This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure a number of general settings that apply to the overall BBS system. There are areas here that you will want to update from their default settings.

This example screen is from a Windows based system and displays the standard 'out of the box' settings that ship with the default installation.

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    BBS Name        │ New Mystic BBS            Local Codepage │ CP437
    BBS Location    │                           Chat Logging   │ No
    Sysop Name      │ Sysop Name Here           Hours Start    │ 1
    Sysop Password  │ *****                     Hours End      │ 15
    System Password │                           Chat Feedback  │ Yes
    Sysop ACS       │ s255                      Screen Cols    │ 80
    Feedback To     │ Sysop Name Here           Screen Size    │ 24
    Start Menu      │ prelogin                  Inactivity     │ 300
    QWK Net Menu    │ qwknetwork                Disable Time   │ No
    Default Theme   │ default
    Config Theme    │ 3D ANSI
    Python2 Library │
    Python3 Library │
  
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Your BBS name should be updated here. It's used in several places in Mystic BBS and something you want to change early on it your setup.

The location of your BBS if you wish to add it.

Change this to reflect the user account you have created for your Sysop account.

Change this from the default setting! It's used when you access any Sysop menu command from within the BBS. Before you are allowed to run the menu command you must first enter this password in.

If entered all users logging in to your BBS will need to enter this password before being presented with the login prompt. It's useful to set this if you run a closed system or need to limit access quickly for a period of time.

The Access Control Strings required by a user of the system to gain access to Sysop features when logged in to the BBS.

When a user sends feedback to the Sysop which user name should it be sent to? Usually it's the same name you have stated as the Sysop but it does not have to be.

When a user logs in to the BBS this is the default menu that is loaded and displayed first.

Set the QWK menu for QWK network users.

This is the default theme that user accounts are assigned when they sign up at your Mystic BBS.

Theme to use for the Mystic BBS Configuration System.

Mystic supports Python 2 and Python 3. These settings allow you to set the location/name of the Python library that Mystic will try to load. Try blank values first but if this does not work then you must set the value to your installed Python location/library.

For example in Linux you could search for the library like this: “sudo find /usr -name 'libpython2.7*.so*' This should give you the location of your Python 2.7 library. If you do not have Python 2.7 installed then you can usually install it via a package manager. For Ubuntu 20.04 for example you can do: sudo apt install libpython2.7

Repeat the same process for the Python 3 as well. In Windows the DLL files are usually python27.dll and python3x.dll where x is the version and the installation typically puts them in your C:\WINDOWS folder tree somewhere.

As always the installed bit version of Python must match the installed version of Mystic. For example 64-bit Windows needs 64-bit Python.

Define the codepage to use for UI and local logins.

Should Mystic BBS create a logging text file of the conversations held between the Sysop and a user when the Sysop breaks in to chat with them?

Start hour that paging the Sysop is allowed.

End hour that paging the Sysop is allowed. Outside this time the 'Page Sysop for Chat' menu command (GP) will default to a 'sysop is unavailable' response.

Enable the user to send BBS email to the Sysop when paging the Sysop has failed or the user has attempted to page the Sysop outside of paging hours.

Defines the default number of columns to display on a users screen.

Defines the default number of lines to display on a users screen.

The number of seconds of inactivity that must occur before a user is disconnected due to inactivity. If you don't want to use this feature set it to 0 to disable it.

This allows you to globally disable the time per day system.