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Welcome to Eagles BBS 3.1.1 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. See the COPYING file for further information. Eagles BBS 3 is a standalone, screen-oriented bulletin board package. It is the successor to Eagles BBS version 2, which was built upon Ed Luke's Pirates BBS package. The user interface from those programs has been kept intact for the most part, and some code has been reused. For the most part this is a complete rewrite though, to correct some basic limitations and inefficiencies present in Pirates and Eagles 2.x. This software has a fairly full-featured message posting and private mail system, its own IRC-like chat system, and private talk facility. It has configurable menus allowing custom arrangement of the builtin functions and any external programs you care to hook in. One thing Eagles BBS is not suited for quite yet is as a fancy shell. All BBS users run as a single user, so things like shell access and news do not integrate very well. You should probably look elsewhere if BBS users are to be anything more than guests on your system. One improvement over Pirates and old Eagles is much greater runtime configuration. A lot of stuff you used to have to recompile to change is now in config files read in at runtime. All of these files are ASCII so they may be patched with an editor if needed. The stock config files are in the config directory and reside in ~bbs/etc at runtime. IMPORTANT: If you are already using an earlier version of EBBS 3, be SURE to read the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog to see what has changed before continuing!!! All documentation has been moved into the EBBS-Guide. Please consult it for installation and configuration instructions, examples, and technical information. The Linux ELF binary distribution, ebbs-3.1.1.bin.tar.gz, was built with gcc 2.7.2, libc 5.4.33, and binutils 2.8.1.0.1. You should have Linux 2.0 or later and the GNU shared C library version 5.4.x or later. Earlier versions of the kernel and shared C library may or may not work. The source distribution, ebbs-3.1.1.tar.gz, should build under recent versions of Linux, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, Digital Unix, NextStep, A/UX, Unixware, Ultrix, MachTen, HPUX, FreeBSD, and IRIX. You should go through the Makefile and osdeps.h to set up the conditional defines for your operating system -- see EBBS-Guide under "Building the Source" for details. If you have an operational EBBS 2.x that you want to convert to version 3, you'll need the source distribution and the conversion package, cvtpkg.tar.gz. It should be available at ftp://ftp.datasync.com/pub/ebbs or other sites. Get it and see the enclosed README for the scoop on getting your existing BBS converted to version 3.1. Add-on packages (useful scripts, safe editors, etc.) are under development. Check the ftp site mentioned above to see what's there. EBBS Mailing List ----------------- I have set up a mailing list for EBBS. There is no one on it but myself as I write this, but I wanted it there before distributing this code, so everyone who uses EBBS may be informed of security issues, bugs, patches, and so forth as they happen. The list is not moderated at this time so feel free to post for help with things. If it starts getting a lot of traffic I'll make a separate moderated ebbs-announce list for the important stuff. To subscribe: send a message to [email protected] with subscribe ebbs end in the body (not Subject) of the message. If that doesn't work mail me at the address at the bottom of this file. The TODO list ------------- These features aren't there, but might be one day: -- Mail clean program (will be released as an add-on package) -- Tagging of messages in mail, for deleting or forwarding. -- Reading lists that allow each user to specify the order to scan the boards during a new message scan. -- The big TODO: A split into client and server, with which the client can run on a different machine and do things like editing, menu movements, shell escapes, job control, etc. locally. (Update: I have a client/server pair that has all the regular features except talk working. It's really slow though. As soon as I can write some functional documentation for it, I'll throw it out for anyone who wants to experiment with it.) Known Bugs ---------- -- On the File Menu, the "Current Board" is shown is not the currently selected File board. It is correct on the Download read-menu. (The fix isn't worth the trouble) -- The file-based user table is reported to have some problems. This is only an issue if you do not have a shared memory facility. Credits ------- Thanks to these people for helping code, test, debug, and port EBBS 3! Ed Luke Ray Seyfarth Bill Schwartz Xabier Vazquez Gallardo John Salmi Paul Snow Mark Roe Andre Schmidt Jon Stevens Thanh Ma Alex Schubert Jiri Randus Rob Woodard Mike McCallum Randy Austin Alexis Yushin J. Douglas Armstrong Everyone at the Eagle's Nest and Auggie BBS Additional tip of the hat for assistance with previous versions of EBBS: Guy Vega, Dominic Tynes, Jim Morton, Carey Chou ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Good luck, and happy BBSing! TheRock In real life: Ray Rocker On the air: WQ5L Internet: [email protected]
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Eagle BBS is F/OSS text mode BBS software from the 1990's. It's a classic and so lightweight that chances are it still has some uses in the twenty-first century.
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