On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:57:03PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
> 	I've a gut hunch that NEWBIESERVER in include/config.h is not
> 	defined.  Simple test is to run lib/newbie and see if you get
> 	a message to that effect.  If you do then edit include/config.h
> 	and properly set NEWBIESERVER and any other settings you 
> 	wish, make clean && make && make install and test it.

Ah, sounds likely.  INSTALL.Newbie does not mention that.

Here's how I would change it:

diff -rN -u old-netrek-server/Vanilla/INSTALL.Newbie new-netrek-server/Vanilla/INSTALL.Newbie
--- old-netrek-server/Vanilla/INSTALL.Newbie    2010-08-31 10:07:55.000000000 +1000
+++ new-netrek-server/Vanilla/INSTALL.Newbie    2010-08-31 10:07:55.000000000 +1000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #      $Id: INSTALL.Newbie,v 1.2 2005/09/28 12:14:04 quozl Exp $
 Instructions for installing the Vanilla Netrek Server as a Newbie Server
 
-- install as described in INSTALL
+- install as described in INSTALL, except
+  - edit include/config.h.in and define NEWBIESERVER before configure
 - change etc/sysdef to include NEWBIE=1
 - change etc/syddef the following modes to 0 
        INL=0

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/