• Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows

    From Exciter@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Sun Sep 27 22:28:38 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Mon Sep 14 2020 11:07 pm

    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Mon Sep 14 2020 08:47 pm

    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Sun Sep 13 2020 07:12 pm

    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Sun Sep 13 2020 11:59 am

    I did, and then I deleted and this was the error. It re-created the temp directory.

    Okay, so you're all good now?

    No. That was the error of running sbbs.exe after I had let it create it's own temp directory.

    Perhaps a permissions issue then? Are you logging in as different users and creating directories or something?

    Negative. I close down synch, back it up, follow the instructions for upgrading. And just get the errors.

    Are you also running Windows XP? If yes, that should be fixed by tomorrow's daily build.

    Yes I am running xp.

    Did you try today's dev build?


    digital man

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    I now have 3.18b installed and just have a few problems. I watched your video on the new version and am not finding the 1 line in sbbs.ini to enable echickens web interface. Also, my board doesn't show up in sbbsimsg.lst even though I'm listed in the sbbs systems on VERT and on my board.
    One other thing, is it possible if running synch as a service to have doors open non-minimized when launched?
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Exciter on Mon Sep 28 01:38:18 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Sun Sep 27 2020 10:28 pm

    I now have 3.18b installed and just have a few problems. I watched your video on the new version and am not finding the 1 line in sbbs.ini to enable echickens web interface.

    It's the "Root" key in the [web] section. Set it to "../web/root" for the Legacy/Runemaster Web UI. Set it to "../webv4/root" for the ecwebv4.

    Also, my board doesn't show up in
    sbbsimsg.lst even though I'm listed in the sbbs systems on VERT and on my board.

    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    One other thing, is it possible if running synch as a service to have doors open non-minimized when launched?

    Yes, add XTRN_MINIMIZED to the Options list of [BBS] Options in the ctrl/sbbs.ini file. In fact, that's enabled by default:

    Options = XTRN_MINIMIZED | ALLOW_RLOGIN | ALLOW_SSH

    digital man

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  • From Exciter@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Sep 28 19:19:25 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Sun Sep 27 2020 10:28 pm

    I now have 3.18b installed and just have a few problems. I watched your video on the new version and am not finding the 1 line in sbbs.ini to enable echickens web interface.

    It's the "Root" key in the [web] section. Set it to "../web/root" for the Legacy/Runemaster Web UI. Set it to "../webv4/root" for the ecwebv4.

    Yeah I did that. All I get is the 404 error. Do I need to change server-side js file extension to .xjs?


    Also, my board doesn't show up in
    sbbsimsg.lst even though I'm listed in the sbbs systems on VERT and on my board.

    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    Pretty sure I have those requirements. And your scan ports from that page shows I have 11 & 18 open.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Exciter on Mon Sep 28 21:13:07 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Mon Sep 28 2020 07:19 pm

    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Sun Sep 27 2020 10:28 pm

    I now have 3.18b installed and just have a few problems. I watched your video on the new version and am not finding the 1 line in sbbs.ini to enable echickens web interface.

    It's the "Root" key in the [web] section. Set it to "../web/root" for the Legacy/Runemaster Web UI. Set it to "../webv4/root" for the ecwebv4.

    Yeah I did that. All I get is the 404 error. Do I need to change server-side js file extension to .xjs?

    No. But maybe you didn't copy or symlink the files in the .example sub-directories?

    Also, my board doesn't show up in
    sbbsimsg.lst even though I'm listed in the sbbs systems on VERT and on my board.

    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    Pretty sure I have those requirements. And your scan ports from that page shows I have 11 & 18 open.

    TCP or UDP?

    According to sbbslist.json:

    "last_success": {
    "on": "2020-09-28T07:03:08.741Z",
    "result": "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18",
    "stopcause": "Poll timeout reached: 10 seconds",
    "service": {
    "protocol": "telnet",
    "address": "exciter.ws",
    "port": 23
    },
    "ip_address": "24.237.52.70",
    "other_services": {
    "tcp": [
    "msp",
    "smtp",
    "pop3",
    "irc"
    ],
    "udp": []
    }
    }
    that means there was no systat service responding via UDP at 3:08 AM, PDT, today.


    digital man

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  • From Exciter@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 18:06:04 2020
    No. But maybe you didn't copy or symlink the files in the .example sub-directories?

    Copied everything from the sbup318b.zip file.



    Also, my board doesn't show up in
    sbbsimsg.lst even though I'm listed in the sbbs systems on VERT and on my board.

    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    Pretty sure I have those requirements. And your scan ports from that page shows I have 11 & 18 open.

    TCP or UDP?

    According to sbbslist.json:

    "last_success": {
    "on": "2020-09-28T07:03:08.741Z",
    "result": "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18",
    "stopcause": "Poll timeout reached: 10 seconds",
    "service": {
    "protocol": "telnet",
    "address": "exciter.ws",
    "port": 23
    },
    "ip_address": "24.237.52.70",
    "other_services": {
    "tcp": [
    "msp",
    "smtp",
    "pop3",
    "irc"
    ],
    "udp": []
    }
    }
    that means there was no systat service responding via UDP at 3:08 AM, PDT, today.
    Port 11 is open UDP and Port 18 is open TCP.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Exciter on Tue Sep 29 18:59:50 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2020 06:06 pm



    No. But maybe you didn't copy or symlink the files in the .example sub-directories?

    Copied everything from the sbup318b.zip file.

    Does your sbbs/webv4 dir tree look like this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\root

    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> .
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> ..
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> api
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> bootstrap
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> css
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> error
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> images
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 4,067 index.xjs
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> js
    1 File(s) 4,067 bytes

    And in the root\pages directory, this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\pages

    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> .
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> ..
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 1,987 000-home.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 4,997 000-mail.xjs
    09/18/2020 11:31 PM 10,487 000-register.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 26,172 001-forum.ssjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 12,720 001-forum.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 5,520 002-files.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 3,533 003-games.xjs
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> More
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 119 webctrl.ini

    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    Pretty sure I have those requirements. And your scan ports from that page shows I have 11 & 18 open.

    TCP or UDP?

    According to sbbslist.json:

    "last_success": {
    "on": "2020-09-28T07:03:08.741Z",
    "result": "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18",
    "stopcause": "Poll timeout reached: 10 seconds",
    "service": {
    "protocol": "telnet",
    "address": "exciter.ws",
    "port": 23
    },
    "ip_address": "24.237.52.70",
    "other_services": {
    "tcp": [
    "msp",
    "smtp",
    "pop3",
    "irc"
    ],
    "udp": []
    }
    }
    that means there was no systat service responding via UDP at 3:08 AM, PDT, today.
    Port 11 is open UDP and Port 18 is open TCP.

    Doesn't seem to be, at least, not right now. You can test for yourself at http://cvs.synchro.net/scanmyports.ssjs?exciter.us

    digital man

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  • From Exciter@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 22:09:30 2020
    Does your sbbs/webv4 dir tree look like this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\root

    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> .
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> ..
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> api
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> bootstrap
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> css
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> error
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> images
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 4,067 index.xjs
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> js
    1 File(s) 4,067 bytes

    And in the root\pages directory, this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\pages

    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> .
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> ..
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 1,987 000-home.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 4,997 000-mail.xjs
    09/18/2020 11:31 PM 10,487 000-register.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 26,172 001-forum.ssjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 12,720 001-forum.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 5,520 002-files.xjs
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 3,533 003-games.xjs
    09/29/2020 11:16 AM <DIR> More
    09/07/2020 12:34 AM 119 webctrl.ini

    Yes, except that I have c:\sbbs\webv4 not \sbbs\sbup\webv4


    The requirements are listed here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg#requirements

    Pretty sure I have those requirements. And your scan ports from that page shows I have 11 & 18 open.

    TCP or UDP?

    According to sbbslist.json:

    "last_success": {
    "on": "2020-09-28T07:03:08.741Z",
    "result": "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18",
    "stopcause": "Poll timeout reached: 10 seconds",
    "service": {
    "protocol": "telnet",
    "address": "exciter.ws",
    "port": 23
    },
    "ip_address": "24.237.52.70",
    "other_services": {
    "tcp": [
    "msp",
    "smtp",
    "pop3",
    "irc"
    ],
    "udp": []
    }
    }
    that means there was no systat service responding via UDP at 3:08 AM, PDT, today.
    Port 11 is open UDP and Port 18 is open TCP.

    Doesn't seem to be, at least, not right now. You can test for yourself at http://cvs.synchro.net/scanmyports.ssjs?exciter.us

    Absolutely weird. I had port 11 forwarded but it wasn't working. I deleted the forwarding and re-enabled and now it seems to be open.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Exciter on Tue Sep 29 22:59:45 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2020 10:09 pm

    And in the root\pages directory, this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\pages

    Yes, except that I have c:\sbbs\webv4 not \sbbs\sbup\webv4

    Yeah, just a couple typos on my part. I guess the next step would be to look at the web server log output and see what it displays when you attempt to hit it with a web browser. Is it possible you have another/different web server listening on port 80?

    Doesn't seem to be, at least, not right now. You can test for yourself at http://cvs.synchro.net/scanmyports.ssjs?exciter.us

    Absolutely weird. I had port 11 forwarded but it wasn't working. I deleted the forwarding and re-enabled and now it seems to be open.

    I just tried it again from here and everything failed except TCP port 80. And http://exciter.us:80 is clearly not a Synchronet web server.

    digital man

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  • From Exciter@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Sep 30 18:32:59 2020
    Re: Re: Upgrading Synchronet to 3.18 on Windows
    By: Exciter to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2020 10:09 pm

    And in the root\pages directory, this?

    Directory of \sbbs\sbup\webv4\pages

    Yes, except that I have c:\sbbs\webv4 not \sbbs\sbup\webv4

    Yeah, just a couple typos on my part. I guess the next step would be to look at the web server log output and see what it displays when you attempt to hit it with a web browser. Is it possible you have another/different web server listening on port 80?

    Doesn't seem to be, at least, not right now. You can test for yourself at http://cvs.synchro.net/scanmyports.ssjs?exciter.us

    Absolutely weird. I had port 11 forwarded but it wasn't working. I deleted the forwarding and re-enabled and now it seems to be open.

    I just tried it again from here and everything failed except TCP port 80. And http://exciter.us:80 is clearly not a Synchronet web server.

    digital man
    Yeah I have something else on port 80. I use 8080 for the web. However I just ran you port scanning tool and it shows ports 11, 18 & 79 are open.
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