Quick Install Guide
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This the quick installation guide for Firebird BBS ytht version
The installation document and administration guide is in
doc
This BBS has been tested on x86 machine running redhat linux 6.2.
It should run on any linux system.
It perhaps will run on other Unix system.
For impatient users,
1. Add a user for running bbs service on your system
You can name this user as "bbs" traditionaly.But you can name this user anything else.
On redhat like linux and debian linux, just run a command like this:
adduser bbs
Don't forget set a password for bbs user.
2.
Edit site/bbsconfig.sample and save it as site/bbsconfig
Edit site/seclist.txt.sample and save it as site/seclist.txt
If you don't know what these mean,you can just copy bbsconfig.sample to bbsconfig...
Make sure values of LAST_BBS_UID LAST_BBS_GID LAST_BBS_USER is right.
Make sure values of LAST_CGIPATH and LAST_HTMPATH is right if you would like
to have a web interface.
The default value for LAST_CGIPATH should work on RedHat 9.
In Debian woody, LAST_CGIPATH should be /usr/lib/cgi-bin.
3.
If you get souce code from our cvs, you should run ./makedist.sh.
If it complain it can't find the directory of autoconf or automake,
you can link your auto* program to the name automake or autoconf
4. Run the following commands to install bbs
./configure --with-defaults #if you don't want to change the default value
make
make install
/home/bbs/bin/shminit
5. Make sure that you have stopped telnet service of your server. Run the
standlone bbs daemon as root
/home/bbs/bin/bbsd
6. try it
telnet localhost
7. It is hoped that you could see the BBS 'welcome' message then. Login as
'new' and create the 'SYSOP' account (case sensitive). This account will
acquire full permissions in your BBS.
8. Login as 'new' and Create the 'guest' account. Or if you want to disable 'guest', add
'guest' to the list of ~bbs/.badname
9. See INSTALL.web for web interface.
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