Subj : New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup
To : RickV
From : MRO
Date : Tue Jul 01 2025 11:05 pm
Re: New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup
By: RickV to All on Tue Jul 01 2025 09:08 pm
Ri> Hello All.
Ri> I installed Ubuntu 24.04 in a virtualBox, got it up and running and
Ri> updated. I followed the wiki for installing SBBS in Linux, went well after
Ri> MY errors. I have been able to set SBBS up and have tried to run the BBS,
Ri> but I get this error,
Ri> Synchronet Console for Linux-x64 Version 3.21a Copyright 2025 Rob Swindell
Ri> !SBBSCTRL environment variable not set, using default value: /sbbs/ctrl
Ri> Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini
Ri> Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
Ri> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) creating/opening sbbs.pid
Ri> !Started as non-root user (id 1001): May fail to bind TCP/UDP ports below
Ri> 1024 7/1 21:05:31 term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a
Ri> 7/1 21:05:31 term Compiled master/4518ad3ff Jun 25 2025 17:43 with GCC
Ri> 13.3.0 7/1 21:05:31 term Initializing on Tue Jul 1 21:05:31 2025 with
Ri> options: 2 7/1 21:05:31 term Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
Ri> 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating data directories
Ri> 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating node directories
Ri> 7/1 21:05:31 term Telnet Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 23
Ri> 7/1 21:05:31 term Telnet Server listening on socket :: port 23
Ri> 7/1 21:06:00 term !Telnet Server ERROR -9 calling getaddrinfo() on ::
Ri> [Threads: 3 Sockets: 1 Clients: 0 Served: 0 Errors: 1] (?=Help): q
Ri> I have given my "sbbs" user full root permissions. I can't figure out why
Ri> the telnet gets this error. Anyone have an idea? I did set the environment
Ri> variable.
did you set it using export?
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