Re: DOSEMU via inetd (for BBS games without the BBS)

[Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:33:47AM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 
> >They could be run against vmodem (in traditional BBS mode)
> Yes, and documenting the ability to run
> them remotely would be interesting.

Take a look at http://forge.icequake.net/syncmods for an example of how
to run them via my Synchronet patch.  There is also a tarball with
scripts at the bottom to launch them without any special support from
the BBS.

> >Do you think it would be useful to generate some documentation for
> >running a local-mode-only
> local-mode-only? That doesn't sound like
> it will use the serial port by whatever
> means.

No, not at all.

> But there are many possibilities. For
> example, the origins of that discussion
> are coming from a question about telnetting
> to a different COM ports of an already
> running dosemu. This is not possible to
> acomplish with vmodem at all, and that is
> not documented.

Oh, so your idea here, is to run a BBS software that answers the modem
like the traditional style, and be able to telnet to the dosemu session,
and dosemu "answers" the incoming telnet like it would answer a ring on
the telephone?

> >Do you have a better idea to get telnetd to execute the DOSEMU wrapper
> >besides hacking telnetd or telnetlogin?
> Surely. I always have an ideas:)
> Seriously though, what just comes in a
> mind first: how about adding a special
> user with the login shell being a dosemu
> wrapper?

I did that, but then I also had confusion from people because they
couldn't remember the login, etc.  telnetd seems to have an option to
use something else as a telnet login program (besides telnetlogin), but
I didn't seem to get it to work.  I guess running it like you say is
better because the dosemu session is not running as root though. (I su
-c the door, but most people would probably forget to do that)

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253