Subj : New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup
To : MRO
From : RickV
Date : Wed Jul 02 2025 04:57 am
Hello MRO.
09 Dec 70 04:16, you wrote to me:
MR> Re: New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup
MR> 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
Ri>> and updated. I followed the wiki for installing SBBS in Linux,
Ri>> went well after MY errors. I have been able to set SBBS up and
Ri>> have tried to run the BBS, but I get this error,
Ri>> Synchronet Console for Linux-x64 Version 3.21a Copyright 2025 Rob
Ri>> Swindell !SBBSCTRL environment variable not set, using default
Ri>> value: /sbbs/ctrl Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini Loading
Ri>> configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl !ERROR 13 (Permission denied)
Ri>> creating/opening sbbs.pid !Started as non-root user (id 1001):
Ri>> May fail to bind TCP/UDP ports below 1024 7/1 21:05:31 term
Ri>> Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a 7/1 21:05:31 term
Ri>> Compiled master/4518ad3ff Jun 25 2025 17:43 with GCC 13.3.0 7/1
Ri>> 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
Ri>> /sbbs/ctrl 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating data directories
Ri>> 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating node directories 7/1
Ri>> 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()
Ri>> on :: [Threads: 3 Sockets: 1 Clients: 0 Served: 0 Errors: 1]
Ri>> (?=Help): q
Ri>> I have given my "sbbs" user full root permissions. I can't figure
Ri>> out why the telnet gets this error. Anyone have an idea? I did
Ri>> set the environment variable.
MR> did you set it using export?
Sure did.
RickV
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