Subj : Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
To   : Digital Man
From : Jason
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 09:21 am

 Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
 By: Digital Man to Jason on Wed Oct 22 2025 10:01 pm

>  > I then do the /sbbs/exec/jsexec update and it doesn't seem to work.
>
> What makes you say that? Is the update.js current (the latest from the Git repo)?

I think this may be the problem, so im going to start over with the upgrade and try this. Question, after i compile with symlinks, it appears that it's symlinking the executables but not any of the .js files. Is this right? Did i miss a step somewhere in the instructions? I would have thought it would have moved this stuff over?

Also, should it link the executables or create a symlink for the exec folder over to the exec folder inside of the repo directory? This is where it gets fuzzy for me because i'm not reading this in the instructions or im not understanding it properly. I am dense at times, so it's probably me, but im confused.. should i just move update.js script over by itself then?

For context, here is the header in my current exec/update.js file:

/* $Id: update.js,v 1.10 2020/05/05 01:09:27 rswindell Exp $ */

Here is the one in /sbbs/repo/exec:

/* Synchronet v3.15+ update script (to be executed with jsexec) */

So definitely a newer version there.

Also, the compile did create the symlinks for the update_to_v319 and update_to_v320 but not one for update.js

Here is the files from my /sbbs/exec folder:

-rw-r--r--  1 sbbs sbbs   5244 Nov 10  2020 update.js
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     62 Oct 23 04:16 upgrade_to_v319 -> /sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release/upgrade_to_v319
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     62 Oct 23 04:16 upgrade_to_v320 -> /sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release/upgrade_to_v320


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> Look at the ctrl/main.ini file - does it have your BBS name, etc. in it? If not, then there was no conversion of the your old ctrl/*.cnf files to ctrl/*.ini, and if that's the case, then you
> ran
> the wrong update.js or something like that.

Here is a sample of the first few fields in the main.ini up to my system password which i didn't copy here:

Hard Drive CafeHDCBBSMontgomery, Alabama!!!!!!!!!!!!JasonThe Guru

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What I am going to do is attempt to re-do the update on this new server, manually copy over the new update.js file over to the /sbbs/exec directory and then attempt to run that and see what I get. Maybe this will solve all my issues. Still would like to know if i missed a step or something i didn't read right. But as always thanks DM for your quick response! You've always been great for me and I appreciate you!

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