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1 sysadm 1.1 Installation
2     ==================
3 sysadm 1.12 To install LBBS on Linux (e.g. Debian 13, CentOS Stream 10), please perform the following steps:
4 sysadm 1.1
5     0) Prerequisite
6 sysadm 1.8 Follow README.md under [leafok_bbs](https://github.com/leafok/leafok_bbs) to initialize the database structure shared by both web version and telnet version.
7 sysadm 1.1 It is highly recommended to finish the configuration steps of web version first and make sure those features could work properly.
8    
9 sysadm 1.2 1) Common requirements
10 sysadm 1.7 gcc >= 14.2
11 sysadm 1.2 autoconf >= 2.68
12     automake >= 1.16
13 sysadm 1.7 php >= 8.2
14     mysql >= 8.4
15 sysadm 1.22 (For Debian / Ubuntu)
16     sudo apt-get install -y libssh-dev libsystemd-dev
17     (For CentOS / RHEL)
18     sudo dnf install -y libssh-devel systemd-devel
19 sysadm 1.21 (For MSYS2 with MinGW-w64 toolchain)
20 sysadm 1.24 pacman -S --needed msys2-runtime-devel libssh libssh-devel pcre2-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv mingw-w64-x86_64-libmariadbclient
21 sysadm 1.2
22 sysadm 1.7 3) Extract the source files from a tarball or export from GitHub
23 sysadm 1.1 Run the following command to set up the autoconf/automake environment,
24 sysadm 1.11 autoreconf --install --force
25 sysadm 1.1
26 sysadm 1.7 4) Compile source files
27     export LBBS_HOME_DIR=/usr/local/lbbs
28 sysadm 1.20 (For Linux)
29 sysadm 1.18 ./configure --prefix=$LBBS_HOME_DIR
30 sysadm 1.20 (For MSYS2 with MinGW-w64 toolchain)
31     ./configure --prefix=$LBBS_HOME_DIR --disable-shared PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/
32 sysadm 1.14 make
33 sysadm 1.1
34 sysadm 1.7 5) Create user and group
35 sysadm 1.1 sudo useradd bbs
36    
37 sysadm 1.7 6) Install binary files and data files
38 sysadm 1.5 sudo make install
39 sysadm 1.6 chown -R bbs:bbs $LBBS_HOME_DIR
40 sysadm 1.1
41 sysadm 1.7 7) Modify following configuration files
42 sysadm 1.1 Default configuration files is saved as *.default, you should rename them first.
43 sysadm 1.6 $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/bbsd.conf
44 sysadm 1.26 $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/bbsnet.conf
45 sysadm 1.6 $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/badwords.conf
46     $LBBS_HOME_DIR/utils/conf/db_conn.conf.php
47 sysadm 1.1
48 sysadm 1.16 8) Copy CA cert file of MySQL server to $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/ca_cert.pem
49    
50     9) Generate menu configuration file with section data by running the script
51 sysadm 1.6 sudo -u bbs php $LBBS_HOME_DIR/utils/bin/gen_section_menu.php
52     sudo -u bbs php $LBBS_HOME_DIR/utils/bin/gen_ex_list.php
53 sysadm 1.1
54 sysadm 1.25 10) Create SSH2 RSA / ED25519 certificate
55     ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "Your Server Name" -f $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/ssh_host_rsa_key
56     ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "Your Server Name" -f $LBBS_HOME_DIR/conf/ssh_host_ed25519_key
57 sysadm 1.1
58 sysadm 1.16 11) Startup
59 sysadm 1.6 sudo -u bbs $LBBS_HOME_DIR/bin/bbsd
60 sysadm 1.1
61 sysadm 1.16 12) (Optional) Set up systemd
62 sysadm 1.10 Create your own /usr/lib/systemd/system/lbbs.service from the sample at conf/lbbs.service, and make any change if necessary.
63 sysadm 1.1 Reload daemon config and start the service.
64 sysadm 1.3
65 sysadm 1.16 13) (Optional) Set up logrotate
66 sysadm 1.10 Create your own /etc/logrotate.d/lbbs from the sample at conf/lbbs.logrotate, and make any change if necessary.
67 sysadm 1.9 Restart logrotate service.
68    
69 sysadm 1.16 14) Cleanup on abnormal service termination
70 sysadm 1.5 In case of any unexpected failure or improper operation which results in abnormal termination of lbbs process, manual cleanup of shared memory / semaphore might be required before re-launch the process. Run the following command to check first:
71     sudo -u bbs ipcs
72     There should be no item owned by bbs. Otherwise, run the following command to cleanup:
73     sudo -u bbs ipcrm -a
74 sysadm 1.7

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