Re: SBBS and services under Linux
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Nov 12 2019 07:20 am

 > I've run Synchronet for years under Windows and wanted to understand how
 > other people here configure their BBSes when running under *nix.
 >
 > Do you run another web server like Apache or Nginx and then set up
 > Synchronet as a sgi handler to handle .ssjs files? Or use Synchronet as your
 > primary web server? Or configure another web server as a reverse proxy?
 >
 > Ditto for mail - I'd like to be able to use procmail and other anti-spam
 > tools, not sure how I'd have one MTA on the system answer for incoming mail
 > and then hand off to Synchronet.
 >
 > Or, do you just have Synchronet handling everything?

So for me, on the linux server I have hosting Synchronet, I've made sure all
services Synchronet can handle were turned off. The only exception is I left
sshd on running on the default 22 port and changed Synchronet's ssh port to
2222. So Synchronet is handling it all, except I have rlogin and a few other
services disabled. I might change it around and disable Synchronet's mail
services and put those direct on the server.

I think it's going to simply be your personal preference on how you go about it
as you could run most of Synchronet's services on different ports other then
default. A matter of if you're using the vps for something other then hosting
Synchronet or not.

-altere

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 þ Synchronet þ Athelstan BBS - athelstan.org ssh:2222 telnet:23