Dockerfile + several scripts to run FidoIP suite with Docker

Why?..

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 / FIDO \       _//|| _\   /
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Why FidoNet? Because it is cool and still more than alive.

Why Docker? FidoIP has a lot of irregularities like generating shell scripts with hardcoded configuration to /usr/local/bin. So it is difficult a bit to keep it in the box, but this Dockerfile tries to do so. Anyway we should remember here that all this charming oldschool stuff comes from DOS (it is quite ok to store user data in system directory then =) ) and OS/2, so it is very nice itself that it can be deployed in Unix-like environment.

Why 32 bit? Just because my server is x86 PC. You are free to derive it from 64 bit image and use fido_linux.64.sh instead of fido_linux.sh to build this software.

Point mode

To create configuration

1. $ ./fido-docker-build
2. $ ./fido-init and then inside container root shell (which will open):
   1. # cd fidoip-1.0.5
   2. # ./setup_config.bash and answer some questions
   3. # ./set_perm.sh fido

This will hopefully be simplified in the future.

After this, you will have your configuration in usr and home subfolders of current folder. You can make changes to them from outside when container is not running. For example, you can add export TERM=xterm or export TERM=rxvt-unicode to home/fido/.bashrc and so on. BTW correct terminal line in $TERM is very important for GoldEd to function properly.

usr and home subfolders contain your mail and settings, so they are likely subject of backup if you practice it =).

Default timezone for the image is Europe/Moscow. You can override this by running ./fido-docker-build with optional arg, e.g.: ./fido-docker-build --build-arg timezone=Asia/Novosibirsk.

To use configuration

Run $ ./fido-shell, then you will see container user shell

• $ rs to try to send/receive mail
• $ g to launch GoldEd

If you want to automate $ rs, ./fido-rs is at your service, it just launches rs in fido-shell without requirung STDIN to be a TTY.

Node mode

Have no experience in running full-featured nodes, so it is empty here