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# LBBS - Classical terminal server of LeafOK BBS
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Copyright (C) 2004-2025 by Leaflet
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Email : leaflet@leafok.com
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Introduction
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This software (named as LBBS) aims to providing a telnet-based interface for a pure web-based BBS (named as LeafOK BBS).
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LeafOK BBS is a powerful BBS system, not only providing almost every function that a standard BBS should have, but also giving many features other BBS hasn't complemented yet.
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As an open source project, LeafOK BBS use MySQL as its major data depository, and PHP as its developing language. With MySQL and PHP, LeafOK BBS becomes a platform-independent system. It can works stably on many popular Web Servers such as Apache and IIS.
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However, as a pure web-based BBS, its shortage is inevitable. For LeafOK BBS uses Browser/Server as its architecture, it will cause more data traffic between Users and Server than telnet-based BBS, and its response is a little slower than telnet-based BBS.
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In order to conquer these shortage, a new project was launched. LBBS is a telnet-based BBS which is full compatible with LeafOK BBS. It also uses MySQL as its data repository, and keep coherence with the data structure of LeafOK BBS. LBBS is designed to be a system running on Linux, with GNU C as its developing language.
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Thank you for using this software. If you meet any bugs or have any suggestion, please tell me.
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System Requirement
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Operation System: Linux
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Software:
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1) GNU C Compiler
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2) PHP ( Version >= 8.2 )
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3) MySQL database ( Version >= 8.4 )
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Quick Installation
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To install LBBS quickly, please do the following steps:
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0) Prerequisite
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Follow README.md under https://github.com/leafok88/leafok_bbs to initialize the database structure shared by both web version and telnet version. It is highly recommended to finish the configuration steps of web version first and make sure those features could work properly.
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1) Extract the source files from a tarball or export from GitHub
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Run the following command to set up the autoconf/automake environment,
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sh ./autogen.sh
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and fix any error if exists.
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2) Compile source files
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lbbs
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make
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3) Create user and group
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sudo useradd bbs
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4) Install binary files and data files
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sudo make install
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5) Modify following configuration files
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Default configuration files is saved as *.default, you should rename them first.
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/usr/local/lbbs/conf/bbsd.conf
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/usr/local/lbbs/utils/conf/db_conn.inc.php
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6) Generate menu configuration file with section data by running the script
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sudo -u bbs php /usr/local/lbbs/utils/bin/gen_section_menu.php
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7) Create or copy SSH2 RSA certificate into /usr/local/lbbs/conf
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ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "Your Server Name" -f ssh_host_rsa_key
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8) Startup
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sudo /usr/local/lbbs/bin/bbsd
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9) Set up systemd
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Create your own /usr/lib/systemd/system/lbbs.service from the sample at conf/lbbs.service.default, and make any change if necessary. Please note that the startup argument "-f" with bbsd should be used in systemd notify mode.
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Run the following bash command to startup the service:
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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
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sudo systemctl start lbbs
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