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Merge pull request #135 from danger89/patch-4 

Add some extra begginers info
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@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ Below is an _example_ configuration. It is recommended that you at least **start
./main.js
```
Read the Points of Interest below for more info. Also check-out all the other documentation files in the [docs](.) directory.
## Points of Interest
* **The first user you create via register/applying (user ID = 1) will be automatically be added to the `sysops` group. And thus becomes SysOp.** (aka root)
* Default port for Telnet is 8888 and for SSH 8889
* Note that on *nix systems port such as telnet/23 are privileged (e.g. require root). See [this SO article](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16573668/best-practices-when-running-node-js-with-port-80-ubuntu-linode) for some tips on using these ports on your system if desired.
* All data is stored by default in Sqlite3 database files, within the `db` sub folder. Including user data, messages, system logs and file meta data.
* You may want to tail the logfile with Bunyan. See Monitoring Logs below.
## Monitoring Logs
Logs are produced by Bunyan which outputs each entry as a JSON object. To tail logs in a colorized and pretty pretty format, issue the following command:
@ -114,12 +123,6 @@ Logs are produced by Bunyan which outputs each entry as a JSON object. To tail l
ENiGMA½ does not produce much to standard out. See below for tailing the log file to see what's going on.
## Points of Interest
* Default ports are 8888 (Telnet) and 8889 (SSH)
* Note that on *nix systems port such as telnet/23 are privileged (e.g. require root). See [this SO article](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16573668/best-practices-when-running-node-js-with-port-80-ubuntu-linode) for some tips on using these ports on your system if desired.
* **The first user you create via applying is the SysOp** (aka root)
* You may want to tail the logfile with Bunyan. See Monitoring Logs above.
# Advanced Installation
If you've become convinced you would like a "production" BBS running ENiGMA½ a more advanced installation may be in order.