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  Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
  By: Jason to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 11:46 pm

 > I'm attempting to create a new server and update the BBS from v3.18 to
 > v3.20.
 >
 > I tar up the /sbbs folder on the old server and copy that to the new server
 > in the same folder /sbbs
 >
 > I'm having trouble after i do the git pull, then the make using setcap and
 > symlinks with release=1.
 >
 > I then do the /sbbs/exec/jsexec update and it doesn't seem to work.

What makes you say that? Is the update.js current (the latest from the Git
repo)?

 > if i run
 > the upgrade_to_v320 it says it migrates the users to user.tab and all that
 > but i can't verify things are right because #1 when i run scfg it thinks
 > this is a new installation when it should be an upgrade and i can't seem to
 > get passed that.

Look at the ctrl/main.ini file - does it have your BBS name, etc. in it? If
not, then there was no conversion of the your old ctrl/*.cnf files to
ctrl/*.ini, and if that's the case, then you ran the wrong update.js or
something like that.

 > !WARNING loading configuration files: 0 nodes configured in
 > /sbbs/ctrl/main.ini
 >
 > and of course i can see /sbbs/ctrl/main.ini and i can see the items inside
 > of it, like bbs name and such, i can see the "nodes" in there too, so not
 > sure why it shows 0 nodes configured.

Is it *your* BBS name or "My Brand New BBS" (or whatever the default is)?

 > This is where i try and run /sbbs/exec/scfg and it says a new installation
 > is detected and i abort out of there because i dont want it to override any
 > of my data.

Yeah, like I said above, it sounds like you ran the wrong update.js.

k, let us know more.
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