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Sean Dennis wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Understood. I do have an /etc/inetd.conf on my Slackware boxes, but was trying this MBSE experiment on one running "MX Linux", which I actually like quite a bit. A Debian descendent (via Mepis/AntiX) which doesn't
use 'systemd'. There is no inetd.conf (or xinetd.con) in /etc there... I've done some searching, and it seems it can be installed but isn't
there by default. Interesting. I may give that another try tomorrow.

That may be part of the problem: the initialization script may not have seen MX Linux as a distro and didn't stop to warn you to install
xinitd. If you look closely at SETUP.sh in /mbsebbs-code, you'll see
that MX Linux is not one of the "known" distros and that is why you
have had so many issues.

Yes, sometime soon I'm going to install xinetd on that box and give it
another go.

At a terminal, try running "cat /etc/os-release" and let us know what
it says in MIN_BBS, please. We need all the help we can get.

Here's what that returns, should be seen as Debian:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Understood, and appreciate both of your efforts. I'm interested in this BBS software, as I'm getting a little bored with Synchronet and might start up a second BBS. Don't want to use Mystic and would prefer something Linux-native. I'll update if I can get it going. Thanks for the reply and the info!

Admittedly, MBSE has a learning curve, but once you've mastered it, it
is reliable and functions well.

Let's move this over to MIN_BBS.

Thanks again, and I'll update again after my next attempt.


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