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Commit 131d239f authored by rswindell's avatar rswindell
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Minor update/arrangement to the Unix-specific stuff.

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......@@ -77,6 +77,23 @@ The server/host-specific configuration options are set with sbbs command-line
options (run "sbbs help" for a list), or by editing the Synchronet
Initialization file (e.g. ctrl/sbbs.ini).
Initialization File
-------------------
The default initalization file is ctrl/sbbs.ini. A different initialization
(.ini) filename may be used by specifying the path and filename on the sbbs
command-line. Example:
sbbs /sbbs/ctrl/mybbs.ini
If the path and filename of the initialization file is not passed on the
command-line, sbbs will use the SBBSCTRL environment variable to determine
the location of your Synchronet ctrl directory, where it expects to find
either <HOSTNAME>.ini or sbbs.ini.
For Unix Sysops
---------------
You will particularily want to pay attention to the [UNIX] section of sbbs.ini
if you do not want to run Synchronet (and all doors!) as root (You don't), you
will have to set the User= and Group= lines.
......@@ -97,23 +114,9 @@ of Synchronet as appropriate. Specifically, S will use:
LOG_CRON
Initialization File
-------------------
The default initalization file is ctrl/sbbs.ini. A different initialization
(.ini) filename may be used by specifying the path and filename on the sbbs
command-line. Example:
sbbs /sbbs/ctrl/mybbs.ini
If the path and filename of the initialization file is not passed on the
command-line, sbbs will use the SBBSCTRL environment variable to determine
the location of your Synchronet ctrl directory, where it expects to find
either <HOSTNAME>.ini or sbbs.ini.
Terminal Capabilities
---------------------
As you have probobly noticed by now, most telnet programs designed for BBSs
As you have probobly noticed by now, most telnet programs designed for BBSes
do not display screens in *nix programs correctly. Included with Synchronet
is a pair of files to enable you to run native *nix programs and have the
output be useable in standard BBS terminals. These files are termcap and
......@@ -131,7 +134,8 @@ Installing the termcap:
2) Enter the command ``cat termcap >> /etc/termcap''
3) *** FreeBSD Only *** run the command:
``cap_mkdb -f /usr/share/misc/termcap.db /etc/termcap''
Once the are installed, edit the ExternalTerm line in your *.ini file to read:
Once they are installed, edit the ExternalTerm line in your *.ini file to read:
ExternalTerm=ansi-bbs
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