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<h1>Citadel/UX</h1>
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<h2>a messaging and collaboration platform for BBS and groupware applications</h2>
- Copyright ©1987-2003 by the Citadel development team:<br>
- <br>
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+ Copyright ©1987-2003 by the Citadel development team:<br>
+ <br>
+
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0" align="center">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Steven M. Bellovin<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>author of public domain 'parsedate' function<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Nathan Bryant<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>build system, security, database access,
- and others<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Art Cancro<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>overall system design and lead developer<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Brian Costello<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>cosmetics, additional commands<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Michael Hampton<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>client software development<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Andru Luvisi<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>troubleshooting and development assistance<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Daniel Malament<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>string compare function for IMAP server<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Stu Mark<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>additional client features, IGnet protocol
- design<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Ben Mehlman<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>additional client features<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Ari Samson<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>assistance with project management<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">John Walker<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>author of public domain base64 encoder/decoder<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Steve Williams<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>documentation<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">Ethan Young<br>
- </td>
- <td valign="top"><i>IGnet protocol design<br>
- </i></td>
- </tr>
-
- </tbody>
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Steven M. Bellovin<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>author of public domain 'parsedate' function<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Nathan Bryant<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>build system, security, database access,
+ and others<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Art Cancro<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>overall system design and lead developer<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Brian Costello<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>cosmetics, additional commands<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Michael Hampton<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>client software development<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Andru Luvisi<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>troubleshooting and development assistance<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Daniel Malament<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>string compare function for IMAP server<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Stu Mark<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>additional client features, IGnet protocol
+ design<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Ben Mehlman<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>additional client features<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Ari Samson<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>assistance with project management<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">John Walker<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>author of public domain base64 encoder/decoder<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Steve Williams<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>documentation<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Ethan Young<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><i>IGnet protocol design<br>
+ </i></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ </tbody>
</table>
- </div>
- <br>
-
-<div align="justify">The entire package is open source; you can redistribute
- and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
-or (at your option) any later version.<br>
- <br>
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
+ </div>
+ <br>
+
+<div align="justify">The entire package is open source; you can redistribute
+ and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
+ or (at your option) any later version.<br>
+ <br>
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+ or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details. </div>
-
+
<div align="justify"><br>
- For more information, visit either of these locations on the web:<br>
-
+ For more information, visit either of these locations on the web:<br>
+
<ul>
- <li>The Citadel home page: <a href="http://www.citadel.org">http://www.citadel.org</a></li>
- <li>UNCENSORED! BBS, the home of Citadel: <a
+
<li>The Citadel home page: <a href="http://www.citadel.org">http://www.citadel.org</a></li>
+
<li>UNCENSORED! BBS, the home of Citadel: <a
href="http://uncensored.citadel.org">http://uncensored.citadel.org</a></li>
-
+
</ul>
-
-<hr width="100%" size="2">
+
+<hr width="100%" size="2">
<h2 align="center">Table of Contents</h2>
-
+
<ol>
- <li><a href="#GPL">License</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Installation">Installation</a></li>
-
+
<li><a href="#GPL">License</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Installation">Installation</a></li>
+
<ol>
- <li><a href="#Everything_in_its_place...">Everything in its place...</a></li>
- <li><a href="#The_BBS_Login">The BBS Login</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Bypassing_the_login:_prompt">Bypassing the login: prompt</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Compiling_the_programs">Compiling the programs</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Upgrading">Upgrading</a></li>
- <li><a href="#The_citadel.rc_file">The citadel.rc file</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Using_an_external_editor_for_message">Using an external
+
<li><a href="#Everything_in_its_place...">Everything in its place...</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#The_BBS_Login">The BBS Login</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Bypassing_the_login:_prompt">Bypassing the login: prompt</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Compiling_the_programs">Compiling the programs</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Upgrading">Upgrading</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#The_citadel.rc_file">The citadel.rc file</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Using_an_external_editor_for_message">Using an external
editor for message composition</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Printing_messages">Printing messages</a></li>
- <li><a href="#URL_viewing">URL viewing</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Setup_and_login">Setup and login</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Configuring_your_host_system_to_start">Configuring your
+
<li><a href="#Printing_messages">Printing messages</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#URL_viewing">URL viewing</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Setup_and_login">Setup and login</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Configuring_your_host_system_to_start">Configuring your
host system to start the service</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Logging_in_for_the_first_time">Logging in for the first
+ <li><a href="#Logging_in_for_the_first_time">Logging in for the first
time</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Welcoming_new_users">Welcoming new users</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Space_for_adding_your_own_client">Space for adding your
+
<li><a href="#Welcoming_new_users">Welcoming new users</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Space_for_adding_your_own_client">Space for adding your
own client features (doors)</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Troubleshooting_and_getting_help">Troubleshooting and
-getting help</a><br>
- </li>
-
+ <li><a href="#Troubleshooting_and_getting_help">Troubleshooting and
+ getting help</a><br>
+ </li>
+
</ol>
- <li><a href="#sysop">System Administration</a></li>
-
+
<li><a href="#sysop">System Administration</a></li>
+
<ol>
- <li><a href="#Overview_">Overview</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Aide_commands">Aide commands</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Editing_rooms">Editing rooms</a></li>
- <li><a href="#File_directories">File directories</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Creating_and_editing_user_accounts">Creating and editing
+
<li><a href="#Overview_">Overview</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Aide_commands">Aide commands</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Editing_rooms">Editing rooms</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#File_directories">File directories</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Creating_and_editing_user_accounts">Creating and editing
user accounts</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Deleting_and_moving_messages">Deleting and moving messages</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Customizing_the_help_files">Customizing the help files</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Site_configuration">Site configuration</a><br>
- </li>
-
+
<li><a href="#Deleting_and_moving_messages">Deleting and moving messages</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Customizing_the_help_files">Customizing the help files</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Site_configuration">Site configuration</a><br>
+ </li>
+
</ol>
- <li> <a href="#Configuring_Citadel_for_Internet_e-mail">Configuring
+ <li> <a href="#Configuring_Citadel_for_Internet_e-mail">Configuring
Citadel for Internet e-mail</a></li>
+
<ol>
- <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Basic_site_configuration">Basic site configuration</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Enabling_the_Internet_mail_protocols">Enabling the Internet
+
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+
<li><a href="#Basic_site_configuration">Basic site configuration</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Enabling_the_Internet_mail_protocols">Enabling the Internet
mail protocols</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Hosting_an_Internet_mailing_list">Hosting an Internet mailing
-list</a><br>
- <li><a href="#citmail">Using Citadel in conjunction with another
-MTA</a></li>
- </li>
+ <li><a href="#Hosting_an_Internet_mailing_list">Hosting an Internet
+mailing list</a><br>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#citmail">Using Citadel in conjunction with another MTA</a></li>
+
+ </ol>
+ <li><a href="#Building_or_joining_a_Citadel_network">Building or joining
+a Citadel network</a></li>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="#Overview__">Overview</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Conventions_and_etiquette_when">Conventions and etiquette
+when connecting to the public Citadel network</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Getting_ready_to_join_the_network">Getting ready to join
+the network</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Defining_neighbor_nodes">Defining neighbor nodes</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Sharing_rooms">Sharing rooms</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Sending_mail">Sending mail</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Changing_the_polling_interval">Changing the polling interval</a></li>
</ol>
-
+
</ol>
- <br>
-
+ <br>
+
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-
+
<h2 align="center"><a name="GPL"></a>GNU General Public License<br>
- </h2>
- </div>
-
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+
<p> Version 2, June 1991 </p>
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-<pre>Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br>59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA<br><br>Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies<br>of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.<br></pre>
+<pre>Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br>59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA<br><br>Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies<br>of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.<br></pre>
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+ <br>
+
<hr width="100%" size="2"><br>
-
-<div align="center">
+
+<div align="center">
<h2><a name="Installation"></a>Installation</h2>
- </div>
-
-<div align="justify">
+ </div>
+
+<div align="justify">
<h3>Overview</h3>
+
+<p>Citadel/UX is an advanced, multiuser, client/server, room-based BBS program.
+ It is designed to handle the needs of both small dialup systems and large-scale
+ Internet-connected systems. It was originally developed on an Altos system
+ running Xenix, and has been installed and tested on various Unix and Unix-like
+ platforms. The author's current development environment (and BBS) is an
+ ordinary Linux system. The current distribution includes: </p>
-<p>Citadel/UX is an advanced, multiuser, client/server, room-based BBS program.
- It is designed to handle the needs of both small dialup systems and large-scale
- Internet-connected systems. It was originally developed on an Altos system
- running Xenix, and has been installed and tested on various Unix and Unix-like
- platforms. The author's current development environment (and BBS) is
-an ordinary Linux system. The current distribution includes: </p>
-
<ul>
- <li>The Citadel/UX server (this is the back end that does all processing)
- </li>
- <li>A text-based client program designed with the traditional Citadel
- "look and feel" (room prompts, dot commands, and the like) </li>
- <li>Setup programs </li>
- <li>A set of utilities for system administration and maintenance
+ <li>The Citadel/UX server (this is the back end that does all processing)
+ </li>
+ <li>A text-based client program designed with the traditional Citadel
+ "look and feel" (room prompts, dot commands, and the like) </li>
+ <li>Setup programs </li>
+ <li>A set of utilities for system administration and maintenance
</li>
- <li>Documentation </li>
-
+ <li>Documentation </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>Some knowledge of the Unix system is necessary to install and manage the
- system. It is mandatory that the sysop have "root" access to the operating
- system. The following are required to install Citadel/UX: </p>
-
+
+<p>Some knowledge of the Unix system is necessary to install and manage the
+ system. It is mandatory that the sysop have "root" access to the operating
+ system. The following are required to install Citadel/UX: </p>
+
<ul>
- <li>A Unix operating system (Linux, BSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP/UX) </li>
- <li>C compiler (such as gcc or egcs) and "make" </li>
- <li>POSIX threads (the "pthreads" library) </li>
- <li>TCP/IP </li>
- <li><a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">Berkeley DB</a> v4.1 or newer
- (GDBM also works, but its use is officially depracated. If you are building
- a new system, do <i>not</i> use GDBM. If you have an existing system which
+ <li>A Unix operating system (Linux, BSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP/UX) </li>
+ <li>C compiler (such as gcc or egcs) and "make" </li>
+ <li>POSIX threads (the "pthreads" library) </li>
+ <li>TCP/IP </li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">Berkeley DB</a> v4.1 or newer
+ (GDBM also works, but its use is officially depracated. If you are building
+ a new system, do <i>not</i> use GDBM. If you have an existing system which
uses GDBM, you should migrate it to Berkeley DB as soon as possible.) </li>
- <li>Enough disk space to hold all of the programs and data </li>
-
+ <li>Enough disk space to hold all of the programs and data </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>If you are running Citadel/UX on a Linux system, it is STRONGLY recommended
- that you run it on a recent distribution (such as <a
- href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</a> 7.3 or newer). A new-ish distribution
- will have most or all of the prerequisite tools and libraries already
-integrated for you.</p>
-
+
+<p>If you are running Citadel/UX on a Linux system, it is STRONGLY recommended
+
that you run it on a recent distribution (such as <a
+ href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</a> 7.3 or newer). A new-ish distribution
+ will have most or all of the prerequisite tools and libraries already integrated
+ for you.</p>
+
<h3>Now available:</h3>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>"WebCit", a gateway program to allow full access to Citadel via
+ <li>"WebCit", a gateway program to allow full access to Citadel via
the World Wide Web. Interactive access through any Web browser. </li>
- <li>Access to Citadel via <i>any</i> standards-compliant e-mail program,
- thanks to Citadel's built-in SMTP, POP, and IMAP services. You can
- use Netscape/Mozilla, Evolution, Eudora, Pine, or even Microsoft VirusSpreader
+ <li>Access to Citadel via <i>any</i> standards-compliant e-mail
+program, thanks to Citadel's built-in SMTP, POP, and IMAP services. You
+can use Netscape/Mozilla, Evolution, Eudora, Pine, or even Microsoft VirusSpreader
(better known as "Outlook") with Citadel. </li>
-
+
</ul>
-
+
<h3>Coming soon:</h3>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>Newer and better GUI-based clients. </li>
-
+ <li>Newer and better GUI-based clients. </li>
+
</ul>
-
+
<h3><a name="Everything_in_its_place..."></a>Everything in its place...</h3>
-
-<p>Hopefully you've unpacked the distribution archive into its own directory.
- This is the directory in which all Citadel files are located and in which
- all activity will take place. Several subdirectories have already been
-created during the unpacking process, and others may be created by the software
-if needed. Make sure you have Berkeley DB installed on your system, and
-that you have all the development libraries and headers in place so that
-you can compile against them. If you don't, you can get the latest Berkeley
- DB at <a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">http://www.sleepycat.com</a>.
-If your operating system uses a separate library to support POSIX threads
-(pthreads), make sure that library is installed as well. This is almost
-never the case with Linux, but some commercial Unix flavors might need it.</p>
-
+
+<p>Hopefully you've unpacked the distribution archive into its own directory.
+ This is the directory in which all Citadel files are located and in which
+ all activity will take place. Several subdirectories have already been
+ created during the unpacking process, and others may be created by the
+software if needed. Make sure you have Berkeley DB installed on your system,
+and that you have all the development libraries and headers in place so
+that you can compile against them. If you don't, you can get the latest
+Berkeley DB at <a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">http://www.sleepycat.com</a>.
+ If your operating system uses a separate library to support POSIX threads
+ (pthreads), make sure that library is installed as well. This is almost
+ never the case with Linux, but some commercial Unix flavors might need
+it.</p>
+
<h3><a name="The_BBS_Login"></a></h3>
-
+
<h3>The BBS Login</h3>
-
-<p>As with many Unix programs, Citadel wants to run under its own user ID.
- Unlike other programs, however, this user ID will do double-duty as a public
- login for your system if you are running a BBS. This account is typically
- called "bbs" or "citadel" or something to that effect. You will tell Citadel
- what the user-id of that account is, and when someone logs in under that
-account, Citadel will prompt for a user name.</p>
-
-<p>The Citadel user should have a unique uid. The home directory should be
- the one your Citadel installation resides in (in this example we will use
- /usr/local/citadel) and the shell should be either "citadel" in that directory,
- or a script that will start up citadel (you may wish to set up an external
- text editor; see below). Example:</p>
-
+
+<p>As with many Unix programs, Citadel wants to run under its own user ID.
+ Unlike other programs, however, this user ID will do double-duty as a public
+ login for your system if you are running a BBS. This account is typically
+ called "bbs" or "citadel" or something to that effect. You will tell Citadel
+ what the user-id of that account is, and when someone logs in under that
+ account, Citadel will prompt for a user name.</p>
+
+<p>The Citadel user should have a unique uid. The home directory should be
+ the one your Citadel installation resides in (in this example we will use
+ /usr/local/citadel) and the shell should be either "citadel" in that directory,
+ or a script that will start up citadel (you may wish to set up an external
+ text editor; see below). Example:</p>
+
<pre>bbs::100:1:BBS Login:/usr/local/citadel:/usr/local/citadel/citadel<br></pre>
-
-<p>When you run setup later, you will be required to tell it what the Citadel
- user's numeric user ID is, so it knows what user to run as. If you create
- an account called <tt>bbs</tt>, <tt>guest</tt>, or <tt>citadel</tt>, the
- setup program will automatically pick up the user ID by default.</p>
-
-<p>For all other users in /etc/passwd, Citadel will automatically set up an
-account using the full name (or 'gecos' in Unixspeak) of the user. It'll
- also ignore any password you supply, because it uses the user's password
-on the host system. This allows a 'single sign on' type of environment. Note
- that this does have to be enabled at compile time -- it's the configure option
- called <tt>--enable-autologin</tt>. Keep in mind that these users can use
- *either* their Citadel login name or their login name on the host computer,
- and their password on the host computer.</p>
-
+
+<p>When you run setup later, you will be required to tell it what the Citadel
+ user's numeric user ID is, so it knows what user to run as. If you create
+ an account called <tt>bbs</tt>, <tt>guest</tt>, or <tt>citadel</tt>, the
+ setup program will automatically pick up the user ID by default.</p>
+
+<p>For all other users in /etc/passwd, Citadel will automatically set up
+an account using the full name (or 'gecos' in Unixspeak) of the user. It'll
+ also ignore any password you supply, because it uses the user's password
+ on the host system. This allows a 'single sign on' type of environment.
+Note that this does have to be enabled at compile time -- it's the configure
+option called <tt>--enable-autologin</tt>. Keep in mind that these users
+can use *either* their Citadel login name or their login name on the host
+computer, and their password on the host computer.</p>
+
<h3><a name="Bypassing_the_login:_prompt"></a></h3>
-
+
<h3>Bypassing the <tt>login:</tt> prompt</h3>
-
-<p>If you normally log in to your host system using some method other than
- telnet (such as ssh), you might want the telnet service to go straight
-to the Citadel BBS, instead of displaying the <tt>login:</tt> prompt first.
- You can do this by having telnetd start citadel directly instead of <tt>/bin/login</tt>.
- This is actually very simple to implement; all you need to do is make a
-simple change to your <tt>inetd</tt> or <tt>xinetd</tt> configuration. Here
+
+<p>If you normally log in to your host system using some method other than
+ telnet (such as ssh), you might want the telnet service to go straight to
+ the Citadel BBS, instead of displaying the <tt>login:</tt> prompt first.
+ You can do this by having telnetd start citadel directly instead of <tt>/bin/login</tt>.
+ This is actually very simple to implement; all you need to do is make a
+simple change to your <tt>inetd</tt> or <tt>xinetd</tt> configuration. Here
are some configuration examples.</p>
-
-<p>An example for <tt>inetd</tt> (put the following line in <tt>/etc/inetd.conf</tt>,
+
+<p>An example for <tt>inetd</tt> (put the following line in <tt>/etc/inetd.conf</tt>,
replacing any existing telnet configuration line already there):</p>
-
+
<pre>telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -L /usr/local/citadel/citadel<br></pre>
-
-<p>An example for <tt>xinetd</tt> (if you have a file called <tt>/etc/xinetd.d/telnet</tt>
+
+<p>An example for <tt>xinetd</tt> (if you have a file called <tt>/etc/xinetd.d/telnet</tt>
then simply replace that file with this one):</p>
-
+
<pre>service telnet<br>{<br> flags = REUSE<br> socket_type = stream<br> wait = no<br> user = root<br> server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd<br> server_args = -L /usr/local/citadel/citadel<br> log_on_failure += USERID<br> disable = no<br>}<br></pre>
-
-<p>Please make sure you know what you're doing before you install this!
-If you are going to put Citadel somewhere other than <tt>/usr/local/citadel</tt>
- then change the directory name accordingly. If you know of any other local
- peculiarities which need to be observed, edit the above configuration accordingly
- as well. And, of course, if you're working remotely, make sure you can successfully
- log in using SSH before you start changing your telnet configuration, otherwise
- you could lock yourself out of your system (ask any networking specialist
- about the dangers of "working inline" -- then pull up a chair and get a
-fresh cup of coffee, because you're going to hear some war stories).</p>
-
+
+<p>Please make sure you know what you're doing before you install this! If
+you are going to put Citadel somewhere other than <tt>/usr/local/citadel</tt>
+ then change the directory name accordingly. If you know of any other local
+ peculiarities which need to be observed, edit the above configuration accordingly
+ as well. And, of course, if you're working remotely, make sure you can
+successfully log in using SSH before you start changing your telnet configuration,
+otherwise you could lock yourself out of your system (ask any networking
+specialist about the dangers of "working inline" -- then pull up a chair
+and get a fresh cup of coffee, because you're going to hear some war stories).</p>
+
<h3><a name="Compiling_the_programs"></a>Compiling the programs</h3>
-
+
<p>You can easily compile the Citadel system with the following commands:</p>
-
+
<pre>./configure<br>make<br>make install<br></pre>
-
-<p>The 'configure' script will generate a Makefile from the Makefile.in, and
-it will also write the file "sysdep.h" to your Citadel directory. Please
- do not edit sysdep.h or Makefile.in yourself. The configure script will
-figure out your system dependencies and set everything correctly.</p>
-
-<p>Mac OS X 10.1 and later are now supported. (Sorry, 10.0 cannot be supported,
- now or in the future.) You need to install the Developer Tools CD, which
+
+<p>The 'configure' script will generate a Makefile from the Makefile.in,
+and it will also write the file "sysdep.h" to your Citadel directory. Please
+ do not edit sysdep.h or Makefile.in yourself. The configure script will
+ figure out your system dependencies and set everything correctly.</p>
+
+<p>Mac OS X 10.1 and later are now supported. (Sorry, 10.0 cannot be supported,
+ now or in the future.) You need to install the Developer Tools CD, which
you can purchase or download for free from <a
- href="http://developer.apple.com">http://developer.apple.com</a>. Then run
- configure like this:</p>
-
+ href="http://developer.apple.com">http://developer.apple.com</a>. Then run
+ configure like this:</p>
+
<pre>env CC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure (options - see below)<br></pre>
-
-<p>By default, the Citadel system will install in <tt>/usr/local/citadel</tt>.
- If you wish to place it in a different directory, you can instead do:</p>
+<p>By default, the Citadel system will install in <tt>/usr/local/citadel</tt>.
+ If you wish to place it in a different directory, you can instead do:</p>
+
<pre>./configure --prefix=/export/home/citadel (or whatever)<br></pre>
-
-<p>If you've got Berkeley DB installed in a non-standard location, you can
+
+<p>If you've got Berkeley DB installed in a non-standard location, you can
help the configure script find it by doing something like this:</p>
-
+
<pre>./configure --with-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB-4.1<br></pre>
-
-<p>The configure script prefers Berkeley DB if it is available, but will
-fall back to GDBM if it has to.</p>
-
-<p>File permissions are always a bother to work with. You don't want Citadel
- to crash because someone couldn't access a file, but you also don't want
- shell users peeking into the binaries to do things like reading others'
- mail, finding private rooms, etc. The Citadel server needs to be started
- as root in order to bind to privileged ports, but as soon as its initialization
-is finished, it changes its user ID to your BBS user ID in order to avoid
-security holes.</p>
-
+
+<p>The configure script prefers Berkeley DB if it is available, but will fall
+back to GDBM if it has to.</p>
+
+<p>File permissions are always a bother to work with. You don't want Citadel
+ to crash because someone couldn't access a file, but you also don't want
+ shell users peeking into the binaries to do things like reading others'
+mail, finding private rooms, etc. The Citadel server needs to be started
+ as root in order to bind to privileged ports, but as soon as its initialization
+ is finished, it changes its user ID to your BBS user ID in order to avoid
+ security holes.</p>
+
<h3><a name="Upgrading"></a></h3>
-
+
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
-
-<p>Any existing Citadel installation which is at version 5.50 or newer may
-be upgraded in place without the need to discard your existing data files.</p>
-
-<p>Upgrading to a new version uses the same build procedure as compiling the
-program for a fresh install, except that you want to do <tt>make install-exec</tt>
- instead of <tt>make install</tt>. This will overwrite the programs but
-not your data. <b>Be sure to shut down citserver during this process!</b>
+
+<p>Any existing Citadel installation which is at version 5.50 or newer may
+ be upgraded in place without the need to discard your existing data files.</p>
+
+<p>Upgrading to a new version uses the same build procedure as compiling
+the program for a fresh install, except that you want to do <tt>make install-exec</tt>
+ instead of <tt>make install</tt>. This will overwrite the programs but
+not your data. <b>Be sure to shut down citserver during this process!</b>
If Citadel is running while you upgrade, you may face data corruption issues.<br>
- </p>
-
-<p>After doing <tt>make install-exec</tt>, you should run <tt>setup</tt> again
-to bring your data files up to date. Please see the setup section below
-for more information on this.</p>
+ </p>
-<h3><a name="The_citadel.rc_file"></a>The <tt>citadel.rc</tt> file</h3>
+<p>After doing <tt>make install-exec</tt>, you should run <tt>setup</tt>
+again to bring your data files up to date. Please see the setup section
+below for more information on this.</p>
-<p>The text-based client included with Citadel is suitable for BBS applications.
- Much of its command set and other behavior is configurable through a Run
- Control (RC) file. The standard client looks for this file in the following
+<h3><a name="The_citadel.rc_file"></a>The <tt>citadel.rc</tt> file</h3>
+
+<p>The text-based client included with Citadel is suitable for BBS applications.
+ Much of its command set and other behavior is configurable through a Run
+ Control (RC) file. The standard client looks for this file in the following
locations: </p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><tt>$HOME/.citadelrc</tt></li>
- <li><tt>/usr/local/lib/citadel.rc</tt></li>
- <li><i>your-Citadel-directory</i><tt>/citadel.rc</tt></li>
+<ul>
+ <li><tt>$HOME/.citadelrc</tt></li>
+ <li><tt>/usr/local/lib/citadel.rc</tt></li>
+ <li><i>your-Citadel-directory</i><tt>/citadel.rc</tt></li>
+
</ul>
- The next couple of sections deal with client-side configuration.
-
-<h3><a name="Using_an_external_editor_for_message"></a>Using an external
-editor for message composition</h3>
-
-<p>Citadel/UX has a built-in message editor. However, you can also use your
- favorite text editor to write messages. To do this you simply put a line
+ The next couple of sections deal with client-side configuration.
+
+<h3><a name="Using_an_external_editor_for_message"></a>Using an external editor
+for message composition</h3>
+
+<p>Citadel/UX has a built-in message editor. However, you can also use your
+ favorite text editor to write messages. To do this you simply put a line
in your citadel.rc file like this:</p>
-
+
<pre>editor=/usr/bin/vi<br></pre>
-
-<p>The above example would make Citadel call the vi editor when using the
- <tt><b>.E</b>nter <b>E</b>ditor</tt> command. You can also make it the default
- editor for the <tt><b>E</b>nter</tt> command by editing the <tt>citadel.rc</tt>
- file. <b>But be warned:</b> external editors on public systems can be a
-security hole, because they usually provide users with the ability to drop
-into a shell on the host system, or save files using names other than the
-name of the temporary file they are editing. If you intend to use an external
-editor on a public BBS, make sure you use one that has been hardened for such
-a purpose -- one which has had the 'shell' and 'save as' commands disabled,
- as well as any other functions which a destructive user could use to gain
- unauthorized access to your host system.</p>
+<p>The above example would make Citadel call the vi editor when using the
+ <tt><b>.E</b>nter <b>E</b>ditor</tt> command. You can also make it the default
+ editor for the <tt><b>E</b>nter</tt> command by editing the <tt>citadel.rc</tt>
+ file. <b>But be warned:</b> external editors on public systems can be
+a security hole, because they usually provide users with the ability to
+drop into a shell on the host system, or save files using names other than
+the name of the temporary file they are editing. If you intend to use an
+external editor on a public BBS, make sure you use one that has been hardened
+for such a purpose -- one which has had the 'shell' and 'save as' commands
+disabled, as well as any other functions which a destructive user could
+use to gain unauthorized access to your host system.</p>
+
<h3><a name="Printing_messages"></a>Printing messages</h3>
-
-<p>Citadel/UX can send messages to a printer, or just about anywhere else
- in your system. The variable <tt>PRINTCMD</tt> in <tt>citadel.rc</tt> specifies
- what command you use to print. Text is sent to the standard input (stdin)
+
+<p>Citadel/UX can send messages to a printer, or just about anywhere else
+ in your system. The variable <tt>PRINTCMD</tt> in <tt>citadel.rc</tt> specifies
+ what command you use to print. Text is sent to the standard input (stdin)
of the print command.</p>
-
+
<p>So if you did this:</p>
-
+
<pre>printcmd="nl|pr|lpr -Plocal"<br></pre>
-
-<p>...that would add line numbers, then paginate, then print on the printer
- named "local". There's tons of stuff you can do with this feature. For
-example, you could use a command like <tt>cat <<$HOME/archive</tt>
-to save copies of important messages in a textfile. Again, this is probably
- something you don't want to configure for a public BBS host -- most system
- administrators don't want remote users sending arbitrary things to local
+
+<p>...that would add line numbers, then paginate, then print on the printer
+ named "local". There's tons of stuff you can do with this feature. For
+example, you could use a command like <tt>cat <<$HOME/archive</tt> to
+save copies of important messages in a textfile. Again, this is probably
+ something you don't want to configure for a public BBS host -- most system
+ administrators don't want remote users sending arbitrary things to local
printers.</p>
-
+
<h3><a name="URL_viewing"></a>URL viewing</h3>
-
-<p>This is one more feature which is appropriate for local users. While
-reading a message that has Internet URL's in it, you can select the <tt><b>U</b>RL-view</tt>
- command, and it will perform some pre-defined action (usually, this is to
+
+<p>This is one more feature which is appropriate for local users. While reading
+a message that has Internet URL's in it, you can select the <tt><b>U</b>RL-view</tt>
+ command, and it will perform some pre-defined action (usually, this is to
open up the URL in a web browser). For example:</p>
-
+
<pre>urlcmd=netscape -remote "openURL(%s)"<br></pre>
-
+
<p>In the above example, it would open up the URL in an open <a
href="http://www.netscape.com/download">Netscape</a> window.</p>
-
+
<h3><a name="Setup_and_login"></a></h3>
-
+
<h3>Setup and login</h3>
-
-<p>Before logging in for the first time, you must run the setup program.
- To begin this procedure, enter the following commands:</p>
-
+
+<p>Before logging in for the first time, you must run the setup program.
+To begin this procedure, enter the following commands:</p>
+
<pre>cd /usr/local/citadel<br>./setup<br></pre>
-
-<p>The setup program will guide you through a simple configuration procedure.
- It will ask you what directory to place your data files in -- the default
- is the current directory, which is usually the sensible thing to select.
- If you want to run more than one instance of Citadel on the same host, however,
- you can specify a different directory here -- just remember to specify the
+
+<p>The setup program will guide you through a simple configuration procedure.
+ It will ask you what directory to place your data files in -- the default
+ is the current directory, which is usually the sensible thing to select.
+ If you want to run more than one instance of Citadel on the same host, however,
+ you can specify a different directory here -- just remember to specify the
directory name again when you start up the server later on.</p>
-
-<p><tt>setup</tt> will then shut down the Citadel service if it is found
-to be running.</p>
-
-<p>You will then be prompted for the name of the system administrator. This
- is not merely a cosmetic option -- when you log in to your system a little
- while from now, you'll log in with this name, and it will automatically
-assign your account the highest access level.</p>
-
-<p>Next, you will be prompted for the User ID of the Citadel account on your
- host system. If you have an account called <tt>bbs</tt>, <tt>guest</tt>,
- or <tt>citadel</tt>, that account's UID will be the default. If you are
-upgrading or reconfiguring an existing system, the existing value will be
-preserved.</p>
-
-<p>Then you will be prompted for a server port number. This is the TCP port
- which Citadel clients use to connect to your Citadel server. In almost
-all cases, you want to use the default -- port 504, which is the official
-port number assigned by the IANA for Citadel implementations.</p>
-
-<p>The Citadel service will then be started, and you will see the following
+
+<p><tt>setup</tt> will then shut down the Citadel service if it is found to
+be running.</p>
+
+<p>You will then be prompted for the name of the system administrator. This
+ is not merely a cosmetic option -- when you log in to your system a little
+ while from now, you'll log in with this name, and it will automatically assign
+ your account the highest access level.</p>
+
+<p>Next, you will be prompted for the User ID of the Citadel account on your
+ host system. If you have an account called <tt>bbs</tt>, <tt>guest</tt>,
+ or <tt>citadel</tt>, that account's UID will be the default. If you are
+ upgrading or reconfiguring an existing system, the existing value will be
+ preserved.</p>
+
+<p>Then you will be prompted for a server port number. This is the TCP port
+ which Citadel clients use to connect to your Citadel server. In almost all
+ cases, you want to use the default -- port 504, which is the official port
+ number assigned by the IANA for Citadel implementations.</p>
+
+<p>The Citadel service will then be started, and you will see the following
message:</p>
-
+
<pre>Setup is finished. You may now log in.<br></pre>
-
-<p>Setup is now complete, on most systems, anyway. Please see below to find
+
+<p>Setup is now complete, on most systems, anyway. Please see below to find
out if you need to do anything else:</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Configuring_your_host_system_to_start"></a>Configuring your
-host system to start the service</h3>
-
-<p><b>Please note:</b> this topic involves modifications made to <tt>/etc/services</tt>
- and <tt>/etc/inittab</tt> in order to configure your host system to automatically
- start the Citadel service. <tt>setup</tt> will automatically perform these
- steps if it can, and if you allow it to -- just answer 'Yes' when prompted,
- and everything will be taken care of for you. If you answer 'No' -- or
-if your system is a little bit odd (for example, BSD systems don't have
-<tt>/etc/inittab</tt>) -- read this section and do what you need to in order
-to get things configured.</p>
-
-<p>Before you can use Citadel, you must define the "citadel" service to your
- system. This is accomplished by adding a line to your /etc/services file
+
+<h3><a name="Configuring_your_host_system_to_start"></a>Configuring your host
+system to start the service</h3>
+
+<p><b>Please note:</b> this topic involves modifications made to <tt>/etc/services</tt>
+ and <tt>/etc/inittab</tt> in order to configure your host system to automatically
+ start the Citadel service. <tt>setup</tt> will automatically perform these
+ steps if it can, and if you allow it to -- just answer 'Yes' when prompted,
+ and everything will be taken care of for you. If you answer 'No' -- or if
+ your system is a little bit odd (for example, BSD systems don't have <tt>/etc/inittab</tt>)
+ -- read this section and do what you need to in order to get things configured.</p>
+
+<p>Before you can use Citadel, you must define the "citadel" service to your
+ system. This is accomplished by adding a line to your /etc/services file
that looks something like this:</p>
-
+
<pre>citadel 504/tcp # Citadel/UX Server<br></pre>
-
-<p>504 is the port number officially designated by the IANA for use by Citadel.
- There should not be any need to use a different port number, unless you
-are running multiple Citadels on the same computer and therefore need a
-different port for each one.</p>
-
-<p>The next step is to arrange for the server to start. The <tt>citserver</tt>
- program is the main Citadel server. Before we cover the recommended method
- of starting the server, let's examine its usage options:</p>
-
+
+<p>504 is the port number officially designated by the IANA for use by Citadel.
+ There should not be any need to use a different port number, unless you
+are running multiple Citadels on the same computer and therefore need a different
+port for each one.</p>
+
+<p>The next step is to arrange for the server to start. The <tt>citserver</tt>
+ program is the main Citadel server. Before we cover the recommended method
+ of starting the server, let's examine its usage options:</p>
+
<pre>citserver [-hHomeDir] [-xDebugLevel] [-tTraceFile] [-d] [-f]<br></pre>
-
+
<p>The options are as follows:</p>
-
-<p><tt>-hHomeDir</tt> - the directory your BBS data files live in. This
-should, of course, be a directory that you've run the <tt>setup</tt> program
-against to set up some data files. If a directory is not specified, the
-directory name which was specified in the <tt>Makefile</tt> will be used.</p>
-
-<p><tt>-xDebugLevel</tt> - Set the verbosity of trace messages printed.
-The available debugging levels are: </p>
-
+
+<p><tt>-hHomeDir</tt> - the directory your BBS data files live in. This should,
+of course, be a directory that you've run the <tt>setup</tt> program against
+to set up some data files. If a directory is not specified, the directory
+name which was specified in the <tt>Makefile</tt> will be used.</p>
+
+<p><tt>-xDebugLevel</tt> - Set the verbosity of trace messages printed. The
+available debugging levels are: </p>
+
<ul>
- <li>1 - Internal errors (failed thread creation, malloc problems, etc.)
+ <li>1 - Internal errors (failed thread creation, malloc problems, etc.)
</li>
- <li>2 - Network errors (broken sockets, failed socket creation)
- </li>
- <li>3 - Begin and end of sessions, startup/shutdown of server </li>
- <li>5 - Server commands being sent from clients </li>
- <li>7 - Entry and exit of various functions </li>
- <li>8 - Entry and exit of critical sections </li>
- <li>9 - Various debugging checkpoints (insanely verbose) </li>
-
+ <li>2 - Network errors (broken sockets, failed socket creation)
+ </li>
+ <li>3 - Begin and end of sessions, startup/shutdown of server </li>
+ <li>5 - Server commands being sent from clients </li>
+ <li>7 - Entry and exit of various functions </li>
+ <li>8 - Entry and exit of critical sections </li>
+ <li>9 - Various debugging checkpoints (insanely verbose) </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p><tt>-tTraceFile</tt> - Tell the server where to send its debug/trace output.
+
+<p><tt>-tTraceFile</tt> - Tell the server where to send its debug/trace output.
Normally it is sent to stdout.</p>
-
-<p><tt>-d</tt> - Run as a daemon; i.e. in the background. This switch would
- be necessary if you were starting the Citadel server, for example, from
-an rc.local script (which is not recommended, because this won't allow the
+
+<p><tt>-d</tt> - Run as a daemon; i.e. in the background. This switch would
+ be necessary if you were starting the Citadel server, for example, from
+an rc.local script (which is not recommended, because this won't allow the
server to automatically restart when it is shut down).</p>
-
-<p><tt>-f</tt> - Defragment all the databases upon startup. This isn't normally
- necessary due to the nature of the data stored in Citadel, but the option
- is provided in case you need it. (Note that this only applies to GDBM installations;
+
+<p><tt>-f</tt> - Defragment all the databases upon startup. This isn't normally
+ necessary due to the nature of the data stored in Citadel, but the option
+ is provided in case you need it. (Note that this only applies to GDBM installations;
if you are using Berkeley DB it has no effect.)</p>
-
-<p>The preferred method of starting the Citadel server is to place an entry
- in your /etc/inittab file. This will conveniently bring the server up when
- your system is up, and terminate it gracefully when your system is shutting
- down. The exact syntax for your system may vary, but here's an entry that
+
+<p>The preferred method of starting the Citadel server is to place an entry
+ in your /etc/inittab file. This will conveniently bring the server up when
+ your system is up, and terminate it gracefully when your system is shutting
+ down. The exact syntax for your system may vary, but here's an entry that
could be used on a Linux system:</p>
-
+
<pre>cit:2345:respawn:/usr/local/citadel/citserver -h/usr/local/citadel -t/dev/tty9 -x3<br></pre>
-
-<p>In this example, we've chosen debugging level 3, and have the trace stuff
- output to one of the virtual consoles. It's important to remember to turn
- off any getty that is set up on that virtual console, if you do this. After
- making this change, the command <tt>init q</tt> works on most systems to
+
+<p>In this example, we've chosen debugging level 3, and have the trace stuff
+ output to one of the virtual consoles. It's important to remember to turn
+ off any getty that is set up on that virtual console, if you do this. After
+ making this change, the command <tt>init q</tt> works on most systems to
tell init to re-read the file. If in doubt, just reboot the computer.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Logging_in_for_the_first_time"></a>Logging in for the first
-time</h3>
-
-<p>At this point, your system is ready to run. Run the <tt>citadel</tt> program
- from the shell and log in as a new user. NOTE: the first user account to
- be created will automatically be set to access level 6 (Aide). This overcomes
- some obvious logistical problems - normally, Aide access is given by another
- Aide, but since there aren't any on your system yet, this isn't possible.</p>
-
+
+<h3><a name="Logging_in_for_the_first_time"></a>Logging in for the first time</h3>
+
+<p>At this point, your system is ready to run. Run the <tt>citadel</tt> program
+ from the shell and log in as a new user. NOTE: the first user account to
+ be created will automatically be set to access level 6 (Aide). This overcomes
+ some obvious logistical problems - normally, Aide access is given by another
+ Aide, but since there aren't any on your system yet, this isn't possible.</p>
+
<h3><a name="Welcoming_new_users"></a>Welcoming new users</h3>
-
-<p>Sometimes you might decide that you want a welcome message (or several
- different messages) automatically mailed to new users upon their first login.
- Now there is a way to do this. If you create a room called <tt>New User
-Greetings</tt>, and it is a <i>private</i> room (invitation-only probably
- makes the most sense), any messages you enter into that room will automatically
+
+<p>Sometimes you might decide that you want a welcome message (or several
+ different messages) automatically mailed to new users upon their first login.
+ Now there is a way to do this. If you create a room called <tt>New User
+Greetings</tt>, and it is a <i>private</i> room (invitation-only probably
+ makes the most sense), any messages you enter into that room will automatically
be delivered to all new users upon registration.</p>
-
-<p>You can put anything you want there: a welcome message, system policies,
- special information, etc. You can also put as many messages there as you
- want to (although it really doesn't make sense to clutter new users' mailboxes
+
+<p>You can put anything you want there: a welcome message, system policies,
+ special information, etc. You can also put as many messages there as you
+ want to (although it really doesn't make sense to clutter new users' mailboxes
with lots of junk).</p>
-
-<p>Don't worry about wasting disk space, either. Citadel has a single-instance
- message store, so all the new users are actually looking at the same copy
- of the message on disk.</p>
-<h3><a name="Space_for_adding_your_own_client"></a>Space for adding your
-own client features (doors)</h3>
-
-<p><b>Please take note!</b> This function really represents the "old" way
- of doing things, and it doesn't fit in well with the client/server paradigm.
+<p>Don't worry about wasting disk space, either. Citadel has a single-instance
+ message store, so all the new users are actually looking at the same copy
+ of the message on disk.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Space_for_adding_your_own_client"></a>Space for adding your own
+client features (doors)</h3>
+
+<p><b>Please take note!</b> This function really represents the "old" way
+ of doing things, and it doesn't fit in well with the client/server paradigm.
Please consider it "deprecated" because it may be removed someday.</p>
-
-<p>The "doorway" feature is just a generic way to add features to the system.
- I called it "Doorway" to make it resemble the doors on non-Unix boards,
-but as we all know, us Unix types don't have to write special code to access
-the modem. :-) Anyway, when a user hits the <tt><b>*</b></tt> (doorway)
-command, Citadel does...</p>
-
+
+<p>The "doorway" feature is just a generic way to add features to the system.
+ I called it "Doorway" to make it resemble the doors on non-Unix boards, but
+ as we all know, us Unix types don't have to write special code to access
+the modem. :-) Anyway, when a user hits the <tt><b>*</b></tt> (doorway) command,
+Citadel does...</p>
+
<pre>USERNAME=(username); export USERNAME<br>./subsystem (user-number) (screen-width) (access level)<br></pre>
-
-<p>...so you can put whatever you want in there. I suggest putting in a
-menu program to allow the users to pick one of a number of programs, etc.
- Do be aware that door programs will only be available when the client and
-server programs are running on the <i>same</i> computer, and when the user
-is running the text-mode client. Because of these restrictions, Door programs
-are being utilized less and less every day.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Troubleshooting_and_getting_help"></a>Troubleshooting and getting
+
+<p>...so you can put whatever you want in there. I suggest putting in a menu
+program to allow the users to pick one of a number of programs, etc. Do
+be aware that door programs will only be available when the client and server
+programs are running on the <i>same</i> computer, and when the user is running
+the text-mode client. Because of these restrictions, Door programs are being
+utilized less and less every day.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Troubleshooting_and_getting_help"></a>Troubleshooting and getting
help</h3>
-
-<p>That's just about all the information you need to install the system.
- But if you get stuck, you can visit UNCENSORED! BBS and report a problem
-or ask for help. But if you intend to report a problem getting the Citadel
-server to run, <i>please</i> double-check the following things first: </p>
-
+
+<p>That's just about all the information you need to install the system.
+But if you get stuck, you can visit UNCENSORED! BBS and report a problem or
+ask for help. But if you intend to report a problem getting the Citadel server
+to run, <i>please</i> double-check the following things first: </p>
+
<ul>
- <li>Did you do <tt>./configure && make && make install</tt>
- ?? </li>
- <li>Did you run setup? </li>
- <li>Did you start the server? </li>
-
+ <li>Did you do <tt>./configure && make && make install</tt>
+ ?? </li>
+ <li>Did you run setup? </li>
+ <li>Did you start the server? </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>To report a problem, you can log on to UNCENSORED! or any other BBS on
- the Citadel network which carries the <tt>Citadel/UX></tt> room. Please
- DO NOT e-mail the developers directly. Post a request for help on the BBS,
+
+<p>To report a problem, you can log on to UNCENSORED! or any other BBS on
+ the Citadel network which carries the <tt>Citadel/UX></tt> room. Please
+ DO NOT e-mail the developers directly. Post a request for help on the BBS,
with all of the following information: </p>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>The exact nature of your difficulty </li>
- <li>A transcript of the error message(s) if possible </li>
- <li>The version of Citadel you are running </li>
- <li>The version of Berkeley DB present on your system </li>
- <li>Which operating system you are running, and what version </li>
- <li>If you are running a Linux system, we need to know which distribution,
- and the version of the kernel, libc, and pthreads you are using (it would
- help to post the output of a <tt>ldd ./citserver</tt> command). </li>
-
-</ul>
- </div>
+ <li>The exact nature of your difficulty </li>
+ <li>A transcript of the error message(s) if possible </li>
+ <li>The version of Citadel you are running </li>
+ <li>The version of Berkeley DB present on your system </li>
+ <li>Which operating system you are running, and what version </li>
+ <li>If you are running a Linux system, we need to know which distribution,
+ and the version of the kernel, libc, and pthreads you are using (it would
+ help to post the output of a <tt>ldd ./citserver</tt> command). </li>
-<div align="center">
-<hr width="100%" size="2">
+</ul>
+ </div>
+
+<div align="center">
+<hr width="100%" size="2">
<h2><a name="sysop"></a>System Administration</h2>
- </div>
-
-<div align="justify">
+ </div>
+
+<div align="justify">
<h3><a name="Overview_"></a>Overview</h3>
-
-<p>Citadel/UX, when installed properly, will do most of its maintenance by
- itself. It is intended to be run unattended for extended periods of time,
+
+<p>Citadel/UX, when installed properly, will do most of its maintenance by
+ itself. It is intended to be run unattended for extended periods of time,
and most installations do just that without any software failures.</p>
-
-<p>The system has seven access levels. Most users are at the bottom and
-have no special privileges. Aides are selected people who have special access
-within the Citadel program. Room Aides only have this access in a certain
-room. Preferred users can be selected by Aides for access to preferred only
-rooms. A sysop is anyone who has access to the various sysop utilities -
-these are in their own executable files, which should have their permissions
-set to allow only sysops to run them. You should either create a sysops
-group in /etc/group, or use some other existing group for this purpose.</p>
-
-<p>Aides have access to EVERY room on the system, public and private (all
- types). They also have access to commands starting with <tt>.<b>A</b>ide</tt>
- in addition to being able to delete and move messages. The system room,
-<tt>Aide></tt>, is accessible only by those users designated as Aides.</p>
-<h3><a name="Aide_commands"></a>Aide commands</h3>
+<p>The system has seven access levels. Most users are at the bottom and have
+no special privileges. Aides are selected people who have special access within
+the Citadel program. Room Aides only have this access in a certain room.
+ Preferred users can be selected by Aides for access to preferred only rooms.
+ A sysop is anyone who has access to the various sysop utilities - these
+are in their own executable files, which should have their permissions set
+to allow only sysops to run them. You should either create a sysops group
+in /etc/group, or use some other existing group for this purpose.</p>
+
+<p>Aides have access to EVERY room on the system, public and private (all
+ types). They also have access to commands starting with <tt>.<b>A</b>ide</tt>
+ in addition to being able to delete and move messages. The system room,
+ <tt>Aide></tt>, is accessible only by those users designated as Aides.</p>
-<p>Aides have the following commands available to them that are not available
- to normal users. They are:</p>
-
+<h3><a name="Aide_commands"></a>Aide commands</h3>
+
+<p>Aides have the following commands available to them that are not available
+ to normal users. They are:</p>
+
<table>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>K</b>ill this room </tt></td>
- <td> Deletes the current room from the system. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit this room </tt></td>
- <td> Allows editing of the properties of the current room. This
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>K</b>ill this room </tt></td>
+ <td> Deletes the current room from the system. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit this room </tt></td>
+ <td> Allows editing of the properties of the current room. This
is explained in greater detail below. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>W</b>ho knows room </tt></td>
- <td> For private rooms with access controls, or mailbox rooms, this
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>W</b>ho knows room </tt></td>
+ <td> For private rooms with access controls, or mailbox rooms, this
command displays a list of users who have access to the current room. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide edit <b>U</b>ser </tt></td>
- <td> Allows editing of the properties of any user account on the
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide edit <b>U</b>ser </tt></td>
+ <td> Allows editing of the properties of any user account on the
system. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>V</b>alidate new users </tt></td>
- <td> For public access systems, this command reviews all new user
-registrations and allows you to set each new user's access level (or simply
-delete the accounts). </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide enter <b>I</b>nfo file </tt></td>
- <td> Each room may contain a short textual description of its purpose,
- which is displayed to users upon entering the room for the first time (or
- in the room banner, for users of the Web client). This command allows you
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>V</b>alidate new users </tt></td>
+ <td> For public access systems, this command reviews all new user
+ registrations and allows you to set each new user's access level (or simply
+ delete the accounts). </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide enter <b>I</b>nfo file </tt></td>
+ <td> Each room may contain a short textual description of its purpose,
+ which is displayed to users upon entering the room for the first time (or
+ in the room banner, for users of the Web client). This command allows you
to enter or edit that description. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>R</b>oom <b>I</b>nvite user
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>R</b>oom <b>I</b>nvite user
</tt></td>
- <td> Access control command to grant any specific user access to
+ <td> Access control command to grant any specific user access to
a private room. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>R</b>oom <b>K</b>ick out user
- </tt></td>
- <td> Access control command to revoke any specifc user's access to
- the current room. This works regardless of whether the room is public or
- private. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>D</b>elete </tt></td>
- <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this command
- may be used to delete files from it. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>S</b>end over net
- </tt></td>
- <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this command
- may be used to transmit a copy of any file in that directory to another
-node on a Citadel network. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>M</b>ove </tt></td>
- <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this command
- may be used to move any file in that directory to another room. The target
- room must also have an associated file directory. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>M</b>essage edit </tt></td>
- <td> This command allows editing of any of the various system banners
- and messages which are displayed to users. Type the name of the banner
-or message you wish to edit. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>P</b>ost </tt></td>
- <td> This is the functional equivalent of the <tt><b>E</b>nter message</tt>
- command available to all users, except that it allows you to post using
-any user name. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>R</b>oom <b>K</b>ick out user
</tt></td>
- <td> This command allows configuration of a large number of global
- settings for your Citadel system. These settings will be explained in greater
- detail below. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>I</b>nternet
+ <td> Access control command to revoke any specifc user's access
+to the current room. This works regardless of whether the room is public
+or private. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>D</b>elete </tt></td>
+ <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this
+command may be used to delete files from it. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>S</b>end over net
</tt></td>
- <td> This command allows configuration of settings which affect how
- your Citadel system sends and receives messages on the Internet. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration check
+ <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this
+command may be used to transmit a copy of any file in that directory to
+another node on a Citadel network. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>F</b>ile <b>M</b>ove </tt></td>
+ <td> If the current room has an associated file directory, this
+command may be used to move any file in that directory to another room.
+ The target room must also have an associated file directory. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>M</b>essage edit </tt></td>
+ <td> This command allows editing of any of the various system banners
+ and messages which are displayed to users. Type the name of the banner or
+ message you wish to edit. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>P</b>ost </tt></td>
+ <td> This is the functional equivalent of the <tt><b>E</b>nter message</tt>
+ command available to all users, except that it allows you to post using any
+ user name. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> This command allows configuration of a large number of global
+ settings for your Citadel system. These settings will be explained in greater
+ detail below. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>I</b>nternet
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> This command allows configuration of settings which affect
+how your Citadel system sends and receives messages on the Internet. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration check
<b>M</b>essage base </tt></td>
- <td> Perform a consistency check on your message store. This is
-a very time-consuming operation which should not be performed unless you
+ <td> Perform a consistency check on your message store. This is
+a very time-consuming operation which should not be performed unless you
have reason to believe there is trouble with your database. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>N</b>etwork
- </tt></td>
- <td> Configure networking (e-mail, room sharing, etc.) with other
-Citadel nodes. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration network
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>N</b>etwork
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> Configure networking (e-mail, room sharing, etc.) with other
+ Citadel nodes. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration network
<b>F</b>ilter list </tt></td>
- <td> If you are on a large public or semi-public network of Citadel
- nodes and you find content from certain systems or individuals objectionable,
- you can use this command to define a rule set to automatically reject those
+ <td> If you are on a large public or semi-public network of Citadel
+ nodes and you find content from certain systems or individuals objectionable,
+ you can use this command to define a rule set to automatically reject those
messages when they arrive on your system. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>T</b>erminate server <b>N</b>ow
- </tt></td>
- <td> Immediately shut down the Citadel service, disconnecting any
-users who are logged in. Please keep in mind that it will start right back
-up again if you are running the service from <tt>/etc/inittab</tt>, so in
-practice this command will probably not get much use. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>T</b>erminate server <b>S</b>cheduled
- </tt></td>
- <td> Shut down the Citadel service the next time there are zero users
- connected. This allows you to automatically wait until all users are logged
- out. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide mailing <b>L</b>ist recipients
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>T</b>erminate server <b>N</b>ow
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> Immediately shut down the Citadel service, disconnecting any
+ users who are logged in. Please keep in mind that it will start right back
+ up again if you are running the service from <tt>/etc/inittab</tt>, so in
+ practice this command will probably not get much use. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>T</b>erminate server <b>S</b>cheduled
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> Shut down the Citadel service the next time there are zero
+users connected. This allows you to automatically wait until all users are
+logged out. </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide mailing <b>L</b>ist recipients
</tt></td>
- <td> Any room may be made into a mailing list. Enter this command
- to open an editor window containing the list of Internet e-mail addresses
+ <td> Any room may be made into a mailing list. Enter this command
+ to open an editor window containing the list of Internet e-mail addresses
to which every message posted in the room will be sent. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide mailing list <b>D</b>igest recipients
- </tt></td>
- <td> Similar to the regular mailing list command, except the messages
- will be sent out in 'digest' form -- recipients will see messages from the
- address of the room itself rather than the address of the author of each
-message, and a digest may contain more than one message. Each room may have
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide mailing list <b>D</b>igest recipients
+ </tt></td>
+ <td> Similar to the regular mailing list command, except the messages
+ will be sent out in 'digest' form -- recipients will see messages from the
+ address of the room itself rather than the address of the author of each
+message, and a digest may contain more than one message. Each room may have
any combination of List and Digest recipients. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>N</b>etwork room sharing </tt></td>
- <td> Configures the sharing of the current room's contents with other
- Citadel nodes. Messages posted in this room on any Citadel system will
-automatically be replicated to other Citadel systems carrying the room.
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="30%"><tt> .<b>A</b>ide <b>N</b>etwork room sharing </tt></td>
+ <td> Configures the sharing of the current room's contents with
+other Citadel nodes. Messages posted in this room on any Citadel system
+will automatically be replicated to other Citadel systems carrying the room.
</td>
- </tr>
-
- </tbody>
+ </tr>
+
+ </tbody>
</table>
-
+
<h3><a name="Editing_rooms"></a>Editing rooms</h3>
+
+<p>This command allows any aide to change the parameters of a room. Go to
+ the room you wish to edit and enter the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit room</tt>
+ command. A series of prompts will be displayed. The existing parameters
+ will be displayed in brackets; simply press return if you want to leave any
+ or all of them unchanged.</p>
-<p>This command allows any aide to change the parameters of a room. Go to
- the room you wish to edit and enter the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit room</tt>
- command. A series of prompts will be displayed. The existing parameters
- will be displayed in brackets; simply press return if you want to leave
-any or all of them unchanged.</p>
-
<pre> <br>Room name [IG's Fun Room]:<br></pre>
-
+
<p>...the name of the room.</p>
-
+
<pre>Private room [Yes]? <br></pre>
-
-<p>...enter Yes if you wish to restrict access to the room, or no if the
-room is to be accessible by all users. Note that Citadel doesn't bother
-users about access to rooms every time they need to access the room. Once
-a user gains access to a private room, it then behaves like a public room
-to them. The following four questions will only be asked if you selected
-Private...</p>
-
+
+<p>...enter Yes if you wish to restrict access to the room, or no if the room
+is to be accessible by all users. Note that Citadel doesn't bother users
+about access to rooms every time they need to access the room. Once a user
+gains access to a private room, it then behaves like a public room to them.
+The following four questions will only be asked if you selected Private...</p>
+
<pre>Accessible by guessing room name [No]?<br></pre>
-
-<p>...if you enter Yes, the room will not show up in users' <tt><b>K</b>nown
- rooms</tt> listing, but if they <tt><b>.G</b>oto</tt> the room (typing the
+
+<p>...if you enter Yes, the room will not show up in users' <tt><b>K</b>nown
+ rooms</tt> listing, but if they <tt><b>.G</b>oto</tt> the room (typing the
room's full name), they will gain access to the room.</p>
-
+
<pre>Accessible by entering a password [No]?<br>Room password [mypasswd]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>...this adds an additional layer of security to the room, prompting users
- for a password before they can gain access to the room.</p>
-
-<p>If you did not select guessname or passworded, then the only way users
- can access the room is if an Aide explicitly invites them to the room using
+
+<p>...this adds an additional layer of security to the room, prompting users
+ for a password before they can gain access to the room.</p>
+
+<p>If you did not select guessname or passworded, then the only way users
+ can access the room is if an Aide explicitly invites them to the room using
the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>R</b>oom <b>I</b>nvite user</tt> command.</p>
-
+
<pre>Cause current users to forget room [No] ? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>Enter Yes if you wish to kick out anyone who currently has access to the
+
+<p>Enter Yes if you wish to kick out anyone who currently has access to the
room.</p>
-
+
<pre>Preferred users only [No]? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>Enter Yes if you wish to restrict the room to only users who have level
- 5 (Preferred User) status (and Aides too, of course). You should make the
- room public if you intend to do this, otherwise the two restrictions will
+
+<p>Enter Yes if you wish to restrict the room to only users who have level
+ 5 (Preferred User) status (and Aides too, of course). You should make the
+ room public if you intend to do this, otherwise the two restrictions will
be COMBINED.</p>
-
+
<pre>Read-only room [No]? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>If you set a room to Read-Only, then normal users will not be allowed
-to post messages in it. Messages may only be posted by Aides, and by utility
- programs such as the networker and the "aidepost" utility. This is useful
- in situations where a room is used exclusively for important announcements,
- or if you've set up a room to receive an Internet mailing list and posting
- wouldn't make sense. Other uses will, of course, become apparent as the
-need arises.</p>
-
+
+<p>If you set a room to Read-Only, then normal users will not be allowed to
+post messages in it. Messages may only be posted by Aides, and by utility
+ programs such as the networker and the "aidepost" utility. This is useful
+ in situations where a room is used exclusively for important announcements,
+ or if you've set up a room to receive an Internet mailing list and posting
+ wouldn't make sense. Other uses will, of course, become apparent as the
+ need arises.</p>
+
<p>Now for a few other attributes...</p>
-
+
<pre>Directory room [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
-
-<p>...enter Yes if you wish to associate a directory with this room. This
- can be used as a small file repository for files relevant to the topic of
- the room. If you enter Yes, you will also be prompted with the following
+
+<p>...enter Yes if you wish to associate a directory with this room. This
+ can be used as a small file repository for files relevant to the topic of
+ the room. If you enter Yes, you will also be prompted with the following
four questions:</p>
-
+
<pre>Directory name [mydirname]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>...the name of the subdirectory to put this room's files in. The name
- of the directory created will be <tt><i><your BBS directory></i>/files/<i><room
+
+<p>...the name of the subdirectory to put this room's files in. The name
+ of the directory created will be <tt><i><your BBS directory></i>/files/<i><room
dir name></i></tt>.</p>
-
+
<pre>Uploading allowed [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
-
+
<p>...enter Yes if users are allowed to upload to this room.</p>
-
-<pre>Downloading allowed [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
+<pre>Downloading allowed [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
+
<p>...enter Yes if users are allowed to download from this room.</p>
-
-<pre>Visible directory [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
+<pre>Visible directory [Yes]? Yes<br></pre>
+
<p>...enter Yes if users can read the directory of this room.</p>
-
-<pre>Network shared room [No]? No<br></pre>
-<p>...you can share a room over a network without setting this flag, and vice
-versa, but what this flag does is twofold: </p>
-
+<pre>Network shared room [No]? No<br></pre>
+
+<p>...you can share a room over a network without setting this flag, and
+vice versa, but what this flag does is twofold: </p>
+
<ul>
- <li>It prevents people with no network access from entering messages here
- </li>
- <li>Messages are displayed with the name of their originating system
+ <li>It prevents people with no network access from entering messages
+here </li>
+ <li>Messages are displayed with the name of their originating system
in the header. </li>
-
+
</ul>
-
+
<pre>Permanent room [No]? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>Citadel contains an 'auto purger' which is capable of removing rooms which
- have not been posted in for a pre-defined period of time (by default this
- is set to two weeks). If you wish to keep this from happening to a particular
- room, you can set this option. (Keep in mind that <tt>Lobby></tt>, <tt>Aide></tt>,
- any private mailbox rooms, any network shared rooms, and any rooms with a
- file directory are automatically permanent.)</p>
-
+
+<p>Citadel contains an 'auto purger' which is capable of removing rooms which
+ have not been posted in for a pre-defined period of time (by default this
+ is set to two weeks). If you wish to keep this from happening to a particular
+ room, you can set this option. (Keep in mind that <tt>Lobby></tt>,
+<tt>Aide></tt>, any private mailbox rooms, any network shared rooms,
+and any rooms with a file directory are automatically permanent.)</p>
+
<pre>Anonymous messages [No]? No<br>Ask users whether to make messages anonymous [No]? No<br></pre>
+
+<p>...you can have rooms in which all messages are automatically anonymous,
+ and you can have rooms in which users are prompted whether to make a message
+ anonymous when they enter it. The real identity of the author of each
+message is still revealed to the Room Aide for this room, as well as any
+system-wide Aides.</p>
-<p>...you can have rooms in which all messages are automatically anonymous,
- and you can have rooms in which users are prompted whether to make a message
- anonymous when they enter it. The real identity of the author of each message
- is still revealed to the Room Aide for this room, as well as any system-wide
- Aides.</p>
-
<pre>Room aide [Joe Responsible]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>...on larger systems, it helps to designate a person to be responsible
- for a room. Room Aides have access to a restricted set of Aide commands,
- ONLY when they are in the room in which they have this privilege. They
-can edit the room, delete the room, delete and move messages, and invite
-or kick out users (if it is a private room), but they cannot perform aide
-commands that are not room-related (such as changing users access levels).</p>
-
+
+<p>...on larger systems, it helps to designate a person to be responsible
+ for a room. Room Aides have access to a restricted set of Aide commands,
+ ONLY when they are in the room in which they have this privilege. They can
+ edit the room, delete the room, delete and move messages, and invite or
+kick out users (if it is a private room), but they cannot perform aide commands
+ that are not room-related (such as changing users access levels).</p>
+
<pre>Listing order [64]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>This is just a simple way to try to control the order rooms are listed
- in when users call up a <tt><b>K</b>nown Rooms</tt> listing. Rooms with
-a lower listing order are displayed prior to rooms with a higher listing
-order. It has no other effect. For users who list rooms in floor order,
-the display will sort first by floor, then by listing order.</p>
-
+
+<p>This is just a simple way to try to control the order rooms are listed
+ in when users call up a <tt><b>K</b>nown Rooms</tt> listing. Rooms with
+a lower listing order are displayed prior to rooms with a higher listing order.
+ It has no other effect. For users who list rooms in floor order, the display
+will sort first by floor, then by listing order.</p>
+
<pre>Message expire policy (? for list) [0]:<br></pre>
-
-<p>This provides you with the opportunity to select how long each message
- will remain in a room before automatically being deleted. Press <tt><b>?</b></tt>
- for a list of options. You can choose to keep messages around forever (or
- until they are manually deleted), until they become a certain number of days
- old, or until a certain number of additional messages are posted in the
-room, at which time the oldest ones will scroll out.</p>
-
-<p>You will notice that you can also fall back to the default expire policy
- for the floor upon which the room resides. This is the default setting.
- You can change the floor's default with the <tt><b>;A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit
-floor</tt> command. The default setting for the floor default, in turn,
-is the system default setting, which can be changed using the <tt><b>.A</b>ide
+
+<p>This provides you with the opportunity to select how long each message
+ will remain in a room before automatically being deleted. Press <tt><b>?</b></tt>
+ for a list of options. You can choose to keep messages around forever
+(or until they are manually deleted), until they become a certain number
+of days old, or until a certain number of additional messages are posted
+in the room, at which time the oldest ones will scroll out.</p>
+
+<p>You will notice that you can also fall back to the default expire policy
+ for the floor upon which the room resides. This is the default setting.
+ You can change the floor's default with the <tt><b>;A</b>ide <b>E</b>dit
+floor</tt> command. The default setting for the floor default, in turn, is
+the system default setting, which can be changed using the <tt><b>.A</b>ide
<b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt> command.</p>
-
+
<pre>Save changes (y/n)? Yes<br></pre>
-
-<p>...this gives you an opportunity to back out, if you feel you really messed
+
+<p>...this gives you an opportunity to back out, if you feel you really messed
things up while editing.</p>
-
+
<h3><a name="File_directories"></a>File directories</h3>
-
-<p>If you have created any directory rooms, you can attach file descriptions
- to the filenames through a special file called <tt>filedir</tt>. Each line
- contains the name of a file in the directory, followed by a space and then
+
+<p>If you have created any directory rooms, you can attach file descriptions
+ to the filenames through a special file called <tt>filedir</tt>. Each line
+ contains the name of a file in the directory, followed by a space and then
a description of the file, such as:</p>
-
+
<pre>myfile.txt This is a description of my file.<br>phluff A phile phull of phluff!<br></pre>
-
-<p>...this would create file descriptions for the files <tt>myfile.txt</tt>
- and <tt>phluff</tt> which would be displayed along with the directory. It
-should also be noted that when users upload files to your system, they will
-be prompted for file descriptions, which will be added to the <tt>filedir</tt>
+
+<p>...this would create file descriptions for the files <tt>myfile.txt</tt>
+ and <tt>phluff</tt> which would be displayed along with the directory.
+ It should also be noted that when users upload files to your system, they
+will be prompted for file descriptions, which will be added to the <tt>filedir</tt>
file. If one does not exist, it will be created.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Creating_and_editing_user_accounts"></a>Creating and editing
+
+<h3><a name="Creating_and_editing_user_accounts"></a>Creating and editing
user accounts</h3>
-
-<p>Anyone with Aide level access may use the <tt><b>.A</b>ide edit <b>U</b>ser</tt>
- command to create and/or edit user accounts. There are several parameters
+
+<p>Anyone with Aide level access may use the <tt><b>.A</b>ide edit <b>U</b>ser</tt>
+ command to create and/or edit user accounts. There are several parameters
which can be set here.</p>
-
+
<p>To create a user:</p>
-
+
<pre>Lobby> . Aide edit User <br>User name: New User Name<br>No such user.<br>Do you want to create this user? Yes<br></pre>
-
-<p>At this point, the new user account has been created, and the command
-will continue as if you were editing an existing account. Therefore the
-remainder of this procedure is the same for creating and editing:</p>
-
+
+<p>At this point, the new user account has been created, and the command will
+continue as if you were editing an existing account. Therefore the remainder
+of this procedure is the same for creating and editing:</p>
+
<pre>Lobby> . Aide edit User <br>User name: person of significance<br>User #70 - Person of Significance PW: <br> <br><br>, <br> <br> <br><br>Current access level: 4 (Network User)<br></pre>
-
-<p>The blank lines are the user's 'registration' information -- personal information
-such as full name, address, telephone number, etc. This information will
-comprise the user's vCard in both their user profile and in the Global Address
-Book.</p>
-
+
+<p>The blank lines are the user's 'registration' information -- personal
+information such as full name, address, telephone number, etc. This information
+will comprise the user's vCard in both their user profile and in the Global
+Address Book.</p>
+
<pre>Change password [No]: No<br></pre>
-
+
<p>...answer Yes to set or change the password for this account.</p>
-
+
<pre>Access level [4]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>...this allows you to set or change the access level for this account.
+
+<p>...this allows you to set or change the access level for this account.
The access levels available are as follows: </p>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>0 - Deleted. (This immediately deletes the account.) </li>
- <li>1 - New, unvalidated user </li>
- <li>2 - Problem user (severely restricts account - use for probationary
+ <li>0 - Deleted. (This immediately deletes the account.) </li>
+ <li>1 - New, unvalidated user </li>
+ <li>2 - Problem user (severely restricts account - use for probationary
access) </li>
- <li>3 - User with no network privileges. Same access as a normal user
+ <li>3 - User with no network privileges. Same access as a normal user
except cannot post messages in rooms shared on a network. </li>
- <li>4 - Normal user </li>
- <li>5 - Preferred user (access is granted to privileged rooms) </li>
- <li>6 - Aide (administrative access to the whole system) </li>
-
+ <li>4 - Normal user </li>
+ <li>5 - Preferred user (access is granted to privileged rooms) </li>
+ <li>6 - Aide (administrative access to the whole system) </li>
+
</ul>
-
+
<pre>Permission to send/receive Internet mail [ No]? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>If your system is configured to only allow Internet mail privileges to
- certain users, this is where you can grant or revoke that privilege.</p>
-
+
+<p>If your system is configured to only allow Internet mail privileges to
+ certain users, this is where you can grant or revoke that privilege.</p>
+
<pre>Ask user to register again [Yes]: Yes<br></pre>
-
-<p>If you answer Yes to this question, the user will be presented with a 'registration'
-screen or set of prompts, the next time they log in using a Citadel client.
- This will prompt them for their full name, address, telephone number, etc.</p>
-
+
+<p>If you answer Yes to this question, the user will be presented with a
+'registration' screen or set of prompts, the next time they log in using
+a Citadel client. This will prompt them for their full name, address, telephone
+number, etc.</p>
+
<pre>Times called [0]: <br>Messages posted [0]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>These statistics are available for informational purposes only, so there
- is normally no need to change them.</p>
-
+
+<p>These statistics are available for informational purposes only, so there
+ is normally no need to change them.</p>
+
<pre>Set last call to now [No]: No<br>Purge time (in days, 0 for system default [0]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>Citadel contains an auto-purger which is capable of automatically deleting
- accounts which have not been accessed in a predefined period of time. If
- you choose to perform this operation, you can 'touch' the account of a wayward
- user by setting their 'last call' time to 'now'. You can also adjust, on
- a per-user basis, the amount of time which must pass before their account
- is purged by the system. This time is set in days. You can also specify
- 0 days to indicate that you wish to use the system default setting.</p>
-
+
+<p>Citadel contains an auto-purger which is capable of automatically deleting
+ accounts which have not been accessed in a predefined period of time.
+If you choose to perform this operation, you can 'touch' the account of
+a wayward user by setting their 'last call' time to 'now'. You can also
+adjust, on a per-user basis, the amount of time which must pass before their
+account is purged by the system. This time is set in days. You can also
+specify 0 days to indicate that you wish to use the system default setting.</p>
+
<h3><a name="Deleting_and_moving_messages"></a>Deleting and moving messages</h3>
-
-<p>Aides and Room Aides have the ability to delete and move messages. After
- each message, the normal prompt appears:</p>
-
+
+<p>Aides and Room Aides have the ability to delete and move messages. After
+ each message, the normal prompt appears:</p>
+
<pre>(8) <B>ack <A>gain <Q>uote <R>eply <N>ext <S>top m<Y> next <?>help -><br></pre>
-
-<p>Entering <tt><b>D</b>elete</tt> will delete the message. A <tt>(y/n)</tt>
- prompt will appear to confirm that you really want to delete the message.
- Entering <tt><b>M</b>ove</tt> will prompt for a room to which the message
- should be moved.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Customizing_the_help_files"></a>Customizing the help files</h3>
-<p>The subdirectory called <tt>help</tt> contains your system's help files.
- There's nothing hard-coded into the system that dictates what files should
- be there. Whenever a user types the command <tt><b>.H</b>elp</tt> followed
+<p>Entering <tt><b>D</b>elete</tt> will delete the message. A <tt>(y/n)</tt>
+ prompt will appear to confirm that you really want to delete the message.
+ Entering <tt><b>M</b>ove</tt> will prompt for a room to which the message
+ should be moved.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Customizing_the_help_files"></a>Customizing the help files</h3>
+
+<p>The subdirectory called <tt>help</tt> contains your system's help files.
+ There's nothing hard-coded into the system that dictates what files should
+ be there. Whenever a user types the command <tt><b>.H</b>elp</tt> followed
by the name of a help file, it displays the contents of that help file.</p>
-
-<p>The help files that come with the system, of course, are enough to guide
- a user through its operation. But you can add, change, or remove help files
- to suit whatever is appropriate for your system.</p>
-
-<p>There are several strings that you can put in help files that will be
-automatically substituted with other strings. They are:</p>
-
+
+<p>The help files that come with the system, of course, are enough to guide
+ a user through its operation. But you can add, change, or remove help
+files to suit whatever is appropriate for your system.</p>
+
+<p>There are several strings that you can put in help files that will be automatically
+substituted with other strings. They are:</p>
+
<pre> <br> ^nodename = The node name of your system on a Citadel/UX network<br> ^humannode = Human-readable node name (also your node name on C86Net)<br> ^fqdn = Your system's fully-qualified domain name<br> ^username = The name of the user reading the help file<br> ^usernum = The user number of the user reading the help file<br> ^sysadm = The name of the system administraor (i.e., you)<br> ^variantname = The name of the BBS software you're running<br> ^bbsdir = The directory on the host system in which you have<br> installed the Citadel system.<br></pre>
-
+
<p>So, for example, you could create a help file which looked like:</p>
-
+
<pre> "Lots of help, of course, is available right here on ^humannode. Of<br>course, if you still have trouble, you could always bug ^sysadm about it!"<br></pre>
-
+
<h3><a name="Site_configuration"></a>Site configuration</h3>
-
-<p>Once your Citadel server is up and running, the first thing you'll want
- to do is customize and tune it. This can be done from the text-based client
- with the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt>
- command, or from WebCit (if you have it installed) by clicking 'Advanced
- Options' followed by 'Edit site-wide configuration.' Either method will
- offer the same configuration options. This document shows the text mode
+
+<p>Once your Citadel server is up and running, the first thing you'll want
+ to do is customize and tune it. This can be done from the text-based client
+ with the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt>
+ command, or from WebCit (if you have it installed) by clicking 'Advanced
+ Options' followed by 'Edit site-wide configuration.' Either method will
+ offer the same configuration options. This document shows the text mode
client being used.</p>
-
-<p>The first set of options deal with the identification of your system.</p>
+<p>The first set of options deal with the identification of your system.</p>
+
<pre>Lobby> . Aide System configuration General<br>Node name [uncnsrd]: <br>Fully qualified domain name [uncensored.citadel.org]: <br>Human readable node name [Uncensored]: <br>Modem dialup number [US 914 999 9999]: <br>Geographic location of this system [Mount Kisco, NY]: <br>Name of system administrator [IGnatius T Foobar]: <br>Paginator prompt [<jinkies
!="" more="" text="" on="" the="" next="" screen="">]: <br></jinkies></pre>
-
-<p>'Node name' refers to the short, unqualified node name by which your system
- is known on a Citadel network. Generally it will be the same as the unqualified
+
+<p>'Node name' refers to the short, unqualified node name by which your system
+ is known on a Citadel network. Generally it will be the same as the unqualified
host name of your computer; this is, in fact, the default setting.</p>
-
-<p>Then enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your system. If
-you are not on the Internet, you can simply set it to the same as your unqualified
- host name. Otherwise you should set this value to the host name by which
+
+<p>Then enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your system. If you
+are not on the Internet, you can simply set it to the same as your unqualified
+ host name. Otherwise you should set this value to the host name by which
your system is most commonly known.</p>
-
-<p>The field called 'Human-readable node name' (also known as the 'node title'
- or 'organization name' in other software) is used solely for display purposes.
- Set it to the actual name of your system as you want it to appear in banners,
+
+<p>The field called 'Human-readable node name' (also known as the 'node title'
+ or 'organization name' in other software) is used solely for display purposes.
+ Set it to the actual name of your system as you want it to appear in banners,
messages, etc.</p>
-
-<p>If you have a modem or bank of modems answering data calls for your system,
- enter it in the field marked 'Modem dialup number.' Otherwise you may leave
+
+<p>If you have a modem or bank of modems answering data calls for your system,
+ enter it in the field marked 'Modem dialup number.' Otherwise you may leave
it blank.</p>
-
-<p>'Geographic location of this system' is another display field. Enter
-a city and state, or city and country. </p>
-
-<p>'Name of system administrator' is important! Any user who logs on with
- the name you enter here will automatically be granted Aide privileges.
-This is one of two ways for the system administrator to grant himself/herself
-Aide access to the system when initially setting it up. (The other is simply
+
+<p>'Geographic location of this system' is another display field. Enter a
+ city and state, or city and country. </p>
+
+<p>'Name of system administrator' is important! Any user who logs on with
+ the name you enter here will automatically be granted Aide privileges. This
+ is one of two ways for the system administrator to grant himself/herself
+Aide access to the system when initially setting it up. (The other is simply
to have the first account created on a new installation.)</p>
-
-<p>The next set of options are your system's security settings. Before delving
- into the actual options, we should review the various access levels available
+
+<p>The next set of options are your system's security settings. Before delving
+ into the actual options, we should review the various access levels available
on the system. Citadel has seven access levels:</p>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>0 (Deleted). A user whose access level is set to 0 will automatically
+ <li>0 (Deleted). A user whose access level is set to 0 will automatically
be deleted by the system. </li>
- <li>1 (New User). Users at this level may only read messages. Entering
- messages is prohibited, except in the <tt>Mail></tt> room, where a message
- to 'sysop' may be entered. </li>
- <li>2 (Problem User). Also known as 'Twit.' </li>
- <li>3 (Local User). May enter messages, except in rooms shared on a
+ <li>1 (New User). Users at this level may only read messages. Entering
+ messages is prohibited, except in the <tt>Mail></tt> room, where a message
+ to 'sysop' may be entered. </li>
+ <li>2 (Problem User). Also known as 'Twit.' </li>
+ <li>3 (Local User). May enter messages, except in rooms shared on a
Citadel network. </li>
- <li>4 (Network User). May enter messages in every accessible room.
- </li>
- <li>5 (Preferred User). Use of this level is up to the whim of the system
- administrator. </li>
- <li>6 (Aide). Access is granted to the administrative functions of the
- system. (This access level may also be granted to a user only for a specific
- room, please see 'Room Aide' for more information.) </li>
-
+ <li>4 (Network User). May enter messages in every accessible room.
+ </li>
+ <li>5 (Preferred User). Use of this level is up to the whim of the
+system administrator. </li>
+ <li>6 (Aide). Access is granted to the administrative functions of
+the system. (This access level may also be granted to a user only for
+a specific room, please see 'Room Aide' for more information.) </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<pre>Require registration for new users [No]: No<br>Disable self-service user account creation [No]: No<br>Initial access level for new users [4]:<br>Access level required to create rooms [4]: <br>Automatically give room aide privs to a user who creates a private room [No]: No<br><br>Automatically move problem user messages to twit room [Yes]: Yes<br>Name of twit room [Trashcan]: <br>Restrict Internet mail to only those with that privilege [No]: No<br>Allow Aides to Zap (forget) rooms [Yes]: Yes<br>Allow system Aides access to user mailboxes [Yes]: Yes<br>Log all pages [No]: No<br></pre>
-<p>'Registration' refers to the process of a user entering various personal
- contact information (real name, address, telephone number, etc.) into the
- system. When enabled, this information is stored as a vCard object on the
- system in two places: the user's <tt>My Citadel Config></tt> room, and
- in the <tt>Global Address Book></tt> room. (Note: the latter should
+<pre>Require registration for new users [No]: No<br>Disable self-service user account creation [No]: No<br>Initial access level for new users [4]:<br>Access level required to create rooms [4]: <br>Automatically give room aide privs to a user who creates a private room [No]: No<br><br>Automatically move problem user messages to twit room [Yes]: Yes<br>Name of twit room [Trashcan]: <br>Restrict Internet mail to only those with that privilege [No]: No<br>Allow Aides to Zap (forget) rooms [Yes]: Yes<br>Allow system Aides access to user mailboxes [Yes]: Yes<br>Log all pages [No]: No<br></pre>
+
+<p>'Registration' refers to the process of a user entering various personal
+ contact information (real name, address, telephone number, etc.) into the
+ system. When enabled, this information is stored as a vCard object on
+the system in two places: the user's <tt>My Citadel Config></tt> room,
+and in the <tt>Global Address Book></tt> room. (Note: the latter should
be made private on publicly-accessible systems, for obvious reasons.)</p>
-
-<p>If you answer Yes to 'Require registration for new users' then each new
- user, upon creating a new account, will immediately be entered into the registration
-process. On the other hand, if you answer Yes to 'Disable self-service user
-account creation' then new users will not be able to log in at all -- all
-accounts must be created by an Aide.</p>
-
-<p>'Initial access level for new users' should be set to 1 (New User) if
-you would like to review each new user's registration info before granting
- them higher access. This would be done periodically with the <tt><b>.A</b>ide
- <b>V</b>alidate new users</tt> command. If you do not require registration,
+
+<p>If you answer Yes to 'Require registration for new users' then each new
+ user, upon creating a new account, will immediately be entered into the
+registration process. On the other hand, if you answer Yes to 'Disable self-service
+user account creation' then new users will not be able to log in at all --
+all accounts must be created by an Aide.</p>
+
+<p>'Initial access level for new users' should be set to 1 (New User) if you
+ would like to review each new user's registration info before granting
+ them higher access. This would be done periodically with the <tt><b>.A</b>ide
+ <b>V</b>alidate new users</tt> command. If you do not require registration,
you should set the initial access level to 4 (Network User).</p>
-
-<p>Given the above options, it then becomes clear that there are generally
- two ways you can set up your Citadel system, depending on its purpose:</p>
-
+
+<p>Given the above options, it then becomes clear that there are generally
+ two ways you can set up your Citadel system, depending on its purpose:</p>
+
<ul>
- <li><b>A public access BBS or message board</b> - since you do not know
- who might want to log in, self-service account creation needs to stay enabled.
- If you want to be strict about users identifying themselves, then you should
- also require users to register (just remember to post a privacy policy if
- you're going to collect personal information) -- then set the initial access
- level to 1 (New User), so new users cannot post messages until after you've
- validated them. For a more lax environment, you can remove the registration
- requirement and grant new accounts level 4 (Normal User) access on the first
+ <li><b>A public access BBS or message board</b> - since you do not know
+ who might want to log in, self-service account creation needs to stay enabled.
+ If you want to be strict about users identifying themselves, then you should
+ also require users to register (just remember to post a privacy policy
+if you're going to collect personal information) -- then set the initial
+access level to 1 (New User), so new users cannot post messages until after
+you've validated them. For a more lax environment, you can remove the registration
+ requirement and grant new accounts level 4 (Normal User) access on the first
visit. </li>
- <li><b>A private email/groupware system for your organization</b> - in
- this case, disable self-service account creation; you don't want strangers
- welcoming themselves to your system. You'll probably also want to disable
- registration, because you or some other site administrator will be entering
- users' contact info when you create their accounts. Since this is also
-how you assign their Internet e-mail addresses, it's probably a good idea
-to do it yourself instead of expecting them to do it. </li>
-
+ <li><b>A private email/groupware system for your organization</b> -
+in this case, disable self-service account creation; you don't want strangers
+ welcoming themselves to your system. You'll probably also want to disable
+ registration, because you or some other site administrator will be entering
+ users' contact info when you create their accounts. Since this is also how
+ you assign their Internet e-mail addresses, it's probably a good idea to
+do it yourself instead of expecting them to do it. </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>'Access level required to create rooms' is up to you. You might wish
-to restrict the creation of new rooms only to Aides, or you might wish to
- allow anyone to create a room. The latter is one of the Citadel culture's
-most long-standing traditions; the former may be appropriate if users are
-abusing this privilege.</p>
-
-<p>You have the ability to 'Automatically give room aide privs to a user
-who creates a private room.' If you answer Yes, then any user who creates
-a guess-name, passworded, or invitation-only room will automatically become
- the room aide, and will have access to a subset of the <tt><b>.A</b>ide</tt>
- command set while in that room. If you would rather grant this permission
+
+<p>'Access level required to create rooms' is up to you. You might wish to
+restrict the creation of new rooms only to Aides, or you might wish to allow
+anyone to create a room. The latter is one of the Citadel culture's most
+long-standing traditions; the former may be appropriate if users are abusing
+this privilege.</p>
+
+<p>You have the ability to 'Automatically give room aide privs to a user who
+ creates a private room.' If you answer Yes, then any user who creates a
+guess-name, passworded, or invitation-only room will automatically become
+ the room aide, and will have access to a subset of the <tt><b>.A</b>ide</tt>
+ command set while in that room. If you would rather grant this permission
manually, answer No.</p>
-
-<p>Another tradition in the Citadel culture is to refrain from deleting problem
-users, but instead to 'twit' them (reduce their access level to 2 [Problem
-User]). You can then 'Automatically move problem user messages to twit
-room' (answer Yes, then specify 'Name of twit room' and remember to create
-that room). If you employ this logic, any user with level 2 (Problem User)
-access will continue to have access to the same set of rooms, but all messages
-posted will automatically be routed to the Trashcan (or whatever you call
-your twit room).</p>
-
-<p>If you have Internet mail configured, you have the option of restricting
- its use on a user-by-user basis. If you wish to do this, answer Yes to
-'Restrict Internet mail to only those with that privilege.' Obviously this
-makes no sense for an internal e-mail system, but for a public BBS it might
-be appropriate.</p>
-
-<p>Normally, Aides have access to every room, public or private, except for
- user mailboxes. They are also forbidden from <tt><b>Z</b>ap</tt>ping rooms,
- because the review of content is considered one of their roles. If you
-wish to change these policies, the next two options allow you to. You may
-'Allow Aides to Zap (forget) rooms', in which case they may use the <tt><b>Z</b>ap</tt>
- command just like any other user. Furthermore, if you 'Allow system Aides
- access to user mailboxes', then they may <tt><b>.G</b>oto</tt> any private
+
+<p>Another tradition in the Citadel culture is to refrain from deleting
+problem users, but instead to 'twit' them (reduce their access level to 2
+[Problem User]). You can then 'Automatically move problem user messages
+to twit room' (answer Yes, then specify 'Name of twit room' and remember
+to create that room). If you employ this logic, any user with level 2 (Problem
+User) access will continue to have access to the same set of rooms, but all
+messages posted will automatically be routed to the Trashcan (or whatever
+you call your twit room).</p>
+
+<p>If you have Internet mail configured, you have the option of restricting
+ its use on a user-by-user basis. If you wish to do this, answer Yes to 'Restrict
+ Internet mail to only those with that privilege.' Obviously this makes no
+ sense for an internal e-mail system, but for a public BBS it might be appropriate.</p>
+
+<p>Normally, Aides have access to every room, public or private, except for
+ user mailboxes. They are also forbidden from <tt><b>Z</b>ap</tt>ping rooms,
+ because the review of content is considered one of their roles. If you wish
+ to change these policies, the next two options allow you to. You may 'Allow
+ Aides to Zap (forget) rooms', in which case they may use the <tt><b>Z</b>ap</tt>
+ command just like any other user. Furthermore, if you 'Allow system Aides
+ access to user mailboxes', then they may <tt><b>.G</b>oto</tt> any private
mailbox belonging to any user, using a special room name format.</p>
-
-<p>If your local security and/or privacy policy dictates that you keep a log
-of all pages (instant messages) that go through the system, then answer Yes
-to 'Log all pages'. If you answer Yes, you will be prompted for the name
-of a room to which all pages will be logged. If you answer No, then only
-the sender and recipient of each individual message will receive a copy.</p>
-
-<p>The next set of options deals with the tuning of your system. It is usually
+
+<p>If your local security and/or privacy policy dictates that you keep a
+log of all pages (instant messages) that go through the system, then answer
+Yes to 'Log all pages'. If you answer Yes, you will be prompted for the
+name of a room to which all pages will be logged. If you answer No, then
+only the sender and recipient of each individual message will receive a copy.</p>
+
+<p>The next set of options deals with the tuning of your system. It is usually
safe to leave these untouched.</p>
-
+
<pre>Server connection idle timeout (in seconds) [900]: <br>Maximum concurrent sessions [20]: <br>Maximum message length [2147483647]: <br>Minimum number of worker threads [5]: <br>Maximum number of worker threads [256]: <br></pre>
-
-<p>The 'Server connection idle timeout' is for the connection between client
- and server software. It is <b>not</b> an idle timer for the user interface.
- 900 seconds (15 minutes) is the default and a sane setting.</p>
-
-<p>'Maximum concurrent sessions' is the highest number of user sessions you
- wish to allow on your system at any given time. Citadel can scale to hundreds
- of concurrent users, but if you have limited hardware or (more likely) limited
- bandwidth, you might wish to set a maximum. You can also set it to zero
+
+<p>The 'Server connection idle timeout' is for the connection between client
+ and server software. It is <b>not</b> an idle timer for the user interface.
+ 900 seconds (15 minutes) is the default and a sane setting.</p>
+
+<p>'Maximum concurrent sessions' is the highest number of user sessions you
+ wish to allow on your system at any given time. Citadel can scale to hundreds
+ of concurrent users, but if you have limited hardware or (more likely) limited
+ bandwidth, you might wish to set a maximum. You can also set it to zero
for no limit.</p>
-
-<p>'Maximum message length' is just that. This could be a good way to prevent
- enormous multimedia files from finding their way into your message base.
- This maximum is enforced in all protocols and is also advertised by the
-ESMTP service.</p>
-
-<p>The minimum and maximum number of worker threads can be tuned to your liking.
- Citadel will attempt to keep one worker thread running per session, within
-these constraints. You should be aware that due to the use of the worker
-thread model, Citadel can handle a large number of concurrent sessions with
-a much smaller thread pool. If you don't know the programming theory behind
-multithreaded servers, you should leave these parameters alone.</p>
-
+
+<p>'Maximum message length' is just that. This could be a good way to prevent
+ enormous multimedia files from finding their way into your message base.
+ This maximum is enforced in all protocols and is also advertised by the ESMTP
+service.</p>
+
+<p>The minimum and maximum number of worker threads can be tuned to your
+liking. Citadel will attempt to keep one worker thread running per session,
+within these constraints. You should be aware that due to the use of the
+worker thread model, Citadel can handle a large number of concurrent sessions
+with a much smaller thread pool. If you don't know the programming theory
+behind multithreaded servers, you should leave these parameters alone.</p>
+
<p>The next set of options affect how Citadel behaves on a network.</p>
-
+
<pre>How often to run network jobs (in seconds) [3600]: <br>SMTP server port (-1 to disable) [25]: <br>POP3 server port (-1 to disable) [110]:<br>IMAP server port (-1 to disable) [143]:<br></pre>
-
-<p>'How often to run network jobs' refers to the sharing of content on a Citadel
-network. If your system is on a Citadel network, this configuration item
-dictates how often the Citadel server will contact other Citadel servers
- to send and receive messages. In reality, this will happen more frequently
- than you specify, because other Citadel servers will be contacting yours
+
+<p>'How often to run network jobs' refers to the sharing of content on a
+Citadel network. If your system is on a Citadel network, this configuration
+item dictates how often the Citadel server will contact other Citadel servers
+ to send and receive messages. In reality, this will happen more frequently
+ than you specify, because other Citadel servers will be contacting yours
at regular intervals as well.</p>
-
-<p>Then you can specify TCP port numbers for the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP services.
- For a system being used primarily for Internet e-mail, these are essential,
- so you'll want to specify the standard port numbers: 25, 110, and 143.
-If Citadel is running alongside some other mail system, though, then you
-might want to choose other, unused port numbers, or enter -1 for any protocol
-to disable it entirely.</p>
-
+
+<p>Then you can specify TCP port numbers for the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP services.
+ For a system being used primarily for Internet e-mail, these are essential,
+ so you'll want to specify the standard port numbers: 25, 110, and 143. If
+ Citadel is running alongside some other mail system, though, then you might
+ want to choose other, unused port numbers, or enter -1 for any protocol to
+ disable it entirely.</p>
+
<p>The final set of options configures system-wide defaults for the auto-purger:</p>
-
+
<pre>Default user purge time (days) [120]: <br>Default room purge time (days) [30]: <br>System default message expire policy (? for list) [2]: <br>Keep how many messages online? [150]:<br></pre>
-
-<p>Any user who does not log in for the period specified in 'Default user
- purge time' will be deleted the next time a purge is run. This setting may
-be modified on a per-user basis.</p>
-
-<p>'Default room purge time' behaves the same way, and may also be modified
- on a per-room basis.</p>
-
-<p>'System default message expire policy' defines the way in which old messages
+
+<p>Any user who does not log in for the period specified in 'Default user
+ purge time' will be deleted the next time a purge is run. This setting
+may be modified on a per-user basis.</p>
+
+<p>'Default room purge time' behaves the same way, and may also be modified
+ on a per-room basis.</p>
+
+<p>'System default message expire policy' defines the way in which old messages
are expired (purged) off the system. You can specify any of:</p>
-
+
<ul>
- <li>Purge by age (specify in days) </li>
- <li>Purge by message count in the room (specify number of messages)
- </li>
- <li>Do not purge at all </li>
-
+ <li>Purge by age (specify in days) </li>
+ <li>Purge by message count in the room (specify number of messages)
+ </li>
+ <li>Do not purge at all </li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>Again, this setting may be overridden on a per-floor basis, and the floor
- setting may be overridden on a per-room basis.</p>
+<p>Again, this setting may be overridden on a per-floor basis, and the floor
+ setting may be overridden on a per-room basis.</p>
+
<pre>Save this configuration? No<br></pre>
-
-<p>When you're done, enter 'Yes' to confirm the changes, or 'No' to discard
- the changes.</p>
- </div>
-
-<hr width="100%" size="2">
-<h2 align="center"><a name="Configuring_Citadel_for_Internet_e-mail"></a>Configuring
+
+<p>When you're done, enter 'Yes' to confirm the changes, or 'No' to discard
+ the changes.</p>
+ </div>
+
+<hr width="100%" size="2">
+<h2 align="center"><a name="Configuring_Citadel_for_Internet_e-mail"></a>Configuring
Citadel for Internet e-mail</h2>
-<div align="justify">
+
+<div align="justify">
<h3><a name="Introduction"></a>Introduction</h3>
-As you know by now, Citadel is a completely self-contained, full-featured
-Internet e-mail system. When you run Citadel you do not need any other
-mail software on your host system. This eliminates the need for tedious
-mucking about with sendmail, qmail, postfix, Cyrus, the UW IMAP server, or
-any of countless other needlessly complex programs that lead some people
-to the false assumption that Unix systems are difficult to administer.<br>
-<br>
-Some of the many features supported by Citadel are:<br>
+ As you know by now, Citadel is a completely self-contained, full-featured
+Internet e-mail system. When you run Citadel you do not need any other
+mail software on your host system. This eliminates the need for tedious
+mucking about with sendmail, qmail, postfix, Cyrus, the UW IMAP server, or
+any of countless other needlessly complex programs that lead some people to
+the false assumption that Unix systems are difficult to administer.<br>
+ <br>
+ Some of the many features supported by Citadel are:<br>
+
<ul>
- <li>Built-in SMTP and ESMTP service, for delivering and receiving e-mail
+ <li>Built-in SMTP and ESMTP service, for delivering and receiving e-mail
on the Internet</li>
- <li>Built-in POP3 service, for remote fetching of messages</li>
- <li>Built-in IMAP service, for access to mail using any standard mail client
-program</li>
- <li>Web mail (implemented using the "WebCit" middleware, which is installed
+ <li>Built-in POP3 service, for remote fetching of messages</li>
+ <li>Built-in IMAP service, for access to mail using any standard mail
+client program</li>
+ <li>Web mail (implemented using the "WebCit" middleware, which is installed
separately)</li>
- <li>Support for mailing lists, in both "individual message" and "digest"
+ <li>Support for mailing lists, in both "individual message" and "digest"
formats</li>
- <li>Multiple/virtual domain support</li>
- <li>Any user may have multiple Internet e-mail addresses, in multiple domains</li>
- <li>Global address book (Users with addresses in a domain may be spread
+ <li>Multiple/virtual domain support</li>
+ <li>Any user may have multiple Internet e-mail addresses, in multiple
+domains</li>
+ <li>Global address book (Users with addresses in a domain may be spread
out across many servers on a Citadel network)</li>
- <li>Easy-to-configure integration with <a
- href="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> can block spam <i>before</i>
+
<li>Easy-to-configure integration with <a
+ href="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> can block spam <i>before</i>
it enters the mail system</li>
+
</ul>
-This section of the documentation will demonstrate how to configure these
+ This section of the documentation will demonstrate how to configure these
features.<br>
-<br>
+ <br>
+
<h3><a name="Basic_site_configuration"></a>Basic site configuration</h3>
-
-<P>Basic configuration of your Citadel system for Internet e-mail begins
-with the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <B>S</b>ystem configuration <B>I</b>nternet</tt>
-command:</p>
-
-<PRE>
-Lobby> <b>.A</b>ide <B>S</b>ystem configuration <B>I</b>nternet
-
-### Host or domain Record type
---- -------------------------------------------------- --------------------
- 1
-<A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit ->
-</PRE>
-
-<P>This is a "clean" setup. For a simple, standalone e-mail system
-you simply have to enter the <TT><B>A</B>dd</TT> command:</p>
-
-<PRE>
-<A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit -> <B>A</B>dd
-
-Enter host name: schmeep.splorph.com
- (1) localhost (Alias for this computer)
- (2) gateway domain (Domain for all Citadel systems)
- (3) smart-host (Forward all outbound mail to this host)
- (4) directory (Consult the Global Address Book)
- (5) SpamAssassin (Address of SpamAssassin server)
-
-Which one [1]:
-</PRE>
-
-<p><b>localhost:</b> Basically what you're doing here is telling Citadel what
-any aliases for
-your machine are. If your machine were <tt>schmeep.splorph.com</tt> and you
-also had a DNS entry set up for <tt>blah.com</tt>, you might want to enter '1'
-and enter <tt>blah.com</tt> as your alias, so that e-mail sent to that
-address won't bounce.</p>
-
-<p><i>Important tip:</i> if your system is known by one name and <i>only</i>
-one domain, you might not even need to do this at all. You will recall that
-you entered your system's fully qualified domain name earlier when you went
-through the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <B>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt>
-command. The domain name you entered there is automatically considered by
-Citadel to be a 'localhost' entry in your Internet mail configuration. It
+
+<p>Basic configuration of your Citadel system for Internet e-mail begins with
+the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>I</b>nternet</tt> command:</p>
+
+<pre>Lobby> <b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>I</b>nternet<br><br>### Host or domain Record type<br>--- -------------------------------------------------- --------------------<br> 1<br><A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit -><br></pre>
+
+<p>This is a "clean" setup. For a simple, standalone e-mail system you simply
+have to enter the <tt><b>A</b>dd</tt> command:</p>
+
+<pre><A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit -> <b>A</b>dd<br><br>Enter host name: schmeep.splorph.com<br> (1) localhost (Alias for this computer)<br> (2) gateway domain (Domain for all Citadel systems)<br> (3) smart-host (Forward all outbound mail to this host)<br> (4) directory (Consult the Global Address Book)<br> (5) SpamAssassin (Address of SpamAssassin server)<br><br>Which one [1]:<br></pre>
+
+<p><b>localhost:</b> Basically what you're doing here is telling Citadel
+what any aliases for your machine are. If your machine were <tt>schmeep.splorph.com</tt>
+and you also had a DNS entry set up for <tt>blah.com</tt>, you might want
+to enter '1' and enter <tt>blah.com</tt> as your alias, so that e-mail sent
+to that address won't bounce.</p>
+
+<p><i>Important tip:</i> if your system is known by one name and <i>only</i>
+one domain, you might not even need to do this at all. You will recall that
+you entered your system's fully qualified domain name earlier when you went
+through the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt>
+command. The domain name you entered there is automatically considered by
+Citadel to be a 'localhost' entry in your Internet mail configuration. It
does not hurt to enter it in both locations, though.</p>
-
-<p><B>gateway domain:</b> this is a simple way of mapping various Citadel
-hosts in an Internet domain. For example, if you enter <tt>bar.com</tt>
-as a gateway domain, then mail to users at <tt>foo.bar.com</tt> will be
-forwarded to the host called <tt>foo</tt> on a Citadel network, mail to users
-at <tt>kunst.bar.com</tt> will be delivered to the Citadel server called
-<tt>kunst</tt>, etc. This feature has limited usefulness; if you are
-operating a network of Citadel servers, it is more likely that you will
-use the 'directory' feature, explained below.</p>
-
-<p><b>smart-host:</b> Normally, Citadel sends outbound Internet e-mail
-directly to its destination. This may not be appropriate for some sites; you
-may require (due to local convention, security policy, or whatever) that all
-outbound mail be sent to an SMTP relay or forwarder. To configure this
-functionality, simply enter the domain name or IP address of your relay as
-a 'smart-host' entry.</p>
-
-<p><b>directory:</b> a domain for which you are participating in directory
-services across any number of Citadel nodes. For example, if users who have
-addresses in the domain <tt>citadel.org</tt> are spread out across multiple
-Citadel servers on your network, then enter <tt>citadel.org</tt> as a
-'directory' entry. <i>For this to work, all Citadel servers participating
-in directory service <b>must</b> carry and share the <tt>Global Address
-Book></tt> room.</i></p>
-
-<p><b>spamassassin:</b> if you are running a
-<a href="http://www.spamassassin.org">SpamAssassin</a> service anywhere on
-your <b>local</b> network, enter its name or IP address as a 'spamassassin'
-entry. This may be (and, in fact, will usually be) <tt>127.0.0.1</tt> to
-specify that the service is running on the same host computer as the
-Citadel server.</p>
-
-<p>Please install SpamAssassin as per its own documentation. You will want
-to run SpamAssassin in client/server mode, where a <tt>spamd</tt> daemon is
-always running on your computer. Citadel does not utilize the <tt>spamc</tt>
+
+<p><b>gateway domain:</b> this is a simple way of mapping various Citadel
+hosts in an Internet domain. For example, if you enter <tt>bar.com</tt> as
+a gateway domain, then mail to users at <tt>foo.bar.com</tt> will be forwarded
+to the host called <tt>foo</tt> on a Citadel network, mail to users at <tt>kunst.bar.com</tt>
+will be delivered to the Citadel server called <tt>kunst</tt>, etc. This
+feature has limited usefulness; if you are operating a network of Citadel
+servers, it is more likely that you will use the 'directory' feature, explained
+below.</p>
+
+<p><b>smart-host:</b> Normally, Citadel sends outbound Internet e-mail directly
+to its destination. This may not be appropriate for some sites; you may
+require (due to local convention, security policy, or whatever) that all outbound
+mail be sent to an SMTP relay or forwarder. To configure this functionality,
+simply enter the domain name or IP address of your relay as a 'smart-host'
+entry.</p>
+
+<p><b>directory:</b> a domain for which you are participating in directory
+services across any number of Citadel nodes. For example, if users who have
+addresses in the domain <tt>citadel.org</tt> are spread out across multiple
+Citadel servers on your network, then enter <tt>citadel.org</tt> as a 'directory'
+entry. <i>For this to work, all Citadel servers participating in directory
+service <b>must</b> carry and share the <tt>Global Address Book></tt>
+room.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>spamassassin:</b> if you are running a <a
+ href="http://www.spamassassin.org">SpamAssassin</a> service anywhere on your
+<b>local</b> network, enter its name or IP address as a 'spamassassin' entry.
+ This may be (and, in fact, will usually be) <tt>127.0.0.1</tt> to specify
+that the service is running on the same host computer as the Citadel server.</p>
+
+<p>Please install SpamAssassin as per its own documentation. You will want
+to run SpamAssassin in client/server mode, where a <tt>spamd</tt> daemon
+is always running on your computer. Citadel does not utilize the <tt>spamc</tt>
client; instead, it implements SpamAssassin's protocol on its own.</p>
-
-<p>Connecting to a SpamAssassin service across a wide area network is
-strongly discouraged. In order to determine whether an incoming e-mail is
-spam, Citadel must feed the <i>entire message</i> to the SpamAssassin
-service. Doing this over a wide area network would consume time and
-bandwidth, which would affect performance.</p>
-
-<p>Citadel invokes the SpamAssassin service when incoming messages are
-arriving via SMTP. Before a message is accepted, it is submitted to
-SpamAssassin. If SpamAssassin determines that the message is spam, the
-Citadel SMTP service <i>rejects the message,</i> causing a delivery failure
-on the sending host. This is superior to software which files away spam
-in a separate folder, because delivery failures will cause some spammers to
-assume the address is invalid and remove it from their mailing lists.</p>
-
-<p>Now select <tt><b>S</b>ave</tt> and you are just about ready for
-Internet e-mail.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Enabling_the_Internet_mail_protocols"></a>Enabling the Internet
+
+<p>Connecting to a SpamAssassin service across a wide area network is strongly
+discouraged. In order to determine whether an incoming e-mail is spam, Citadel
+must feed the <i>entire message</i> to the SpamAssassin service. Doing this
+over a wide area network would consume time and bandwidth, which would affect
+performance.</p>
+
+<p>Citadel invokes the SpamAssassin service when incoming messages are arriving
+via SMTP. Before a message is accepted, it is submitted to SpamAssassin.
+ If SpamAssassin determines that the message is spam, the Citadel SMTP service
+<i>rejects the message,</i> causing a delivery failure on the sending host.
+ This is superior to software which files away spam in a separate folder,
+because delivery failures will cause some spammers to assume the address
+is invalid and remove it from their mailing lists.</p>
+
+<p>Now select <tt><b>S</b>ave</tt> and you are just about ready for Internet
+e-mail.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Enabling_the_Internet_mail_protocols"></a>Enabling the Internet
mail protocols</h3>
-
-<P>As previously mentioned, Citadel contains its own SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
+
+<p>As previously mentioned, Citadel contains its own SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
services. Enabling them is simple.</p>
-
-<P>Check for the existance of a current MTA (sendmail, qmail, etc.) by
-connecting to port 25 on your host.
-If you see something similar to the following you're running an MTA
-already and you'll need to shut it down:</p>
-
-<PRE>
-smw @ pixel % telnet localhost 25
-Trying 127.0.0.1...
-Connected to localhost.
-Escape character is '^]'.
-220 pixel.citadel.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:00:53 -0500
-</PRE>
-
-<P>In the above example, we see that the host already has Sendmail listening
-on port 25. Before Citadel can use port 25, Sendmail must be shut off.
-Please consult the documentation for your operating system for instructions
-on how to do this. (On a Red Hat Linux system, for example, you can run
-the <TT>ntsysv</tt> utility, un-checking <tt>sendmail</tt> to disable it
-at the next reboot; then, run <tt>service sendmail stop</tt> to shut off the
-currently running service.)</p>
-
-<p>If you get a 'connection refused' message when you telnet to port 25 there's
-nothing running and you should be able to continue. You might also want to
-turn off POP (try the above test substituting 110 for 25) and IMAP (port 143)
-and use Citadel's POP and IMAP services.</p>
-
-<p>Citadel will look for an existing pop/smtp server on startup. If they don't
-exist (and you've configured them properly) then Citadel should
-enable them at startup. You can check your logs to be sure, or you can
-start the server from a shell and watch it load. It might look something
-like this:</p>
-
-<FONT SIZE=-2><PRE>
-smw @ pixel % ./citserver
-
-Multithreaded message server for Citadel/UX
-Copyright (C) 1987-2000 by the Citadel/UX development team.
-Citadel/UX is open source, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
-you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
-conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for this software. Please
-read the 'COPYING.txt' file for details.
-
-Loading citadel.config
-Opening databases
-This is GDBM version 1.8.0, as of May 19, 1999.
-Checking floor reference counts
-Creating base rooms (if necessary)
-Registered a new service (TCP port 504)
-Registered a new service (TCP port 0)
-Initializing loadable modules
-Registered server command CHAT (Begin real-time chat)
-Registered server command PEXP (Poll for express messages)
-Registered server command GEXP (Get express messages)
-Registered server command SEXP (Send an express message)
-Registered server command DEXP (Disable express messages)
-Registered a new session function (type 0)
-Registered a new x-msg function (priority 0)
-Loaded module: $Id$
-Registered a new session function (type 1)
-Registered a new message function (type 201)
-Registered a new message function (type 202)
-Registered server command REGI (Enter registration info)
-Registered server command GREG (Get registration info)
-Registered a new user function (type 100)
-Loaded module: $Id$
-Server-hosted upgrade level is 5.62
-Loaded module: $Id$
-Registered server command EXPI (Expire old system objects)
-Registered server command FSCK (Check message ref counts)
-Loaded module: $Id$
-<B>citserver: Can't bind: Address already in use
-ERROR: could not bind to TCP port 25.</B>
+
+<p>Check for the existance of a current MTA (sendmail, qmail, etc.) by connecting
+to port 25 on your host. If you see something similar to the following you're
+running an MTA already and you'll need to shut it down:</p>
+
+<pre>smw @ pixel % telnet localhost 25<br>Trying 127.0.0.1...<br>Connected to localhost.<br>Escape character is '^]'.<br>220 pixel.citadel.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:00:53 -0500<br></pre>
+
+<p>In the above example, we see that the host already has Sendmail listening
+on port 25. Before Citadel can use port 25, Sendmail must be shut off. Please
+consult the documentation for your operating system for instructions on how
+to do this. (On a Red Hat Linux system, for example, you can run the <tt>ntsysv</tt>
+utility, un-checking <tt>sendmail</tt> to disable it at the next reboot;
+then, run <tt>service sendmail stop</tt> to shut off the currently running
+service.)</p>
+
+<p>If you get a 'connection refused' message when you telnet to port 25 there's
+ nothing running and you should be able to continue. You might also want
+to turn off POP (try the above test substituting 110 for 25) and IMAP (port
+143) and use Citadel's POP and IMAP services.</p>
+
+<p>Citadel will look for an existing pop/smtp server on startup. If they
+don't exist (and you've configured them properly) then Citadel should enable
+them at startup. You can check your logs to be sure, or you can start the
+server from a shell and watch it load. It might look something like this:</p>
+ <font size="-2">
+<pre>smw @ pixel % ./citserver<br><br>Multithreaded message server for Citadel/UX<br>Copyright (C) 1987-2000 by the Citadel/UX development team.<br>Citadel/UX is open source, covered by the GNU General Public License, and<br>you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain<br>conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for this software. Please<br>read the 'COPYING.txt' file for details.<br><br>Loading citadel.config<br>Opening databases<br>This is GDBM version 1.8.0, as of May 19, 1999.<br>Checking floor reference counts<br>Creating base rooms (if necessary)<br>Registered a new service (TCP port 504)<br>Registered a new service (TCP port 0)<br>Initializing loadable modules<br>Registered server command CHAT (Begin real-time chat)<br>Registered server command PEXP (Poll for express messages)<br>Registered server command GEXP (Get express messages)<br>Registered server command SEXP (Send an express message)<br>Registered server command DEXP (Disable express messages)<br>Registered a new session function (type 0)<br>Registered a new x-msg function (priority 0)<br>Loaded module: $Id$<br>Registered a new session function (type 1)<br>Registered a new message function (type 201)<br>Registered a new message function (type 202)<br>Registered server command REGI (Enter registration info)<br>Registered server command GREG (Get registration info)<br>Registered a new user function (type 100)<br>Loaded module: $Id$<br>Server-hosted upgrade level is 5.62<br>Loaded module: $Id$<br>Registered server command EXPI (Expire old system objects)<br>Registered server command FSCK (Check message ref counts)<br>Loaded module: $Id$<br><b>citserver: Can't bind: Address already in use<br>ERROR: could not bind to TCP port 25.</b>
Registered a new service (TCP port 0)
Registered a new session function (type 50)
Loaded module: $Id$
-<B>citserver: Can't bind: Address already in use
-ERROR: could not bind to TCP port 110.</b>
+<b>citserver: Can't bind: Address already in use<br>ERROR: could not bind to TCP port 110.</b>
Registered a new session function (type 0)
Loaded module: $Id$
Registered a new message function (type 202)Loaded module: $Id:
Loaded module: $Id$
Changing uid to 513
Starting housekeeper thread
-</PRE></FONT>
-
-<P>The lines emphasized in boldface in the above log output tell you that
-Citadel "can't bind" to various ports. The error 'address already in use'
-generally means that something else is already running on the requested
-port. Make SURE you've followed the above steps to remove sendmail/pop and
-start your Citadel server again.</p>
-
+</pre>
+</font>
+<p>The lines emphasized in boldface in the above log output tell you that
+Citadel "can't bind" to various ports. The error 'address already in use'
+generally means that something else is already running on the requested port.
+ Make SURE you've followed the above steps to remove sendmail/pop and start
+your Citadel server again.</p>
+
<h3><a name="citmail"></a>Using Citadel in conjunction with another MTA</h3>
-
-<P>Occationally it is not practical to remove a non-Citadel MTA on your
-host system. For example, you might have multiple groups of users, some of
-which are using Citadel and some of which are using a legacy Unix mail spool.
-This type of configuration is discouraged, but a tool is provided to allow
-it.</p>
-
-<P>The tool is called <tt>citmail</tt> and it is, quite simply, a local MDA
-(Mail Delivery Agent) which you can configure into your MTA for final
-delivery of incoming messages to Citadel users. A full discussion of the
-finer points of complex Sendmail configurations is beyond the scope of this
-document; however, you might want to visit
-<a href="http://pixel.citadel.org/citadel/docs/">Pixel BBS</a> where some
-useful HOWTO documents are provided.</p>
-
-<P>For outbound mail, you can either allow Citadel to perform deliveries
-directly (this won't affect your other mail system because outbound mail
-doesn't tie up port 25) or enter <tt>127.0.0.1</tt> as your smart-host, which
-will tell Citadel to forward all of its outbound mail to your other mail
-system.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Hosting_an_Internet_mailing_list"></a>Hosting an Internet mailing
+
+<p>Occationally it is not practical to remove a non-Citadel MTA on your host
+system. For example, you might have multiple groups of users, some of which
+are using Citadel and some of which are using a legacy Unix mail spool. This
+type of configuration is discouraged, but a tool is provided to allow it.</p>
+
+<p>The tool is called <tt>citmail</tt> and it is, quite simply, a local MDA
+(Mail Delivery Agent) which you can configure into your MTA for final delivery
+of incoming messages to Citadel users. A full discussion of the finer points
+of complex Sendmail configurations is beyond the scope of this document;
+however, you might want to visit <a
+ href="http://pixel.citadel.org/citadel/docs/">Pixel BBS</a> where some useful
+HOWTO documents are provided.</p>
+
+<p>For outbound mail, you can either allow Citadel to perform deliveries directly
+(this won't affect your other mail system because outbound mail doesn't tie
+up port 25) or enter <tt>127.0.0.1</tt> as your smart-host, which will tell
+Citadel to forward all of its outbound mail to your other mail system.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Hosting_an_Internet_mailing_list"></a>Hosting an Internet mailing
list</h3>
-It's fun. Try it.<br>
-<br>
-<hr width="100%" size="2"><br>
-<br>
-</div>
- <br>
+ FIXME It's fun. Try it.
+<hr width="100%" size="2">
+<center>
+<h2><a name="Building_or_joining_a_Citadel_network"></a>Building or joining
+a Citadel network</h2>
+</center>
+
+<h3><a name="Overview__"></a>Overview</h3>
+
+<p>If you are running Citadel as a BBS or other forum type of application,
+one way to 'keep the conversation going' is to share rooms with other Citadel
+systems. In a shared room, a message posted to the room is automatically
+propagated to every system on the network. It's kind of like a UseNet newsgroup,
+but without the spam.</p>
+
+<p>If you are using Citadel as the e-mail and groupware platform for a large
+organization, you can use its networking features to build a large network
+of Citadel servers which share content (think of rooms as public folders),
+redistribute e-mail throughout the organization, and integrate the global
+address book. It might make sense, for example, in a large corporation
+to give each department or location its own Citadel server. Thanks
+to Citadel's global address book features, you could still have all of the
+users share a single e-mail domain.</p>
+
+<p>Obviously, the first thing you have to do is find another Citadel to share
+rooms with, and make arrangements with them. The following Citadels are
+a good place to start:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>UNCENSORED! - <a href="http://uncensored.citadel.org">uncensored.citadel.org</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>The Dog Pound II - <a href="http://dogpound2.citadel.org">dogpound2.citadel.org</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>PixelBBS - <a href="http://pixel.citadel.org">pixel.citadel.org</a>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>You don't have to be a part of the citadel.org domain to participate in
+the public Citadel network, but the DNS service is provided free of charge
+by the Citadel community if you wish to do this.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Conventions_and_etiquette_when"></a>Conventions and etiquette
+when connecting to the public Citadel network</h3>
+
+<p>Before we get into the technical nitty gritty, there are two points of
+etiquette to keep in mind. The first thing to keep in mind is that the operator
+of any particular Citadel may not be willing to share some of his/her rooms.
+ Some sites are proud to offer exclusive content in certain areas. Chances
+are, if a room is already being shared on the network, it's available for
+anyone to share; if not, it can't hurt to ask -- but take care not to demand
+it of them. Ask if you may share the room instead of telling them that you
+wish to share the room. When looking at a <tt><b>K</b></tt>nown rooms list,
+network rooms are the ones ending in parentheses instead of angle brackets.
+ For example, <tt>Gateway)</tt> would be a network room, <tt>Lobby></tt>
+would not.</p>
+
+<p>The other point of etiquette to remember is that you should be making
+the arrangements in advance, and then set it up. It is extremely rude to
+simply begin networking with another Citadel, or unilaterally start sharing
+a new room, without first obtaining permission from its operator. Always
+ask first. Most Citadel operators are more than happy to network with you.
+ Also, if later on you decide to take your system down, please take the time
+to notify the operators of any other Citadels you network with, so they can
+unconfigure their end.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Getting_ready_to_join_the_network"></a>Getting ready to join
+the network</h3>
+
+<p>Ok, first things first. On a Citadel room sharing network, the first
+thing you need to know is your own system's node name. Presumably you set
+this up during installation, but if you want to change it you can do so using
+the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ysconfig <b>G</b>eneral</tt> command:</p>
+
+<pre>Lobby> . Aide System configuration General<br>Node name [uncnsrd]:<br>Fully qualified domain name [uncensored.citadel.org]:<br>Human readable node name [Uncensored]:<br></pre>
+
+<p>The "node name" is important, it's how the network identifies messages
+coming from your system. The "human readable node name" is simply a label;
+it shows up in messages coming from your system. "Fully qualified domain
+name" is your DNS name; it's used for routing messages on the Internet. In
+the above example, the node name is "uncnsrd".</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Defining_neighbor_nodes"></a>Defining neighbor nodes</h3>
+
+<p>The next thing you need to do is configure your neighbor node(s). You
+need to do this for each node you network with. Let's say you wanted to
+talk to a Citadel system called "frobozz". Use the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ysconfig
+<b>N</b>etwork</tt> command:</p>
+
+<pre>Lobby> . Aide System configuration Network<br>### Node Secret Host or IP Port#<br>--- ---------------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -----<br><A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit -> Add<br><br>Enter node name : frobozz<br>Enter shared secret: frotz<br>Enter host or IP : frobozz.magick.org<br>Enter port number : [504]: 504<br><br>### Node Secret Host or IP Port#<br>--- ---------------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -----<br> 1 frobozz frotz frobozz.magick.org 504<br><A>dd <D>elete <S>ave <Q>uit -> Save<br><br>Lobby><br></pre>
+
+<p>As you can see in the above example, you have to enter the Citadel node
+name, the DNS name or IP address of the server, and the port number the Citadel
+service is running on. The "shared secret" is a password to allow the two
+Citadel nodes to connect to each other to exchange network data. The password
+must be <i>identical</i> on both ends of the connection -- when the operator
+of the other Citadel node sets up the connection with your system, he/she
+must use the same password.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Sharing_rooms"></a>Sharing rooms</h3>
+
+<p>Now you're ready to share rooms. You have to do this for each room you
+want to share, and you have to do it from BOTH ENDS -- again, when you share
+a room with another Citadel, they must share it with you as well. Let's
+say you have a room called "Quiche Recipes>" and you want to share it
+with the node you set up above. First, edit the room and flag it as a network
+room:</p>
+
+<pre>Quiche Recipes> . Aide Edit this room<br>Room name [Quiche Recipes]:<br>Private room [No]: No<br>Preferred users only [No]: No<br>Read-only room [No]: No<br>Directory room [No]: No<br>Permanent room [No]: No<br>Network shared room [No]: Yes<br>Automatically make all messages anonymous [No]: No<br>Ask users whether to make messages anonymous [No]: No<br>Listing order [64]:<br>Room aide (or 'none') [none]:<br>Message expire policy (? for list) [0]:<br>Save changes (y/n)? Yes<br>Ok<br><br>Quiche Recipes)<br></pre>
+
+<p>Notice how the prompt changed? It was > before, but it's ) now. That
+means it's a network room. Now you can tell Citadel that you want to share
+the room with frobozz. Enter this command:</p>
+
+<pre>Quiche Recipes) . Aide Network room sharing<br></pre>
+
+<p>Your text editor will pop up (you <i>did</i> configure Citadel to use
+your favorite text editor, right?) with a screen that looks like this:</p>
+
+<pre># Configuration for room: Quiche Recipes<br># Nodes with which we share this room<br># Specify one per line.<br></pre>
+
+<p>All you have to do is enter the name of the other Citadel node (i.e. "frobozz"
+in our example) on a line by itself. As usual, lines starting with a "#"
+are comments. Just go to the end of the file, type "frobozz" (without the
+quotes), save the file... and you're done!</p>
+
+<p>At this point, you just sit back and enjoy. Your Citadel and the other
+one will begin polling each other at regular intervals (once per hour by
+default) and sharing messages.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Sending_mail"></a>Sending mail</h3>
+
+<p>You can send mail to any user on any node of your Citadel network. It
+may take a little while for your system to learn the entire node list, though,
+as this is done by watching incoming messages on the network and learning
+which nodes are out there.</p>
+
+<p>To send a private message, just enter <tt>user @ host</tt> as the recipient:</p>
+
+<pre>Mail> Enter message <br>Enter recipient: Some other user @ frobozz<br> Feb 11 2003 11:36pm from I. M. Me to Some other user @ frobozz<br>type message here...<br><br>Entry command (? for options) -><br></pre>
+
+<h3><a name="Changing_the_polling_interval"></a>Changing the polling interval</h3>
+
+<p>As previously mentioned, Citadel will poll other Citadel nodes for messages
+once per hour. If this is not an acceptable interval, you can change it using
+the <tt><b>.A</b>ide <b>S</b>ystem configuration <b>G</b>eneral</tt> command.
+ Enter this command and look for the option:</p>
+
+<pre>How often to run network jobs (in seconds) [3600]:<br></pre>
+
+<p>Change it to whatever you like. For example, 15 minutes is 900 seconds.
+ So if you changed the default value to 900, network polling would occur
+every 15 minutes.</p>
+
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