Hi All,

I was hoping to pick your brains. Thanks in advance!!

SBBS V3.17/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
Running as non root user (Properly set user and group in sbbs.ini file) Daemonize=false

I am losing a couple settings, I have not been able to figure out what
sequence of events causes this. Once it was after running /sbbs/exec/scfg
and another time it was right after I forced a Dove Net run.

1. I lose the export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl environment. I notice it when I
try to run the configuration and it says it cannot find the config file. In
the /etc/init.d/sbbs file I have
export SBBSCTRL=$SBBSROOT/ctrl
And I have also tried
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
Just to be sure.

2. Synchronet loses control over Telnet port 23 to xinetd. To gain it back
I have to shut down the bbs, restart xinetd, find the xinetd process,
manually kill that process and restart the bbs, then sbbs owns the pid.

I definitely lose the environment variable if I were to reboot, but sbbs
does start.

Thanks,
Randy

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Hi Again,

Okay I figured out the environment part, I guess I had to post the message
to think about it, I logged out of SSH and back in and it hit me that I
needed to set the environment in my profile (SInce sbbs is not running as
root. So it leaves me with just the Telnet issue.

Thanks,
Randy

Hi All,

I was hoping to pick your brains. Thanks in advance!!

SBBS V3.17/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
Running as non root user (Properly set user and group in sbbs.ini file) Daemonize=false

I am losing a couple settings, I have not been able to figure out what sequence of events causes this. Once it was after running

/sbbs/exec/scfg

and another time it was right after I forced a Dove Net run.

1. I lose the export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl environment. I notice it when I
try to run the configuration and it says it cannot find the config file.

In

the /etc/init.d/sbbs file I have
export SBBSCTRL=$SBBSROOT/ctrl
And I have also tried
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
Just to be sure.

2. Synchronet loses control over Telnet port 23 to xinetd. To gain it

back

I have to shut down the bbs, restart xinetd, find the xinetd process, manually kill that process and restart the bbs, then sbbs owns the pid.

I definitely lose the environment variable if I were to reboot, but sbbs does start.

Thanks,
Randy

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Re: Re: Losing Settings
By: Gargoyle to ALL on Tue Jan 26 2016 08:16 am

Hi Again,

Okay I figured out the environment part, I guess I had to post the message to think about it, I logged out of SSH and back in and it hit me that I needed to set the environment in my profile (SInce sbbs is not running as root. So it leaves me with just the Telnet issue.

See http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind for suggested solutions.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #12:
Synchronet was the first BBS software to ship with internal QWK networking. Norco, CA WX: 60.2øF, 29.0% humidity, 6 mph W wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Perfect, thank you!

Randy

Re: Re: Losing Settings
By: Gargoyle to ALL on Tue Jan 26 2016 08:16 am

Hi Again,

Okay I figured out the environment part, I guess I had to post the message to think about it, I logged out of SSH and back in and it hit

me

that I needed to set the environment in my profile (SInce sbbs is not running as root. So it leaves me with just the Telnet issue.

See http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind for suggested solutions.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #12:
Synchronet was the first BBS software to ship with internal QWK

networking.

Norco, CA WX: 60.2øF, 29.0% humidity, 6 mph W wind, 0.00 inches

rain/24hrs

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telnet://vert.synchro.net

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Re: Losing Settings
By: Gargoyle to All on Tue Jan 26 2016 06:34 am

2. Synchronet loses control over Telnet port 23 to xinetd. To gain it back I have to shut down the bbs, restart xinetd, find the xinetd process, manually kill that process and restart the bbs, then sbbs owns the pid.

If your not using xinetd for anything else I would disable it. If you need to have it running you can probably disable it's telnet support so that synchronet doesn't have trouble binding port 23.

Ttyl :-),
Al

... Captain, he's thinking about my breasts again! - Deanna Troy

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Re: Losing Settings
By: Al to Gargoyle on Tue Jan 26 2016 02:20 pm

Re: Losing Settings
By: Gargoyle to All on Tue Jan 26 2016 06:34 am

2. Synchronet loses control over Telnet port 23 to xinetd. To gain it back I have to shut down the bbs, restart xinetd, find the xinetd process, manually kill that process and restart the bbs, then sbbs owns the pid.

If your not using xinetd for anything else I would disable it. If you need to have it running you can probably disable it's telnet support so that synchronet doesn't have trouble binding port 23.

Ttyl :-),
Al

... Captain, he's thinking about my breasts again! - Deanna Troy

Thanks Al, that is exaclty what I did, I wasn't sure if SBBS would bind, but it did When increase the bind time and failure numbers I noticed it did not fix it. I just commented out the xinetd telenet info in the conf file.

Randy

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Re: Losing Settings
By: Gargoyle to All on Tue Jan 26 2016 06:34 am

I am losing a couple settings, I have not been able to figure out what sequence of events causes this. Once it was after running /sbbs/exec/scfg and another time it was right after I forced a Dove Net run.
1. I lose the export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl environment. I notice it when I
try to run the configuration and it says it cannot find the config file. In the /etc/init.d/sbbs file I have
export SBBSCTRL=$SBBSROOT/ctrl
And I have also tried
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
Just to be sure.
2. Synchronet loses control over Telnet port 23 to xinetd. To gain it back
I have to shut down the bbs, restart xinetd, find the xinetd process, manually kill that process and restart the bbs, then sbbs owns the pid.

On my Gentoo Linux SBBS Sysyem.. I also manually run my SBBS in a screen session by
typing screen -S SBBS that way I can detach from it and reconnect from any terminal via SSH or
console.. I do this by screen -x SBBS.. the export thing I do manually everytime. also I loose
it if I open a different console session. have to rerun the export command if I want to config
something.. far as ports go.. for some reason on my system a reroll doesn't free the ports..
they keep retrying...seem to be in use. I find it best just to quit the SBBS console and reboot
it with ./sbbs to get things going again.. I also wait atleast 3 to 4 minutes.. I'm not sure
why ports don't free up right away even after quitting.. there seems to be some kind of ghost
sesssion running.. where it thinks the ports seem to be in use... What I am saying is I wait a
bit.. before trying to reroll or sbbs boot anything.. even more so if it was allready
running...don't know if any of this helps.. I use pstree to see if sbbs may still be running.

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Re: Losing Settings
By: Timesoarer to Gargoyle on Tue Feb 02 2016 01:11 pm

something.. far as ports go.. for some reason on my system a reroll doesn't free the ports.. they keep retrying...seem to be in use. I find it best just to quit the SBBS console and reboot it with ./sbbs to get things going again.. I also wait atleast 3 to 4 minutes.. I'm not sure why ports don't free up right away even after quitting.. there seems to be some kind of ghost sesssion running.. where it thinks the ports seem to be in use... What I am saying is I wait a bit.. before trying to reroll or sbbs boot anything.. even more so if it was allready running...don't know if any of this helps.. I use pstree to see if sbbs may still be running.

http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind

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I was able to get the export environment set in my bash profile, so got that solved, it was really only a problem for me when I ssh'ed in and the environment wasn't set.

I commented out the telnet in xinet.d and solved the binding issue.

I do get error logs of a port conflict, but everything is working and I don't know which port is causing the issue. Web, telnet, email, Fido, binkd, it is all working. I did notice on some docs about the ssh port being in the sbbs.ini and I bet I have mine set wrong, I will go check that (using non-standard ssh port)

For me sometimes I have to type the problem out then something clicks in my head :-)

Randy

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Re: Losing Settings
By: Deuce to Timesoarer on Wed Feb 03 2016 02:40 am

Thanks for the tip... I did read the wiki link and made the setting.. REUSEADDR=1 in ctrl/sockopts.ini Never really looked at it as a problem. Now maybe I will be
able reroll the bbs without having to quit it. Pretty sure the only services running are from
SBBS.. Hope this helps other linux sysops as well.. Thanks Again.
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