Subj : Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
To : Jason
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 10:01 pm
Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
By: Jason to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 11:46 pm
> I'm attempting to create a new server and update the BBS from v3.18 to
> v3.20.
>
> I tar up the /sbbs folder on the old server and copy that to the new server
> in the same folder /sbbs
>
> I'm having trouble after i do the git pull, then the make using setcap and
> symlinks with release=1.
>
> 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)?
> if i run
> the upgrade_to_v320 it says it migrates the users to user.tab and all that
> but i can't verify things are right because #1 when i run scfg it thinks
> this is a new installation when it should be an upgrade and i can't seem to
> get passed that.
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.
> !WARNING loading configuration files: 0 nodes configured in
> /sbbs/ctrl/main.ini
>
> and of course i can see /sbbs/ctrl/main.ini and i can see the items inside
> of it, like bbs name and such, i can see the "nodes" in there too, so not
> sure why it shows 0 nodes configured.
Is it *your* BBS name or "My Brand New BBS" (or whatever the default is)?
> This is where i try and run /sbbs/exec/scfg and it says a new installation
> is detected and i abort out of there because i dont want it to override any
> of my data.
Yeah, like I said above, it sounds like you ran the wrong update.js.
k, let us know more.
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