Subj : Installing or re-installing  mbse
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sun Apr 06 2014 02:09 am

Hello Andrew!

05 Apr 14 11:53, you wrote to me:

 > With my setup, the complete BBS is on a separate partition.  In your
 > changes, are you still creating BBS user home directories under the
 > MBSE_ROOT directory? ie: $MBSE_ROOT/home/username  When upgrading to
 > 1.0.2, will we have to rename /opt/mbse to /home/mbsebbs and then
 > create a symlink from /opt/mbse to /home/mbsebbs?

Yes it is all the same the only difference is that the mbse directory is
located /home instead of /opt.

If the previously installed scripts as well as any new ones still have the 
code
that sets up $MBSE_ROOT and exports it all will be fine.

Some manual changes are needed however if updating an existing system
previously under /opt but nothing complicated.

I will have a go and producing a script that deals with that using a standard
distro environment.

Stopping mbse.

Clearly the new system has to be created into a temp directory and the system
compiled as per normal, then the existing /etc/passwd has to be changed for
mbse, bbs and any bbs users to point to /home instead of /opt.


ditto changes to /etc/xinetd.d/mbsebbs to replace '/opt' to '/home'.

and some others.

but after that it is just a :
cd /home
sudo mv mbse build-mbse
sudo mv /opt/mbse /home

and restart mbse.

Above is by memory but I am creating notes of the changes and once that is
complete I can start looking at a script to try and do most of the donkey 
work.


Vince

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