Re: Recycling servers
  By: Digital Man to Immortal on Mon Jul 29 2019 07:21 pm

 DM> Re: Recycling servers
 DM> 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. 

 DM> It normally does.
 DM> Are you using a really old Linux distro?

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit. 

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

Exactly right.  Forgive my ignorance but how do I fix the problem?

Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Running as daemon
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Current uids: ruid - 1002, euid - 1002, suid
- 1002
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Current gids: rgid - 1003, egid - 1003, sgid
- 1003
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: The process 1297 was given capabilities =
cap_net_bind_service+ep
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: linux_initialprivs() FAILED
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Verify the following kernel module is loaded
[See insmod(8)]: capability
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Operation not permitted
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Current uids: ruid - 1002, euid - 1002, suid
- 1002
Jul 30 17:56:49 T5500 synchronet: Current gids: rgid - 1003, egid - 1003, sgid
- 1003
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: The process 1297 was given capabilities =
cap_net_bind_service+ep
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: Disabling Terminal Server recycle support
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: Disabling FTP Server recycle support
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: Disabling Web Server recycle support
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: Disabling Mail Server recycle support
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: Disabling Services recycle support
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: stat Loading configuration files from
/home/bbs/sbbs/ctrl
Jul 30 17:56:50 T5500 synchronet: !Started as non-root user.  Cannot bind() to
ports below 1024.

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