ENiGMA BBS

Docker container that runs ENiGMA½ BBS Software. All required packages for ENiGMA½ to run successfully are included, and pm2-docker is used to manage the Node.js process.

Quick Start

This container image is available from the Docker Hub.

Assuming that you have Docker installed, run the following command:

docker run -d \
  -p 8888:8888 \
  davestephens/enigma-bbs

As no config has been supplied, the container will use a basic one so that it starts successfully. ENiGMA½ listens via telnet on port 8888. Connect and try it out!

A Proper Setup

So you've decided ENiGMA½ (and Docker) is for you, and you want a "proper" setup. There are a few things you need to do:

1. Create a directory on your Docker host machine to store ENiGMA½ data, e.g. ~/my_sweet_bbs. Within that, create directories for the mountable volumes - art, config, db, filebase, logs, mail and mods.

2. Create a config.hjson, menu.hjson and prompt.hjson files within the config directory you created. See the ENiGMA½ docs for available options.

3. Copy any customisations such as themes and mods, to the mods directory.

   You should end up with a structure something like the following:

   ├── config
   │   ├── config.hjson
   │   ├── my_menus.hjson
   │   └── my_prompts.hjson
   ├── db
   ├── filebase
   ├── logs
   ├── mail
   ├── mods
   │   └── awesome_mod
   └── art
       ├── general
       └── themes
           └── sick_theme
   

4. Start the container:

   docker run -d \
       -p 8888:8888 \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/art:/enigma-bbs/art \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/config:/enigma-bbs/config \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/db:/enigma-bbs/db \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/filebase:/enigma-bbs/filebase \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/logs:/enigma-bbs/logs \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/filebase:/enigma-bbs/filebase \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/mods:/enigma-bbs/mods \
       -v ~/my_sweet_bbs/mail:/mail \
       davestephens/enigma-bbs

Volumes

The following volumes are mountable:

Volume	Usage
/enigma-bbs/art	Art, themes, etc
/enigma-bbs/config	Config such as config.hjson, menu.hjson, prompt.hjson, SSL certs etc
/enigma-bbs/db	ENiGMA databases
/enigma-bbs/filebase	Filebase
/enigma-bbs/logs	Logs
/enigma-bbs/mods	ENiGMA mods
/mail	FTN mail (for use with an external mailer)

TODO

• Any more space optimisations?
• Install packages for mods on container init

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.