Re: What software ?
  By: Nigel Reed to Vince Coen on Fri Jul 23 2004 01:27 pm

So, I'm following up on my own messages - don't care :)

This MBSE is a great piece of software...

as per INSTALL

su
[type rootpassword]
make install

[root{at}wibble mbsebbs-0.60.0]# make install
*** You are not logged in as user 'mbse' ***
make: *** [install] Error 1

Hrm, let's do it as mbse user then...

Hm, looks good...

 Must be root to install!

Absolute genius,

Regards
Nigel

 >   Re: What software ?
 >   By: Vince Coen to Nigel Reed on Fri Jul 23 2004 04:05 pm
 > 
 >  > Hello Nigel!
 >  >
 >  > 22 Jul 04 20:22, you wrote to All:
 >  >
 >  >  NR> Can anyone recommend some free software for running a
BBS on Linux?
 >  >  NR> I'm pretty much at the end of my rope with Synchronet
and would like
 >  >  NR> to try some alternatives.
 >  >
 >  > Try mbse full native bbs using jam msg base.
 >  >
 >  > Works very well and very well supported by the Author and the rest of us
 >  > sysops.  See the 'mbse' echo for other info if needed.
 > 
 > Interesting, however I'm not going to install software that says it's
 > going to start changing my system files. Also, I don't like the look of
 > "bbs user is created as the login user". Does this mean it
doesn't have
 > any login control of its own and relies upon the linux side of things to
 > handle that? Ie, am I going to have a lot of "bbs" users
logged in when I
 > type who.
 > 
 > My machine isn't mission critical, but I'm not about to let some piece of
 > software take over.
 > 
 > Regards
 > Nigel
 > 
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