Hi,

Here are a number of suggestions that might have merit where Maximus BBS is 
concerned:

Run Maximus as user maximus, and belonging to group squish, reason being that 
other Fido programs already use fido, bbs. ftn as users and groups, and thus 
cause conflicts. Maximus and squish, are not likely to be used by any other 
fidonet software, now and/or in future.

Then again, not many people are going to try running Maximus and MBSE BBS on 
the same system.

In my case, it is problematic running MBSE BBS and Maximus on the same 
system, even if one stops MBSE, and then runs Maximus, with MBSE user bbs, is 
the username that a new user is instructed to use, when he dials into a MBSE 
BBS for the first time. User bbs, does not have a password, and takes one 
imeidiately to the new user login/registration screen.

Here is the issue file that mgetty shows when a caller calls my MBSE system,


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      .--.                Welcome at Rusty's BBS
     |o_o |               ----------------------
     |:_/ |
    //   \\ \\   Abandon all hope ye, who have entered cyberspace.
   (|     | )
  /'\\_   _/\`\\                 ENJOY!!
  \\___)=(___/                   -------
                 If you already have a bbs login, please login useing it.
                 If you are a new user, login as user: bbs

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Instead of/in place of, username, bbs, a username of ccs (Computer 
Comunication System) could be used for Maximus.

Use mgetty or getty_ps for answering the telephone line, as both are capable 
of "detecting" Fido type connections / and or mailers and work
well in this 
role.

For a mailer use ifcico, or Qico with the above getty's. This method, is 
prefered as it allows one to use your com ports with other programs like 
minicom or seyom (terminal programs) to connect to other BBS systems. 
Comports on Intel systems being scarce items, and with Linux boxes being able 
to connect to the internet via the same ports and modem as the BBS uses, 
makes sense.

BinkleyTerm XE also works a treat, with the exception that it takes complete 
control of the comport, and does not allow it to be used by other programs 
while it is running. To use the comport you have to kill Binkley, do what you 
want to do, and then restart Binkley, which is not required with the getty's 
mentioned above.

It might be of value, if you take a look at the way MBSE BBS'es setup scripts 
work, they are quite good, tho not perfect, it might be educational, then 
again, it might be "old news".

Hopefully this post makes some sense to all. :-))

Russell

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