UNIX BBS Software Wanted
David Guntner
machine as part of their "public outreach" program, and I'm looking for
some decent software to use. It will be running on a SPARCstation IPC
(unless something changes) which is running SunOS (although I could be
wrong here and it's actually running Solaris - I haven't been able to
look the machine over yet). I need, preferably, a package which will
allow the users access to Usenet newsgroups (preferably via NNTP, since
they have a server there which we can connect to). And (of course :), it
needs to be free software since they have no budget for software for this
beast. Any information on where I can FTP various packages from would be
appreciated.
Reply here if you like, but I'll be most likely to see it if you E-Mail
instead/also. :-)
Thanks in advance.
--Dave
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Lisa Kelley
DA>A local university has asked me to setup a BBS program on one of their
DA>machine as part of their "public outreach" program, and I'm looking for
DA>some decent software to use. It will be running on a SPARCstation IPC
Dave,
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station. It is a complete online interactive software platform that
supports up to 256 users on one machine connecting via modems, serial
links or TCP/IP. Includes SMTP/NNTP/POP3 messaging, NNTP server,
telnet, ftp, rlogin, finger, IRC, HTTP 1.0 compliant WWW server with
CGI support and User Defined Applications for adding external
applications.
All with a Windows Interface for the end user as well as ASNI/ASCII and
RIPterm support. Please call our UNIX DemoSys at 954/583-1759 or
telnet to unix.gcomm.com.
If you have any other questions please let me know. You can also call
me on our sales line at 800/328-1128 or send me e-mail at
lke...@gcomm.com.
Take care,
Lisa Kelley
Galacticomm, Inc.
David Guntner
In article <NEWTNews.812185...@interramp.com>,
<Ch...@interramp.com> wrote:
>
>In article <davidgDF...@netcom.com>, <dav...@netcom.com> writes:
>>
>> A local university has asked me to setup a BBS program on one of their
>> machine as part of their "public outreach" program, and I'm looking for
>> some decent software to use. It will be running on a SPARCstation IPC
>> (unless something changes) which is running SunOS (although I could be
>> wrong here and it's actually running Solaris - I haven't been able to
>> look the machine over yet). I need, preferably, a package which will
>> allow the users access to Usenet newsgroups (preferably via NNTP, since
>> they have a server there which we can connect to). And (of course :), it
>> needs to be free software since they have no budget for software for this
>> beast. Any information on where I can FTP various packages from would be
>> appreciated.
>
>Well dave I know there are some dinky software floating around the net that
>have BBS capabilities... but what functionalities other than NEWS will you
>be requiring and what type of clients will they be running. It is possible
>to combine various software (freeware) out there to accomodate your need.
>When I write functionalities I mean:
>
> Download
> Upload
> E-Mail
> Telnet out
> Telnet in
> FTP out
> .., etc y ou catch my dift.
I follow you. :-) By "they" in "What clients will they be running," if
you mean the users, they'll just be running regular comm programs to dial
in. Yes, downloading/uploading would be nice, but it's not crucial, and
isn't even in the immediate plans for it. E-Mail is good. :-) And as I
mentioned, news needs to be via NNTP, since this machine won't have the
disk space needed to take a feed.
Ideas?
--Dave
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jonk...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
: In article <davidgDF...@netcom.com>, <dav...@netcom.com> writes:
: >
: > A local university has asked me to setup a BBS program on one of their
: > machine as part of their "public outreach" program, and I'm looking for
: > some decent software to use. It will be running on a SPARCstation IPC
: > (unless something changes) which is running SunOS (although I could be
: > wrong here and it's actually running Solaris - I haven't been able to
: > look the machine over yet). I need, preferably, a package which will
: > allow the users access to Usenet newsgroups (preferably via NNTP, since
: > they have a server there which we can connect to). And (of course :), it
: > needs to be free software since they have no budget for software for this
: > beast. Any information on where I can FTP various packages from would be
: > appreciated.
: >
: > Reply here if you like, but I'll be most likely to see it if you E-Mail
: > instead/also. :-)
: >
: > Thanks in advance.
: >
: Well dave I know there are some dinky software floating around the net that
: have BBS capabilities... but what functionalities other than NEWS will you
: be requiring and what type of clients will they be running. It is possible
: to combine various software (freeware) out there to accomodate your need.
: When I write functionalities I mean:
: Download
: Upload
: E-Mail
: Telnet out
: Telnet in
: FTP out
: .., etc y ou catch my dift.
Well, I'd recommend using Lynx, with pine, tin, rz, sz etc. It can
function as a bbs if it is setup right, for instance that is basically
what the Edmonton Freenet here..I can help more if you need it even
though I'm not much of a Unix person, but I am experimenting with Linux.. :)
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Ch...@interramp.com
Well I think LINUX could handle such task ... except uploads and downloads
(ftp in and out instead), I don;t know if pine has upload and download cap.
but if it does, then all your problems would be resolved. Well hallf of them
.. Hope you know UNIX like a pro :) you are going to need it. Unfortunatelly
that is the price you pay for FREE stuff. Consult the LINUX groups and see
what they have to say.
-Chike
mosaic
: A local university has asked me to setup a BBS program on one of their
: machine as part of their "public outreach" program, and I'm looking for
: some decent software to use. It will be running on a SPARCstation IPC
: (unless something changes) which is running SunOS (although I could be
: wrong here and it's actually running Solaris - I haven't been able to
: look the machine over yet). I need, preferably, a package which will
: allow the users access to Usenet newsgroups (preferably via NNTP, since
: they have a server there which we can connect to). And (of course :), it
: needs to be free software since they have no budget for software for this
: beast. Any information on where I can FTP various packages from would be
: appreciated.
: Reply here if you like, but I'll be most likely to see it if you E-Mail
: instead/also. :-)
: Thanks in advance.
: --Dave
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I am not sure if the BBS that I can think of off the top of my head has SPARC
version or not but two BBS sfotwares comes to my mind. Eagle BBS and
mbox2.6. I am running both on Linux box and mbox can even handle incoming
email to individual BBS user. You can implement rtin or trn with nntp within
the menu of mbox and I have not been successful in getting either trn or rtin
to run under Eagle BBS due to some permission and terminal set-up error.
mbox2.6 supports even CD-ROM directory. You can find the Linux version at
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/BBS or something like that. I hope this
helps.