Subj : Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
To : Jason
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 10:08 am
Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
By: Jason to Digital Man on 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?
Correct.
> Did
> i miss a step somewhere in the instructions? I would have thought it would
> have moved this stuff over?
Step 4 from
https://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev includes "download the daily archive of the exec directory and extract into your Synchronet exec directory" - I think you missed that.
> 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?
It depends *how* you installed Synchronet to begin with. If you exec directory itself is not already a symlink, then you'll need to recursively copy the *.js files from the repo to your exec dir.
> Also, the compile did create the symlinks for the update_to_v319 and
> update_to_v320 but not one for update.js
That's correct. Compiling sbbs does nothing with scripts (e.g. *.js, *.src).
> > 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
Uh, that doesn't look right. The main.ini file should be .ini format, like so:
name=My BBS
qwk_id=MYBBS
location=My City, State
phonefmt=!!!!!!!!!!!!
operator=Sysop
guru=The Guru
etc.
> 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.
You need to update *all* the .js (and other run-time files) in the exec dir, not just update.js.
> 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!
Yeah, looks like Step 4 mentioned above was missed. No problem! Glad you're upgrading to the latest release!
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