Subj : Posting a message with messagebase open
To   : Psi-Jack
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Jul 12 2015 01:50 pm

  Re: Posting a message with messagebase open
  By: Psi-Jack to Nightfox on Sun Jul 12 2015 16:26:53

 Ps> I'm currently testing an idea of actually running Synchronet on CentOS 7,
 Ps> and so far, after grinding thoroughly through building custom RPMs for
 Ps> DOSEMU, BinkD, and Husky Tools, the main software needed for my full
 Ps> setup, I am actually coming up with astonishing results.

That's cool.  CentOS is definitely a fairly good & stable server OS (since it's
based on RedHat).  I'm currently running Mint Linux on my BBS machine (although
my BBS is running in a Windows XP VM), but I've considered possibly switching
my BBS over to Linux at some point.  Mint Linux seems to work well for
Synchronet so far, but I had considered CentOS too.

 Ps> I even went above and beyond and made a DOS door maintenance script that
 Ps> would parallel run through each door that was configured in the script to
 Ps> allow running 2+ dosemu sessions at the same time one for each door, and
 Ps> tracking of each one. 

 Ps> Unfortunately the one limitation was: I ended up using 4DOS 8.00
 Ps> (Freeware), to get proper logging done. I could never get FreeDOS's
 Ps> command.com to allow me to capture the date and time into a variable to
 Ps> output to a logfile, but this allows me now to track that each door
 Ps> actually ran to completion, and not aborted out in a DOSEMU crash. :D

I'm not sure I'd consider 4DOS a limitation, since (I believe) it's fully
compatible with command.com.  It's cool to hear that 4DOS is now freeware.  I
used to use 4DOS in the early 90s, when DOS was my primary OS, and I thought it
provided some useful enhancements over the command.com included with MS-DOS.

Nightfox

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