Good afternoon everyone!

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 laying around and I have installed Mystic with no issues. I signed up with bbslink and have been attempting to launch the .sh script to no avail. I was wondering if one of you had any suggesstions, guidance, or instructions to get this setup accordingly? I appreciate your time!

Charon
riverstyx.ddns.net:2323

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On 20 May 2023, Charon said the following...

Good afternoon everyone!

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 laying around and I have installed Mystic with no issues. I signed up with bbslink and have been attempting to launch the .sh script to no avail. I was wondering if one of you had any suggesstions, guidance, or instructions to get this setup accordingly?
I appreciate your time!

Charon
riverstyx.ddns.net:2323

Can you provide more information to help troubleshoot the issues?

I'm assuming that you entered the appropriate authentication data into the script where required.

Are you running Raspian or something else as your operating system?

What, if any, error messages are you getting?

Are the required ports open through your firewall?

These are just some questions off the top of my head to get things rolling. I'm




























































sure others will pipe in!

ogg
Sysop, Altair IV BBS
altairiv.ddns.net:2323

... Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

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On 20 May 2023, Charon said the following...

I signed up with bbslink and have been attempting to launch the .sh Ch>

script to no avail.

Make sure you have telnet installed:

sudo apt install telnet


Jay

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I am running Raspian. I have copied the python and bash script from the bbslink sysop site and getting an error with the python script SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean Print ("ERROR! Usage: bbslink.py ")?. The bash script gives an error at line 125: syntax error: unexpected end of file.

Charon
riverstyx.ddns.net

Thank you all for any guidance or clarification.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Sent from Al's Geek Lab 1337:2/104 (1337:2/104)

I am running Raspian. I have copied the python and bash script from the bbslink sysop site and getting an error with the python script SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean
Print ("ERROR! Usage: bbslink.py ")?. The bash script gives an error
at line 125: syntax error: unexpected end of file.

Charon

I ended up just running bbslink.py under the door menu. I had many issues with



























































Mystic and python. I ended up just using python2 for everything. I don't remember what version Raspian defaults to. Check with "python -V" Also, I had to enable the rlogin server in order to call out.

If you want, I could put my copy of bbslink.py on my board so you could download it or drop me a netmail and give me an email address I can send it to.

Let me know!

ogg
Sysop, Altair IV BBS
altairiv.ddns.net:2323

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Altair IV BBS (1337:3/172)

Make sure you have telnet installed:

sudo apt install telnet

Ohhhh - I also remember another issue, depending on what (debian..) OS the user
























































is using. You sometimes need to LOOK at the output of 'telnet' b/c some debian distros actually just install 'ssh' to the telnet command - in this case, I had
























































to build telnet externally...



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Make sure you have telnet installed:

Ohhhh - I also remember another issue, depending on what (debian..) OS
the user is using. You sometimes need to LOOK at the output of 'telnet' b/c some debian distros actually just install 'ssh' to the telnet
command - in this case, I had to build telnet externally...

I've always wondered why telnet is not installed by default? Security maybe?

... History repeats itself because nobody listens

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64)
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Ohhhh - I also remember another issue, depending on what (debian..) O the user is using. You sometimes need to LOOK at the output of 'telne b/c some debian distros actually just install 'ssh' to the telnet command - in this case, I had to build telnet externally...

I've always wondered why telnet is not installed by default? Security maybe?

Yea, I think thats it exactly. TELNET is plain text and really not a way you'd want to do anything important or secure, ever - let alone in 2023. Some sysOps,




























even just on the BBSes, request users use SSH after they're account is created - its way smarter, but I don't place too much worry in the BBS machine; I just try to secure it within my network.



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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (1337:3/129)

I've always wondered why telnet is not installed by default? Security maybe?

Yeah, probably, that would be my guess. It's a fairly unused client as well other than a few specific areas. What is lame, though, is the amount of IOT devices that listen for inbound telnet connections. Yowza.

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