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  • Question about Mystic Bulletins

    From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to All on Thu Jan 21 15:50:19 2021
    Hi all, i had a question....
    does anyone know how to create a new bulletin for the section of mystic which has the bulletin area? i assume it is simular to how we post through echomail? if not, can some one share with me how to go about creating a new bulletin post?

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)
  • From jayb@21:1/168 to gcubebuddy on Mon Jan 25 10:24:25 2021
    Hey gcubebuddy,

    Just wondering if you ever got an answer to this question? I've tried to create new ones, and modify existing - and while I can modify the existing using the ASCI editor, no items don't appear in the bulletins menu, and existing items' subjects don't update. I figure this is the same issue
    you're experiencing?

    Thanks,
    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Technically BBS (21:1/168)
  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to jayb on Fri Jan 29 16:51:02 2021
    Hi,
    i havent had the change to mess with it alot yet.
    i just did a massive upgrade to the storage on my server.
    i migrated from 4 tb of storage to 24 tb of storage. :-)
    I am having to rebuild my VMS. but i took backups of my Mystic BBS dir. and
    am now setting it back up. still setting up my DNS settings for freedns.org
    to point to my server again. i was desperatly running out of space on my proxmox host. i am running both a plex video server and BBS as seperate VMs
    in ProxMox.




    On 25 Jan 2021, jayb said the following...

    Hey gcubebuddy,

    Just wondering if you ever got an answer to this question? I've tried to create new ones, and modify existing - and while I can modify the
    existing using the ASCI editor, no items don't appear in the bulletins menu, and existing items' subjects don't update. I figure this is the same issue you're experiencing?

    Thanks,
    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Technically BBS (21:1/168)

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)
  • From jayb@21:1/168 to gcubebuddy on Fri Jan 29 18:36:54 2021
    I'm jealous of your disk space lol I bought a budget NAS, and have two raid1 arrays (4TB and 3TB) which is enough for my needs.. but I always want more :D

    I just moved my mystic server to a $5/mo Linode to remove the hastle of
    having to host it at home. There are some I suppose that would say that defeats some purpose, but to me it's just easier (for as long as I can spare $5/mo) :)

    Good luck with the rest of your builds. If you get back around to playing
    with the bulletins, I'd be glad to tinker along with you. Likewise if I
    figure anything out I'll drop you a line.

    Jay

    ~JayB
    bbs.billingham.ca:2222/2323

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Technically BBS (21:1/168)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to jayb on Sat Jan 30 10:08:39 2021
    Really to all of you trying to make Bulletins...

    I make Bulletins by editing what's there already. I'm using vi, but anything that will leave things as they are including special characters will work.
    Just copy bullet1.asc to bullet3.asc and edit the subject line on down. That makes a bullet3, then to get it in to the menu edit bulletin.asc which is the menu file for Bulletins and add the new bullet3.asc in.

    That is how I've always done it after looking through the code that made it.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Sat Jan 30 14:15:17 2021
    Adding bulletins:

    You can add numbered bulletins pretty easy with Mystic using Mystic-DOS and
    the ansi editor (a what you see is what you get editor). Use the sysop menu
    to add Mystic-DOS to the main menu:
    /* to enter sysop menu, # to edit it (need to put in sysop password)
    select default, go down to main (enter), then go down to the bottom of the
    menu / for add and I for Insert. Next enter to edit the new (Q) entry for Mystic-DOS. I change the 10Q to 12/D and then the 03Quit to Main Menu to 12Mystic-DOS
    Change the Hot Key to /D, Access String to s255 and hit tab to edit the action Up one, enter, change the Command to (down arrow to) *D and enter it. Change Access again to s255 and ESC, ESC, ESC Save changes (YES). Q to get to main. Nows there is /D Mystic-DOS, hit it and type the password in.
    cd themes/default/text
    copy bullet2.asc bullet3.asc
    ansi bullet3.asc
    Edit it up (control v toggles insert so you can add text, control y to delete lines. ESC s to save when finished and ESC q to quit,
    ansi bulletin.asc
    add in ( 3 ) Bulletin3 Title
    ESC s to save when finished and ESC q to quit, exit to exit Mystic-DOS and then S to check out the new bulletin. You can add 0, and 3-9 without issues. Then you need to go to two digit numbers ;)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)
  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to jayb on Tue Feb 23 17:28:07 2021
    Hi, still here lol.
    sorry i have been MIA for the past 2 weeks. i've been "borrowing" movies to
    put on my plex server lol.

    ya the original server i was running proxmox / mystic BBS on, was a Dell
    R710. However when i bought the upgrade drives 8tb a peice, i found that the raid card doesnt read any disk above 4tb. i think it even limits the raid to
    4 tb... if i am not mistaken.
    that was really disapointing to say the least. however, i put all the drives
    in my old 8 core mac pro. i threw proxmox on it and ubuntu VMs.
    it seems to be running fine now.
    however i do wish i could stil use the Dell server as it has 120gigs of ram
    in it, my mac pro only has 32 gigs....


    On 29 Jan 2021, jayb said the following...

    I'm jealous of your disk space lol I bought a budget NAS, and have two raid1 arrays (4TB and 3TB) which is enough for my needs.. but I always want more :D

    I just moved my mystic server to a $5/mo Linode to remove the hastle of having to host it at home. There are some I suppose that would say that defeats some purpose, but to me it's just easier (for as long as I can spare $5/mo) :)

    Good luck with the rest of your builds. If you get back around to playing with the bulletins, I'd be glad to tinker along with you. Likewise if I figure anything out I'll drop you a line.

    Jay

    ~JayB
    bbs.billingham.ca:2222/2323

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Technically BBS (21:1/168)

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)