Re: Install on Linux
  By: Al to Bradley D. Thornton on Fri Aug 30 2019 03:12 pm

 > > Should I be creating an account on the system for Mystic to run
under or install as root?
 >
 > You can install mystic as a regular user if you have permission to
create the  destination directory. I have installed as root before to
create the
 > directory  and then chown -R that directory to the desired user:group.
 >
 > Once you are installed run mis with sudo like this..
 >
 > sudo ./mis server (or daemon)
 >
 > and it will bind the ports and drop priveleges and run as the user who owns the
 > files in your mystic directory.
 >
 > Remember to shut down and restart mis when you make changes to node configs.

Fantastic!

Thanks Alan! That's exactly what I was looking to find out. I was at the
wiki before actually d/l'ing the software as I was still trying to eval
from a distance. I've gone through the docs in the bundle have a coupple of
dev instances running before deployment into production, but that does
answer my question - install as root into whichever dir, chown -Rv that
tree and Mystic will run as that user once it binds to the ports and drops
privs :)

I have another question now, although it may be a little off-topic here. I
found http://bbs.nz/files/fidoapp.txt but I'm not sure if I need to contact
the NC for 1:/120 or if it's okay to just send the application to Paul via
netmail. I was 1:120/127 and wish to be again.

BTW, I'm really liking Mystic, although I'm still saddened that Searchlight
fell off the map ages ago. Maybe later I'll try firing that up under dosemu
as a side project, but I'm elated to be preparing to enter the fold after
all these years.
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