Hello everybody!

Here are the instructions from Night Stalker that worked for me.


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Msg : 74 of 307 Rcv
From : Night Stalker 80:519/0 19 Nov 16 21:12:00
To : Tiny
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I wish I could get MBSE to work on my Raspberry Pi... I'd switch to
it
very soon, I like the RA look.

Shawn

I build it on the Pi no problem at all.. No errors or anything.. you just
need to make sure you have the proper packages installed.

First clone the -current source (as root user)

--8<--
cd /tmp
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/mbsebbs/code mbsebbs-code
--8<--

Now as root, enter this line to install all packages you need to successfully build.

apt-get install xinetd telnetd zip unzip libc6-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev

automake arc joe libncurses5-dev libnspr4-dev xorg-dev bison libcap2-dev gdb libsdl1.2-dev libgtk-3-dev lrzsz

There's a lot of stuff to download so it'll take a few minutes. Once finished reboot the machine and login as root user (swap out of X session if needed
with CTRL-ALT-F4)

Now as root

cd /tmp/mbse-code
sh ./SETUP.sh

set a password for the mbse user

then LOGOUT and from the same TTY login login as the MBSE user

then as mbse user

cd /tmp/mbse-code
./configure
make
su
<enter root pw>
make install
exit

You MUST login as the mbse user to be able to build and install correctly. If you just su to the mbse user you will get errors when trying to make install because you didn't follow instructions :)

Now you can configure the BBS.. all configs must be done as mbse user, never use root to do anything in /opt/mbse cuz you'll screw up permissions.

There are HTML docs for the mbsetup program. READ THEM! lol

To configure for the first time (as mbse user)

cd /opt/mbse
./bin/mbtask
./bin/mbsetup

-+- EOF ---

I've successfully built MBSE-current on both Pi's and on Debian 8/x64 so it's almost guaranteed to build for you if you install everything that I listed.

Cavaet: you can debug missing libs fairly easily if you get an error /usr/bin/ld - cannot locate -l<libname>

<libname> can usually be resolved if you apt-cache search <libname>

- NS

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Shawn


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Hello ALL!


Any one tried and been successful on getting mbse installed on a Mac using OSX (10.11) ?

Want to use it as a back up.



Vince

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Here are the instructions from Night Stalker that worked for me.

Thanx :) They do work. I've built MBSE on 5 different Linux distro's on the
Pi just to make sure lol.. there's only one distro that I was unable to build it on.. and it wasn't even on the Pi lol.. it failed to build on Linux Mint 18

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Quoting Dave Vandermeer to Shawn Highfield <=-

Thanx :) They do work. I've built MBSE on 5 different Linux distro's

They sure do! ;)

on the Pi just to make sure lol.. there's only one distro that I was unable to build it on.. and it wasn't even on the Pi lol.. it failed to build on Linux Mint 18

Strange... it's mint based on ubuntu? I've got it to build here on my
ubuntu desktop as well. I've even started getting it configured. :) Have
my "othernets" working perfect, hope to get fido setup tomorrow.

Shawn


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Thanks Shawn,
I applied them and it works on raspberry PI 3. Problem is telnet now
following the mbse doc I configured xinetd but no telnet only from root I can /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin and login but nothing listen on port 23.

Thanks

Tony

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Hello Tony,

On 28 Nov 16 09:20, Tony wrote to Shawn Highfield:

Thanks Shawn,
I applied them and it works on raspberry PI 3. Problem is telnet now following the mbse doc I configured xinetd but no telnet only from
root I can /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin and login but nothing listen on port
23.

Have you opened these ports on your router as well?

Regards,
Nick

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Thanks Shawn,
I applied them and it works on raspberry PI 3. Problem is telnet now following the mbse doc I configured xinetd but no telnet only from root
I can /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin and login but nothing listen on port 23.

You have to edit /etc/xinetd.d/mbsebbs

in the telnet { } change the line telnetd to in.telnetd because it uses
netkit wrapper for the daemon.. restart xinetd with /etc/init.d/xinetd
restart and you're good to go

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: internal dimension ≈ idbbs.dlinkddns.com ≈ port 59 (1:249/275)

Quoting Tony to Shawn Highfield <=-

I applied them and it works on raspberry PI 3. Problem is telnet now following the mbse doc I configured xinetd but no telnet only from
root I can /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin and login but nothing listen on port
23.

Make sure /etc/services has port 23 enabled.
(or whatever port you want)

telnet 23/tcp # Telnet for MBSE

and then in /etc/xinet.d edit the mbsebbs file and
make sure service telnet is changed to disable = no
and if you're using the standard debian based distro on the pi also
make sure the server line is:
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

That will get things rolling for you.

Shawn



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Quoting Tony to Shawn Highfield <=-

I applied them and it works on raspberry PI 3. Problem is telnet now following the mbse doc I configured xinetd but no telnet only from
root I can /opt/mbse/bin/mblogin and login but nothing listen on port
23.

I replied in fsxnet, but to recap:

make sure telnet is enabled in /etc/services

also make sure you changed /etc/xinet.d/mbsebbs and under the telnet
section disable = no, and while in there change the server line to
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

That should fix you up.

Shawn


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Hello Shawn,

On 30 Nov 16 06:29, Shawn Highfield wrote to Tony:

I replied in fsxnet, but to recap:

make sure telnet is enabled in /etc/services

also make sure you changed /etc/xinet.d/mbsebbs and under the telnet section disable = no, and while in there change the server line to
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

That should fix you up.

Even after all of this is done, if you don't open the proper port(s) on your router connecting your LAN to the rest of the world, people still won't be able
to connect from outside his LAN. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Nicholas!

30 Nov 16 08:50, you wrote to me:

Even after all of this is done, if you don't open the proper port(s)
on your router connecting your LAN to the rest of the world, people
still won't be able to connect from outside his LAN. :)

True, however we know he knows how to configure his router because he was running mystic BBS and could connect to it. ;) Which is why I went with the MBSE specific changes he would have to make as they also held me up for a bit.

Next, utf8, I'm giving up on ipv6 for now. I know it works outbound, but it just doesn't work inbound. I have hopes for a new version of the stock linksys firmware so I have a gui to forward the ipv6 ports. ;)

Shawn
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Hello Shawn,

On 30 Nov 16 13:58, Shawn Highfield wrote to Nicholas Boel:

Even after all of this is done, if you don't open the proper
port(s) on your router connecting your LAN to the rest of the
world, people still won't be able to connect from outside his
LAN. :)

True, however we know he knows how to configure his router because
he was running mystic BBS and could connect to it. ;) Which is why I
went with the MBSE specific changes he would have to make as they also held me up for a bit.

I must have missed that part, and also didn't realize MBSE still required a 3rd
party telnet server.

Next, utf8, I'm giving up on ipv6 for now. I know it works
outbound, but it just doesn't work inbound. I have hopes for a new version of the stock linksys firmware so I have a gui to forward the
ipv6 ports. ;)

What router are you using?

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Nicholas!

30 Nov 16 18:11, you wrote to me:

I must have missed that part, and also didn't realize MBSE still
required a 3rd party telnet server.

It doesn't, it just needs to be configured in /etc/services and xinet.d
as telnet is always disabled by default now.

What router are you using?

Linksys wrt1900acs with dd-wrt build 3088m

Shawn


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Hello Shawn,

On 01 Dec 16 05:38, Shawn Highfield wrote to Nicholas Boel:

I must have missed that part, and also didn't realize MBSE still
required a 3rd party telnet server.

It doesn't, it just needs to be configured in /etc/services and
xinet.d as telnet is always disabled by default now.

I would consider 'telnetd' a third party application to MBSE itself (ie: there's no built-in telnet server for MBSE). Granted, telnetd comes with just about every Linux distribution out there, so it's not a hassle at all.

What router are you using?

Linksys wrt1900acs with dd-wrt build 3088m

I posted another message in regards to this in the IPv6 echo. You've probably already responded by now. :)

Regards,
Nick

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