Re: Re: Recycling servers
  By: Dan Clough to Immortal on Wed Jul 31 2019 09:32 pm

 DC> -=> Immortal wrote to Digital Man <=-

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

 Im>> I am running it as a daemon using the systemd script from
 Im>> http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:systemd.

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

 Im>> I did at first when it would not allow me to recycle the servers.
 Im>> I have since commented the user and group out.  Now it is
 Im>> allowing me to recycle the servers however it doesn't seem to be
 Im>> releasing the ports properly.  It closes and then tries to reopen
 Im>> the ports and fails with error 98 I believe.  I then have to stop
 Im>> the service and start it again in order to get things running.

 DC> 1. Stop the daemon (not sure how you do that becaue I don't do 
 DC> systemd).
 DC> 2. Open a terminal window (assuming you're in a desktop GUI), and 
 DC> make the window full-size for ease of visibility.
 DC> 3. Start the bbs like this (as a non-root user):
 DC> 4. sudo -E /sbbs/exec/sbbs
 DC> 5. Look at the "log" output in that terminal window and see if 
 DC> your port binding issue is resolved.
 DC> 6. Let us know.

It seems to be working now after a reboot.  The problem was I had a user and
group in both sbbs.ini and in the systemd script.  Thanks both of you for your
help.  

Immortal

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.

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