Since the old BBS was definitely a old version and I got 3.19 working on Linux. What are the chances of being able to move the old board and it's mods over to this Linux install?
I assume, the copy and drop files into the
folders are not going to work. With some maybe, but I doubt it will go that easy.
Very good.
It will work for things like menus (*.ans, *.asc) and other display files, but be sure to double-check that command keys haven't been changed (where applicable) since 2009.
Baja modules (*.src, *.bin) will mostly "just work" still.
I'm not sure what other files you're considering "dropping", so please clarify. --
Some of it is funny. 100 nodes? Not even sure what I was thinking there. Grand visions of being the next AOL?
:-) Many door games require that you have a separate configuration (e.g. cfg file) for each node, so that could get pretty tedius to support correctly.
:-) Many door games require that you have a separate configuration (e.g. cfg file) for each node, so that could get pretty tedius to support correctly.
The new BBS is going to have 8 nodes.
The old one was version 3.14 and I am finding out this is not gonna be easy at all, or not till I get a grasp on this. So I figured the FTP display files would be the easiest to drop in. So I took the old ones and put them in the new text folder. Not displaying them on the new BBS. I have a feeling something isn't configured to look in the correct area or??? Small steps.
What's an "FTP display file"?
Some of it is funny. 100 nodes? Not even sure what I was thinking
there. Grand visions of being the next AOL?
:-) Many door games require that you have a separate configuration (e.g. cfg file) for each node, so that could get pretty tedius to support
What's an "FTP display file"?
I made ones for the old BBS and figured this was easiest to drop in and test. Unless this was removed from the new version. Figured if the new build see's these and displays them correctly I would start moving on to login screen, then the login script, and move along that way.
The Synchronet FTP server can optionally send text files from your text directory to the FTP client/user under certain conditions:
Filename Description
ftplogin.txt Sent before the username and password is requested ftphello.txt Sent upon successful login
ftpbadlogin.txt Sent upon unsuccessful login attempt
ftpbye.txt Sent upon logoff (before server acknowledgment of the QUIT command)
Re: New project, with linux and SBBS
By: Digital Man to Phantomrage on Mon Oct 24 2022 03:29 pm
Some of it is funny. 100 nodes? Not even sure what I was thinking
there. Grand visions of being the next AOL?
:-) Many door games require that you have a separate configuration (e.g. cfg file) for each node, so that could get pretty tedius to support
Often, the only difference is the path to the dropfile.. When I was running my BBS on Windows, there was a program I wrote that would copy the first configuration file of a door for however many nodes you have and change the path of the dropfile in the config files (assuming the only difference was the node number in the path).
Some of it is funny. 100 nodes? Not even sure what I was thinking there. Grand visions of being the next AOL?
I ran configured to 25 for a long while, only once got something like 17 around 2003, and that took coordinated effort and several people showing
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