Subj : Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
To : Jason
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 10:16 am
Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
By: Jason to Digital Man on Thu Oct 23 2025 10:52 am
> I have gone back and started over, and after compilation i did
>
> cd /sbbs/repo/exec
> cp *.js /sbbs/exec
That's a mistake: the copy must be recursive, as pointed out on the Step 4 of
https://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev
> then i run:
>
> cd /sbbs/exec
> ./jsexec update
>
> and it looks like it tries to work but i get one error besides the msgs.ini
> file which the docs says thats ok it will get created.. i get this
>
> JSexec v3.21a-Linux master/1fecea061 - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module
> Compiled Oct 17 2024 21:56 with GCC 14.2.0
>
> Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
> !ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
> opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
> JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
> JavaScript: Creating runtime: 16777216 bytes
>
> Reading script from /sbbs/exec/update.js
> /sbbs/exec/update.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
> Synchronet update.js revision 2.0
> Updating exec directory: Success
> Updating users ip_address field: 0 records updated
> Updating users birthdate field: 0 records updated
> Installing Avatars feature
> !FAILED: No avatars collections (.bin files) found in avatars/
> Installing Logon List Daily Event: Already installed
> Installing Trashman Monthly Event: Successful
> Updating [General] Text File Section indexes
> 0 indexes updated.
> Updating (compiling) Baja modules
> Checking for v3.19 file bases
> Checking for v3.20 config files
> Upgrading Synchronet v3.1x config files to v3.20
> main.cnf -> main.ini
> /sbbs/node1/node.cnf -> node.ini
> !Error reading /sbbs/node1/node.cnf
> Checking for v3.20 user base
> No v3.20 user base found, running /sbbs/exec/upgrade_to_v320
>
> upgrade - Upgrade Synchronet BBS to 3.21
>
> Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
> !ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
> opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
> /sbbs/exec/update.js executed in 28.28 seconds
>
> JavaScript: Destroying context
> JavaScript: Destroying runtime
>
> -+-
> then of course i try to run scfg and it's not giving errors like xtrn.ini
> not found or something like that.. so im still missing something or
> something isn't working right.
Start with the recusive update of your exec directory, per the instructions.
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