Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To : NIGHTFOX
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Jun 30 2024 10:00 am
> How do you normally run Synchronet on your system? When I moved my BBS from
> Windows to Linux a couple years ago, for a little while I was just directly
> running sbbs from a command prompt, but I later set it up to run with systemd.
> I think one of the advantages of the systemd setup is it runs in the
> background, and I think I wouldn't even have to log in for it to be running.
> Also, systemd can monitor and restart processes that have crashed. On Windows
> every so often I saw Synchronet crash, seemingly randomly, and at one point
> when doing some debugging, it looked to me like the crash was caused by
> something in the Mozilla JavaScript library. I didn't bother to debug further
> (I'd probably have to compile the JS libraries in debug mode), but I was using
> something for Windows that would monitor whether Synchronet was running and
> re-start it if it wasn't. I feel like it's good that that feature is built-in
> with systemd.
You can run things daemonized (i.e. in the background) without systemd.
