Re: Recycling servers
  By: Immortal to All on Mon Jul 29 2019 07:43 pm

 > So I've got a new synchronet system running under ubuntu and I'm trying to
 > figure out how to recycle my servers after making changes.  It doesn't seem
 > to automatically detect and recycle like the windows version does.

It normally does.

 > I'm
 > running synchronet as an init.d service and the only way I can seem to get
 > it to recycle is to stop and start the service again.  I've tried touching
 > ctrl/recycle but it doesn't seem to work.  Out of curiousity I tried
 > touching ctrl/shutdown and ctrl/clear and those do work.  Touching
 > data/qnet/vert.now works as well.  I looked and I do not have NO_RECYCLE set
 > anywhere in my sbbs.ini.
 >
 > What am I missing?  Thanks

Are you using a really old Linux distro?

Do you see "Disabling ... Server recycle support" in your log output? That
would explain it and the cause would be Linux "capabilities" weren't set
(because it couldn't) and you're running the BBS as a non-root user.

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