Re: Recycling servers
  By: Immortal to Digital Man on Tue Jul 30 2019 06:21 pm

 >   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?
 >  DM> That would explain it and the cause would be Linux "capabilities"
 >  DM> weren't set (because it couldn't) and you're running the BBS as a
 >  DM> 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.

You got lots of abnormal errors there which definitely explains the lack of
recycle support. Are you running Synchronet as a daemon? Normally that would
mean starting as root and then changing to another user-id after binding ports.

Do you have a user and/or group ID specified in the [unix] section of sbbs.ini?

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