From 03f5b7fcc24e63c3794007b1e302355847551015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deuce <>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:34:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Notes for sysop paging under FreeBSD.

---
 docs/sbbscon.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sbbscon.txt b/docs/sbbscon.txt
index a076bfdc1c..47b4095672 100644
--- a/docs/sbbscon.txt
+++ b/docs/sbbscon.txt
@@ -242,4 +242,12 @@ esac
 exit 0
 --- CUT --- END OF FILE --- CUT ---
 
+A note on SysOp paging:
+For most systems, the BBS must run as root to page the SysOp.  FreeBSD supports
+an alternative method which requires a custom kernel with the option:
+
+pseudo-device speaker
+
+/dev/speaker should be read/writeable by the user the BBS runs as.
+
 /* End of sbbscon.txt */
-- 
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