*** Answering a msg posted in area CarbonArea (Private Received Netmail).
Hello Bob Jones!

18 Apr 06 08:11, you wrote to me:

 GKA>> I have trying to install Maximus linux version from
 GKA>> both zip unpacked and cvs doing to get the latest
 GKA>> updates.

 BJ> Good.

I have try to getting it working for some months ago where it first was my
meaning on begun to run linux for systems but dropped again as I have my
msgbase on one pc and files on another pc, so now it has been moved to be
on same mashine it all and my fdo system and other mail system is changed
over to run by linux is it time to getting linux max ready to use for
filebase and find some linux programs there can work with maximus for
filelist doing.
I have used several bbs system in the times, started with Wildcat for the
first use then gone to Opus and from Opus to Maximus (the time before
windows comes in real doing and it was good old DOS system), after some
times running Maximus I change to ru RemoteAccess BBS and then it was now
by 3 mashines with each ow mailer on it and then to elebbs system and then
last to Maximus + some other BBs system for windows 98/2000/xp doing.
It is my mind to starting to find a way to by linux used maxius for user
whenready in linux to telnet to maximus as I have husky soft for mail and
file processing.

 GKA>> It is my meaning on having max to run behind my
 GKA>> mailers for some filelist and filearea doing.
 GKA>> Then I have my old file areas as /home/ftp/pub/fido/
 GKA>> and after change over to all now is linux doing the
 GKA>> new incoming files is on /home/kofo/ftp/ so there is 2
 GKA>> places where my files is.

 BJ> Ok....

 GKA>> I have tried to run ./configure --
 GKA>> prefix=/home/kofo/max and then make + make install

 BJ> Ok.
 GKA>> But when it trying to install it says it not can doing this.

 BJ> (1)  I assume you have the proper permissions on the file tree at
 BJ> /home/kofo/max for the account you are running make on.

 BJ> (2)  If I remember right, you are going to need to pass an argument to
 BJ> make.  From memory "make all" or "make max squish
sqafix" are the
 BJ> needed parameters.  Otherwise, make will have nothing to do.  Ah....
 BJ> After quickly skimming the master Make file again, need "make
 BJ> build".....

 BJ> (3)  You may want to run "make clean" first.

 BJ> (4)  You may have to run the "make build" or equivalent
two or three
 BJ> times before everything succeedes.  If I remember right, there is a
 BJ> library we have out of order in the make that gets missed in the first
 BJ> round for some linking, and gets picked up in the second round.  Also,
 BJ> the first round you need to compile both max and squish before all the
 BJ> libraries get compiled.  Sqafix is also able to be made from the make
 BJ> file, but that was an add on and is not well documented.  I think
 BJ> "make build" builds all three at this time.

 GKA>> Here is so shall I just run it as root or local user
 GKA>> where my system run as fast local use and when it is
 GKA>> done after make install setup my file areas in
 GKA>> filearea.ctl and go throu the other ctl files and set
 GKA>> thenm up to they use the old files places or the new
 GKA>> files path or is there a way to make it to max both se
 GKA>> the new files and old files together.

 BJ> The ./configure script documents that it needs to run as root.  I run
 BJ> max on its own user account.  Don't forget that the first time you run
 BJ> max you need to use the command line option to generate the user
 BJ> database.  This is a one time option.

 BJ> As to file areas, you can set up old areas and new areas -- each as
 BJ> their own area.  [Sort of how I handle tophat.darktech.org for my
 BJ> "archived" file and message areas.]  There is a way to
have files in
 BJ> one area show up in another area for the BBS via paths specified in
 BJ> the files.bbs for the area.  I normally don't use that, and haven't
 BJ> tried it on the Linux version of Max.

 BJ> Note that you will need to watch case of file and path names in max
 BJ> control files.  We tried to make Max case insensative or force case
 BJ> where it made sense for the linux version.  This was because the
 BJ> original code ran in enviornments where the file system is not case
 BJ> sensitive, and Max sometimes wasn't consistent on case.  Linux is case
 BJ> sensitive, and this sometimes bites, especially in the control file
 BJ> setup.  Also, the issue of / vs \ needs to be watched.  I believe I
 BJ> have been using fully specified paths and not much relative paths in
 BJ> the Linux version to get around some issues.

All my directories and paths in linux is in lovercase.
By getting maximus to show and use oldfiles and new files is just how to do
it, it can maybe in some doc and manual for maximus.

             Take care
        Gert Andersen

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