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  • Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes

    From Dmxrob@VERT/STLWEST to Mortifis on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 08:54:12
    Re: Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
    By: Mortifis to Dmxrob on Wed Feb 13 2019 05:54 am

    That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.


    After applying the changes to sbbs.ini for the timeout and retry values for sockets, the issue has went away, at least for me.

    Rob

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/ALLEYCAT to Dmxrob on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:01:05
    Re: Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
    By: Mortifis to Dmxrob on Wed Feb 13 2019 05:54 am

    That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.


    After applying the changes to sbbs.ini for the timeout and retry values for sockets, the issue has went away, at least for me.


    I applied them also made it still behaves the same :-/

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  • From Jagossel@VERT/DISCREAL to Mortifis on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 06:31:00
    Mortifis, to Dmxrob...

    SBBS 3.17 running on CentOS 7

    Noticed that when I change the sbbs.ini file (either manually or through the config script) when I am logged into the BBS via SSH that when the BBS goes to restart/reload the config file after I log off that it will no longer accept connections. I have to go in and manually stop the sbbs service and restart it via systemctl. Then everything is back to normal.

    Has anyone noticed this behaviour?

    Rob

    That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill
    sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.

    I recently ran into this last night where I just added in a new file area
    and added a file. I restarted the sbbs service a couple of times last
    night in trying to learn how to import/add a file to my BBS.

    And then, this morning, I tried to log in to my BBS this morning using
    QModem in DOSBox on my phone and QModem kept saying "NO CARRIER" (not
    really sure what that means in the emulated modem realm). I saw that my
    telnet port was oepn, just wasn't connecting. Restarted sbbs this morning
    and it seems fine now. Strangely enough, FTP was fine; just telnet wssn't connecting.

    I, too, am running sbbs on my person desktop with CentOS 7 installed and
    using systemctl to manage the sbbs service. I just wish I had logs to
    show any errors that might have caused the breakage. I just assumed it was
    my nightly backups that night have broke it. :(

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Jagossel on Thursday, February 14, 2019 09:47:00
    On 02-13-19 08:31, Jagossel wrote to Mortifis <=-

    And then, this morning, I tried to log in to my BBS this morning using QModem in DOSBox on my phone and QModem kept saying "NO CARRIER" (not really sure what that means in the emulated modem realm). I saw that my

    The logical meaning would be no TCP connection, whether not established, or it dropped.


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