space </strong>The minimal free space on your disk in kilobytes
<strong>Systems </strong>The maximum number of connected nodes
<strong>Groups </strong>The maximum number of fileecho groups
<strong>Max. dupes </strong>The maximum number of entries in dupe database
<strong>Keep date </strong>Keep original filedate
<strong>Keep netm </strong>Keep sent netmails
<strong>Loc resp </strong>Respond to local created filefind messages
<strong>Plus all </strong>Allow filemgr +all command
<strong>Notify </strong>Allow filemgr notify=on/off command
<strong>Passwd </strong>Allow filemgr/areamgr passwd command
<strong>Message </strong>Allow filemgr message=on/off command
<strong>Tic on/off </strong>Allow filemgr tic=on/off command
<strong>Pause </strong>Allow filemgr pause/resume commands
</pre><p>
When you change one of the <b>Allow filemgr</b> settings, you also need to edit
the file /opt/mbse/english/macro/filemgr.help to reflect the new settings.
Default all these switches are set to Yes.
<p>
<h3>1.11. Edit Fidonet mail and echomail processing.</h3>
<p>
Note that the first 2 mailboards must also exist in the normal mail areas if
you want to see what is in them. Here they are defined for quick access of the
tosser. For the Max. systems and groups see 1.12. If you use MBSE BBS together
with a DOS based BBS (using DOSEMU or mars netware emulator), you can set the
behaviour of the outbound to 4d. addressing instead of 5d. This option may
dissapear in the future.<br>
Another option is present, this is the <strong>pktdate</strong> option. This
is the full path and filename to an external program that can inspect and
correct the mail .pkt files. Originally I put this in to run pktname of Tobias
Ernst of 2:2476/418 to fix y2k problems in the incoming mail. At this time
most y2k fixes are build in, but in case you need it it's there. To make it
clear; the y2ktools written by Tobias are static compiled for Linux and they
should run on all Linux i386 versions. Until now, I still use pktdate because
it is necessary.<br>
<pre>
<strong>Badboard </strong>The path and filename of the bad messages
<strong>Dupeboard </strong>The path and filename of the duplicate messages
<strong>Pktdate </strong>Full path and filename of a .pkt preprocessor
<strong>Max pkts. </strong>Maximum Kb. of mail packets before a new one is created.
<strong>Max arcs. </strong>Maximum size in Kilobytes of an arcmail file
<strong>Keep days </strong>How many day should we keep ARCmail on hold
<strong>Echo dupes </strong>Maximum number of entries in the echomail dupe database
<strong>Reject old </strong>Reject echomail messages older then n days
<strong>Max msgs </strong>Default maximum number of messages in each area
<strong>Days old </strong>Default number of days old to keep messages
<strong>Max systems </strong>Maximum number of nodes to connect to echomail
<strong>Max groups </strong>Maximum number of echomail groups
<strong>4d address </strong>Use 4d. addressing (not needed you only use MBSE BBS)
<strong>Split at </strong>Gently split messages after n KBytes (12..60)
<strong>Force at </strong>Force split of messages after n KBytes (16..63)
<strong>Plus all </strong>Allow areamgr +all command
<strong>Notify </strong>Allow areamgr notify=on/off command
<strong>Passwd </strong>Allow areamgr/filemgr passwd command
<strong>Pause </strong>Allow areamgr pause/resume commands
</pre><p>
When you change one of the <b>Allow areamgr</b> settings, you also need to edit
the file /opt/mbse/english/macro/areamgr.help to reflect the new settings.
Default all these switches are set to Yes.
<P>
A note about the splitting of messages. Some tossers can't handle
messages greater than 16 KBytes, these tossers are rare these days. Most
tossers can handle messages of 32 KBytes. To set these values on the safe
side set "Split at" to 27 and "Force at" to 31. This means that a long
newfile report will be split after 27 KBytes when a new group of files
should start in the report. If it can't find that point because a large
number of files is in the group that is just being processed, the message
split will be forced right after the file that passes the 31 KBytes limit.
I use values of 1 KBytes below maximum for overhead such as SEEN-BY and
PATH lines. Values larger then 32 KBytes is not a good idea, recent tests
in May 1999 have shown that your messages will not reach all systems
if they are larger then 32 KBytes. Splitting is used for newfiles reports
and gated news articles to Fidonet.
<P>
<h3>1.12. Edit Internet mail and news processing.</h3>
<p>
Email and news is setup here. There are three possible configurations which you
can set with 1.12.11:
<ul>
<li><strong>No internet</strong>. If you don't have any connection to the internet
use this setting. Email will come from the default Fidonet UUCP gate and will be send out
via the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
<strong>user@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Note, the username is their
Unix name when sending email.
<li><strong>No maildomain</strong>. If have internet but don't have your own
maildomain (most dialup systems) you should use this mode.
Email will be sent via your local SMTP port, then through your
own sendmail (or whatever you use) to your ISP.
As soon as you are connected to the internet
the mail will be sent to your ISP's mailer. In your sendmail you should
define the mailer of your ISP as Smarthost. Incoming email will still come
from the UUCP gate. Users have email addresses like
<strong>user@f2802.n280.z2.fidonet.org</strong> Incoming email comes from
the default Fidonet UUCP gate.
Note, the username is their Unix name.
If you have your own maildomain, don't use this option, use the next option:
<li><strong>Own maildomain</strong>. If you are permanent connected to the internet
either with a static or dynamic IP address use this option. Use this option
also if you have an UUCP domain and have a dialup UUCP connection. Also
you can use this for dialup if you have your own maildomain without UUCP,
you will then fetch the mail from a multidrop mailbox (POP or IMAP) and
send the mail using SMTP via the SMTP mailer of your provider.<br>
If you have a dynamic IP address you can still get a DNS name from for
example <A HREF="http://www.dynip.com">dynip.com</A>
Incoming email will come directly from the internet, but if someone sends
email via the UUCP gate it is also accepted. Users have email addresses like
<strong>user@yourbbs.domain.org</strong>. Note, the username is their
Unix name and yourbbs.domain.org must be an existing internet domain.
</ul>
A word of wisdom from my side, configuration of the internet, ppp, sendmail etc. is not discussed
here, see the HOWTO's and other documentation that exists at <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">
www.linuxdoc.org</A>, it's all there.
<pre>
<strong>POP3 node </strong>The POP3 node to use, should be localhost
<strong>SMTP node </strong>The SMTP node to use, should be localhost
<strong>NNTP node </strong>The NNTP node to use, should be localhost
<strong>NNTP m.r. </strong>If the NNTP server needs the Mode Reader command
<strong>NNTP user </strong>The username for the NNTP server if needed
<strong>NNTP pass </strong>The password for the NNTP server if needed
<strong>News dupes </strong>The number of entries for the news dupes database.
<strong>Email aka </strong>The Fidonet aka to use for the fidonet.org UUCP gate
<strong>UUCP aka </strong>The default Fidonet UUCP gate, 2:292/875@fidonet
<strong>Emailmode </strong>The email mode, discussed above
<strong>News mode </strong>Newsfeed mode, INN, rnews or UUCP.
<strong>Articles </strong>The default maximum newsarticles to fetch per group.
<strong>Split at </strong>Gently split newfiles reports after n KBytes (12..60)
<strong>Force at </strong>Force split of newfiles reports after n KBytes (16..63)
<strong>Control ok </strong>Allow news control messages to be gated
<strong>No regate </strong>Don't regate already gated messages
In rnews mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
<strong>Path rnews </strong>The full path and filename to the rnews binary.
In UUCP mode the NNTP entries are replaced by:
<strong>UUCP path </strong>The full path to the uucppublic directory.
<strong>UUCP node </strong>The UUCP nodename of your ISP.
</pre><p>
<P>
<h3>1.13. Allfiles and Newfiles lists.</h3>
<p>
These are the settings that affect the generation of newfiles and allfiles reports.
<pre>
<strong>New days </strong>The number of days old files are &quot;newfiles&quot;
<strong>Security </strong>The highest security level to include files in the reports
<strong>Groups </strong>The number of newfile groups the newfiles database can hold
</pre><p>
<h3>1.14. Mailer Setup.</h3>
<p>
Note that you can't disable FTS-0001 sessions as that is a mandatory session
protocol in Fidonet. There are 40 phonenumber translations present, this is for
countries with lots of telephone operators with all kind of prefixes for
carrier select functions. The setting of TCP/IP flags is important too, this
gives the information what this system will do. If you only enter IBN as TCP/IP
flags then the system will only call IBN nodes (binkp). The default is
XX,CM and TCP/IP systems (internet) should use the XX,CM,IBN,IFC flags.
<pre>
<strong>Mailer logl. </strong>The logging level for mailer sessions
<strong>Default phone </strong>The default phonenumber for EMSI sessions
<strong>TCP/IP flags </strong>The TCP/IP capability flags for TCP/IP sessions
<strong>Default speed </strong>The default speed for EMSI sessions
<strong>Timeout reset </strong>The timout for normal modem commands
<strong>Timeout connect </strong>The timeout for waiting for connect
<strong>Dial delay </strong>The maximum delay between calls, minimum is 10 seconds.
<strong>No Filerquests </strong>Disable filerequests
<strong>No callout </strong>Disable callout
<strong>No EMSI session </strong>Disable EMSI
<strong>No YooHoo/2U2 </strong>Disable FTS-0006 sessions
<strong>No Zmodem </strong>Disable zmodem protocol
<strong>No Zedzap </strong>Disable zedzap protocol
<strong>No Hydra </strong>Disable Hydra protocol
<strong>No MD5 </strong>Disable binkp MD5 passwords
<strong>Phonetrans 1..40 </strong>Maximum 40 phone number translations
<strong>Max. files </strong>Maximum files to request, 0 is unlimited
<strong>Max. MBytes </strong>Maximum MBytes to request, 0 is unlimited
</pre>
<h3>1.15. FTPD Settings.</h3>
<p>
A new program is <strong>mbftpd</strong>. This is a replacement for the normal
ftp server for Linux with special futures for MBSE BBS. This is not working
yet and is not included in the distribution. Setting it up is adviced.
<pre>
<strong>Upload pth </strong>Incoming files (ie. /opt/mbse/ftp/incoming).
<strong>Banner msg </strong>The banner file to display before login.
<strong>Path filter </strong>The legal character in upload filenames.
<strong>Path msg </strong>Message to display if illegal characters in upload.
<strong>Email addr </strong>Your email address.
<strong>Shutdown </strong>Shutdown message if FTP server is closed.
<strong>Readme login </strong>Readme to display after login.
<strong>Readme cwd* </strong>Readme to display after chdir.
<strong>Msg login </strong>Welcome message after login.
<strong>Msg cwd* </strong>Message to display in directory.
<strong>Userslimit </strong>Maximum FTP users allowed.
<strong>Loginfails </strong>Maximum login failures.
<strong>Compress </strong>If compress command is allowed.
<strong>Tar </strong>If tar command is allowed.
<strong>Mkdir ok </strong>If users may create directories.
<strong>Log commands </strong>Log user commands.
<strong>Anonymous </strong>If anonymous login is allowed.
<strong>User mbse </strong>If user <strong>mbse</strong> is allowed. Dangerous!
</pre>
<h3>1.16. Edit HTML pages setup.</h3>
<p>
Here you setup the HTML pages that can be created with the <strong>
mbfile web</strong> command. These are HTML pages of your download
areas and indexes of all areas. If there are pictures in these areas
thumbnails are created if you have the <strong>convert</strong>
command available. The document root is the same as defined in your
web server. The link to ftp must be created from that directory to
your ftp base directory. To do that become root, cd to the document root
and type <strong>ln -s /var/spool/mbse/ftp files</strong> In this case the link
is called <strong>files</strong>. Note that all download areas are accesible,
there is no user authentication yet available.
<pre>
<strong>Docs root </strong>The path to the httpd documents root.
<strong>Link to ftp </strong>The link to the ftp directory.
<strong>URL name </strong>The URL of your webserver.
<strong>Charset </strong>The default character set, ISO-8859-1.
<strong>Table color </strong>The tables background color.
<strong>Header color </strong>The tables header background color.
<strong>Author name </strong>The author name you want in the HTTP headers.
<strong>Convert command </strong>The graphics convert command. (ImageMagick needed).
<strong>Files/page </strong>The number of files to display per web page.
<strong>Icon Home </strong>The name of the Home icon file.
<strong>Text Home </strong>The text to display for Home.
<strong>Icon Back </strong>The name of the Back icon file.
<strong>Text Back </strong>The text to display for Back.
<strong>Icon Prev. </strong>The name of the Previous page icon file.
<strong>Text Prev. </strong>The text to display for Previous page.
<strong>Icon Next </strong>The name of the Next page icon file.
<strong>Text Next </strong>The text to display for Next page.
</pre>
<P>
<h3>1.17. Manager flag Descriptions.</h3>
<p>
In this menu you can give the 32 area-/filemgr flags a meaningfull description.
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