Hello everyone, I know it's been a while, but I am working on bringing my board back to something close to what it was. I have moved everything win winblows over to Linux Mint. The board itself is working fine, but I need to know how to set up BBSLink to operate under linux now.

I also have a suggestion for the next release of Mystic:

How about adding a built in DUC (Dynamic Update Client) for those that don't have a static IP, that would automatically update sites like noip when your IP address changes instead of having to run an external updating program. Should be something fairly simple to add in.

Like I said, my board is back, and need help with the doors now. Still don't know if I'm going to bring SFNet back up or not, but someone else took it over after I went down, I would love to join it. Just not sure about running it again.

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... The seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago

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Hello everyone, I know it's been a while, but I am working on bringing
my board back to something close to what it was. I have moved everything win winblows over to Linux Mint. The board itself is working fine, but I need to know how to set up BBSLink to operate under linux now.

First is to sign up, and the author will point you to the bash or python script you will use to launch the doors.

... The seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago

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need to know how to set up BBSLink to operate under linux now.

First is to sign up, and the author will point you to the bash or python script you will use to launch the doors.

I'm already a member, am even still listed in the BBS list on his site. I just need to know what I have to change on my end, especially in the doors config, to get the system to run the various bat files

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... Tech support is just a busy signal away

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Hey Chalupy!

On Fri, Feb 06 2026 18:20:03 -0600, you wrote:

I'm already a member, am even still listed in the BBS list on his
site. I just need to know what I have to change on my end,
especially in the doors config, to get the system to run the various
bat files

You shouldn't be using "bat" files on Linux. I would imagine there is probably some sort of Linux bash or python script you would need to run, instead.

Regards,
Nick

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I'm already a member, am even still listed in the BBS list on his site.
I just need to know what I have to change on my end, especially in the doors config, to get the system to run the various bat files

Here is an example.

Create a menu option in your doors menu and use DD and call on /usr/bin/python3 /home/bbs/doors/bbslink.py lord %#

And do this for each game...

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Create a menu option in your doors menu and use DD and call on /usr/bin/python3 /home/bbs/doors/bbslink.py lord %#

I don't have a bbslink.py

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
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Create a menu option in your doors menu and use DD and call on /usr/bin/python3 /home/bbs/doors/bbslink.py lord %#

I don't have a bbslink.py

Ask the author of bbslink for the download link.

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I don't have a bbslink.py

Ask the author of bbslink for the download link.

I got it, even though Mark had a small typo in the link he sent me. :) Almost all of the games are now working. Having trouble with MZK LORD and PimpWars. Have already reported the issues to Mark.

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...

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I don't have a bbslink.py

https://gist.github.com/denzuko/4e8faa980c299d7be176d4d83836ed5c

You must create a "bbslink.json" file in the Mystic DIR with this inside: (Yours BBSlink Passwords):

{ "syscode":"12345", "authcode":"xxxx1234xxxx", "schemecode":"xxxx1234xxxx" }

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I got it, even though Mark had a small typo in the link he sent me. :) Almost all of the games are now working. Having trouble with MZK LORD
and PimpWars. Have already reported the issues to Mark.

That's great to hear! Happy you got it going.

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Thanks for the response, Got it all sorted now.

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere

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How about adding a built in DUC (Dynamic Update Client) for those that
don't have a static IP, that would automatically update sites like noip

You can usually do this update with a wget/curl command. Put that in a script and make the BBS run it as a scheduled event. Mystic has that feature, right?


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You can usually do this update with a wget/curl command. Put that in a script and make the BBS run it as a scheduled event. Mystic has that feature, right?

Yes it does, but you are talking aver my head. :)

-Dallas Vinson, SysOp
-Legends of Yesteryear
- loy.hopto.org:2323

... What was the best thing before sliced bread?

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script and make the BBS run it as a scheduled event. Mystic has that feature, right?

Yes it does, but you are talking aver my head. :)

When you go to your dynamic DNS place, like no-ip.com, there'll be a help or howto page on remotely updating your IP. Yeah, you can use a special client, but you can also just make a web request. There are command line tools like 'wget' and 'curl' (for all OSes including Windows) that you can make the web requests with. The site will tell you what your unique URL is for updatingyour hostname, and you can put 'wget <url>' in a scheduled event. If it's too long, you put it in a batch file and call that from the scheduled event.


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