• Mystic on Linux

    From Mike Dippel@3:712/1321.5 to ALL on Sun Sep 4 01:00:58 2022
    My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for the Raspberry
    Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

    Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this work? I was
    looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
    this package look like it would work?

    Thanks,
    Mike Dippel

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Mike Dippel on Sun Sep 4 17:24:54 2022
    On 04 Sep 2022 at 01:00a, Mike Dippel pondered and said...

    My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon
    provided for the Raspberry
    Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

    I caveat this advice with the fact that I am not a Linux expert but yeah the Raspberry Pi runs an OS now called Raspberry Pi OS which is based (I believe) off Debian Linux. So the info I had put up was all couched for an OS that shared Linux conventions e.g. /path/to/file instead of c:\path\to\file etc.

    Best, Paul

    avon@bbs.nz / bbs.nz / fsxnet.nz

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664.1 to Mike Dippel on Sun Sep 4 07:03:20 2022
    *** Quoting Mike Dippel from a message to ALL ***

    My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon
    provided for the Raspberry Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure
    what O/S the Pi runs on.

    I used Avon's videos to set Mystic up on a Pi and then use that same
    knowledge to set it up on Ubuntu. Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS) is based on Debian the same as Ubuntu is.

    Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access,
    will this work?

    Yes, that should work as well. I've had Mystic running in a VPS at Lunanode with no issues. Running it at a VPS (at the time) also allowed me to setup IPv6 access as my ISP didn't offer IPv6 back then.

    The only weird thing to snag me up on the VPS was getting cryptlib to work, I had to go back to an older version of cryptlib, though that may have just
    been me fat fingering something. Follow these instructions and you should be good:

    http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=cryptlib


    Jay

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  • From Mike Dippel@3:712/1321.5 to Paul Hayton on Mon Sep 5 00:06:12 2022
    On 9/4/2022 5:12 PM, Paul Hayton wrote to Mike Dippel:


    My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for the Raspberry
    Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

    I caveat this advice with the fact that I am not a Linux expert but yeah the Raspberry Pi runs an OS now called Raspberry Pi OS which is based (I believe)
    off Debian Linux. So the info I had put up was all couched for an OS that shared Linux conventions e.g. /path/to/file instead of c:\path\to\file etc.

    Best, Paul

    Many thanks.

    Mike

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18.1 to Mike Dippel on Tue Sep 6 21:49:34 2022
    My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for
    the Raspberry
    Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

    The Pi runs Linux. The most common distribution is Raspbian, which is
    the Pi version of Debian.


    Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this work? I was
    looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
    this package look like it would work?

    http://www.interserver.net is what I use for running my BBSes and my
    personal email server on 2 Windows Server VPSes and 1 Debian Linux VPS.
    Windows VPS service with them is $10/month and Linux VPS with them is
    $6/month.

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  • From Mike Dippel@3:712/1321.5 to ROBERT WOLFE on Wed Sep 7 13:19:32 2022
    On 9/6/2022 9:53 PM, Robert Wolfe wrote to Mike Dippel:


    The Pi runs Linux. The most common distribution is Raspbian, which is
    the Pi version of Debian.


    Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this
    work? I was
    looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
    this package look like it would work?

    http://www.interserver.net is what I use for running my BBSes and my personal email server on 2 Windows Server VPSes and 1 Debian Linux VPS. Windows VPS service with them is $10/month and Linux VPS with them is $6/month.

    Thanks. I can get Linux VPS for $6.00 a month as well using my own hosting company.
    Just trying to figure out which is better for me: Windows or Linux. Currently it is
    running fine on a Windows server.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18.1 to Mike Dippel on Thu Sep 8 19:27:24 2022

    Thanks. I can get Linux VPS for $6.00 a month as well using my own hosting company.
    Just trying to figure out which is better for me: Windows or Linux. Currently
    it is
    running fine on a Windows server.

    Very cool. You know what they say. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)
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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18.1 to Christian Sacks on Fri Sep 9 16:13:52 2022
    On 9/9/2022 12:34 PM, Christian Sacks wrote to Robert Wolfe:

    Very cool. You know what they say. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)

    I think the actual phrase is; "If it ain't Windows, don't need to fix it"... or
    something like that :P

    LMAO! HAHA! Good one! :)

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