From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Underwood Subject: Re: DOSEMU via inetd (for BBS games without the BBS) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:08:14 -0500 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031004220814.GJ2972@dbz.icequake.net> References: <3F7F2EAB.7090305@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F7F2EAB.7090305@yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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, , icq=10317253