Backtalk Installation Guide

Part VB: Installation with Unix Accounts

Version 1.3.30

© 1996-2003 Jan Wolter, Steve Weiss

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If you are installing a system using Backtalk accounts, read the other version of this page.

If you are upgrading a previous Backtalk installation:

  1. Backup Your Old Files:
    The install scripts will not save your old customizations. You should make a backup of your old installation. The following files are especially likely to have been customized on your site, and may be especially important to save:
     
        script/config.bt
        script/pistachio/config.bt
        script/abalone/config.bt

     
  2. Don't run 'make install-bbs'.
    This may mess up all your existing conferences.

If you already have Picospan or Yapp installed on your system, don't do 'make install-bbs'. We will be using Picospan or Yapp's bbs directory and we don't want to reinitialize it.

To install Backtalk, run the following commands as root:

 
         make install-binaries
         make install-scripts
         # if you want to make a new conference directory:
         make install-bbs
         # first time installs
         make install-users
 

The "install-users" step just constructs the .htaccess files in the cgi-bin directories. It obviously doesn't really construct any kind of users database, since your system is providing that.


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