(for Unix NFS support).

(just preparing for the future).

consistency. e.g. All telnet-related arguments start with 'T', mail-related
start with 'M', etc.

but may be different for different instances (e.g. vert, rob, cvs.synchro.net).

per sbbs instance).

Handles fdate() returning unsigned -1 (if time_t is defined as a ulong).

facility for all log output.

Eliminated the strcmp's in lputs, put the syslog calls in the appropriate
xxx_lputs functions.
Changed the command-line option to "-d[x]".

Created macro for pid filename.

fixed possible deadlock situation if child threads fail to initialize.