Subj : Loading and telnet errors
To   : All
From : RickV
Date : Thu Jul 03 2025 11:04 am

Hello All.

I'm getting these loading and telnet errors when trying to run SBBS under ubuntu. Any ideas what I have wrong?

eading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini
Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
!ERROR 13 (Permission denied) creating/opening sbbs.pid
!Started as non-root user (id 1001): May fail to bind TCP/UDP ports below 1024
7/3 11:02:35 term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a
7/3 11:02:35 term Compiled master/4518ad3ff Jun 25 2025 17:43 with GCC 13.3.0
7/3 11:02:35 term Initializing on Thu Jul  3 11:02:35 2025 with options: 2
7/3 11:02:35 term Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
7/3 11:02:35 term Verifying/creating data directories
7/3 11:02:35 term Verifying/creating node directories
7/3 11:02:35 term Telnet Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 2023
7/3 11:03:33 term Terminal Server !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) in main.cpp line 3629 (init) opening "nodefile" access=0

Thanks,
RickV

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