Notice: Well, I have been using Protus
connection filters for a long time now.
At first, it was the version 3.1/1.2 for DosFBB515c
and, later, version 3.3 for Dos/WinFBB700. I have
found Protus as very useful utility because of its
implementation of automated BBS-to-BBS
forwarding protection, using MD2 algorithm.
One of the reasons to cover Protus
in this document is the fact that its author
haven't made a manual in English yet. I keep
trying to translate original manuals
from Spanish into English, but it is a hard work.
Any good 'Spanish-to-English'
translator is welcomed to contact me:
skoric at eunet dot yu
Protus offers several interesting features:
FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO: How to install an upgrade to a daemon version of LinFBBNextPreviousContents
Notice: Well, the main trouble I have discovered with 7.01f
daemon was the absence of Protus c_filter protection. As I
FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO: How to compile LinFBB's executable filesNextPreviousContents
Notice: Until recently, I preferred to download "factory-made"
executables in RPM format (something like ZIP in MS Windows world).
After getting a RPM package, a click on it activates the program
that unpack and install its content. Well, it is great whenever
your RPM has been "manufactured" for the very similar distribution
of Linux you have. If not ...
Well, I have already had the package
xfbb-7.04-2.i386.rpm (07 August 2001), that was
running OK under RH 6.2 distro. And not only that. Its
"packer", Jose HI8GN, has explained that this package
was actually compiled and linked with utilities that came
with RH 6.2 - so under that distribution should be no
problems at all.
One day I finally decided to abandon another 4-5 year old
version of an X11 LinFBB application that I knew it would
not run under Red Hat Linux newer than 6.2 distribution.
I decided to stay with LinFBB's daemon only, so it was also the
right time to upgrade the Linux system itself. Another handy
installation that I had, was RH 7.1 and I used it. After
finishing that task, I rushed to re-install the RPM package
mentioned above (just to test if it would eventually work), but as
expected it didn't want to run.
I had no choice but to browse web sites in order to find a RPM
package that would fit my RH 7.1 distribution. Unfortunately,
it looked that there was no one recompiled LinFBB RPM for 7.1
RedHat version. The only solution was to try with tarballs.
So, what I have downloaded from
www.f6fbb.org/versions.html, was xd704h-src.tgz
archive.
So far - so good. Well, folks, I am not very good of "deepest"
secrets of Linux, so I was not sure where might be the best
place to unpack the archive. According the readme
file, it might be a "fbbsrc" directory, so I considered that
/usr/src would be the best location to copy archive's
fbbsrc.704h directory tree.
Well, the fbbsrc.704h directory consists of 12 files and 7
subdirectories, one of which is src subdirectory. As the
readme suggested a user to "goto fbbsrc/src" directory,
I concluded that /usr/src/fbbsrc.704h/src was the right place.
The readme also suggested to "update the variables" at
the beginning of Makefile files, but I did not do that
because I was not sure what exactly should be put in there. So I have
just left the file(s) intact.
The next task was to run make command from the shell
and it took half a minute to be finished. The results were several
xfbb executable files that I quickly moved to
/usr/sbin directory. BTW, some people rather suggest to run
make install (instead of make), in order to avoid
multiple copying of compiled executables, but I found that way as not
functional.
Soon after, I tried to activate xfbbd - the new LinFBB's
daemon and it seemed to work without visible difficulties.
Using a home LAN including a Windows laptop, I also started fbbW
- a LinFBB Windows client. It recognized the daemon in a second
and I've only noticed that there was no Protus password utility running.
According the readme, the next task should be to "compile
the xfbbC client". That operation should be done from a place
called "fbbsrc/client" but the only available directory under
/usr/src/fbbsrc.704h/src was X11.
After clicking on its icon, I recognized the second one file
named Makefile (they have mentioned "updating" of
both Makefile files, so I hoped to reach the proper
place once again, regardless of two unfamiliar paths). Besides that,
they have also suggested to use "at least the version 2.1.37b of
ax25-utils" and I found not to have something like that
installed (in the case they have possibly meant of a suit
of libax25, ax25apps and ax25tool - than i
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