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

 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.

I commented out the user and group in the unix section of sbbs.ini and it
appears to work now.  Although it still shows an error in the log:

Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Running as daemon
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Current uids: ruid - 1002, euid - 1002, suid
- 1002
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Current gids: rgid - 1003, egid - 1003, sgid
- 1003
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: The process 2674 was given capabilities =
cap_net_bind_service+ep
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: linux_initialprivs() FAILED
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Verify the following kernel module is loaded
[See insmod(8)]: capability
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Operation not permitted
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Current uids: ruid - 1002, euid - 1002, suid
- 1002
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: Current gids: rgid - 1003, egid - 1003, sgid
- 1003
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: The process 2674 was given capabilities =
cap_net_bind_service+ep
Jul 30 18:35:10 T5500 synchronet: !Started as non-root user.  Cannot bind() to
ports below 1024.

Sorry this is new to me and somewhat confusing.  I've always used higher port
numbers and forwarded them if necessary with iptables.

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