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  Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
  By: Jason to Digital Man on Thu Oct 23 2025 09:21 am

 >   Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
 >   By: Digital Man to Jason on Wed Oct 22 2025 10:01 pm
 >
 >  >  > 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)?
 >
 > I think this may be the problem, so im going to start over with the upgrade
and try this. Question, after i compile with symlinks, it appears that it's
symlinking the executables but not
 > any of the .js files. Is this right? Did i miss a step somewhere in the
instructions? I would have thought it would have moved this stuff over?
 >
 > Also, should it link the executables or create a symlink for the exec
folder over to the exec folder inside of the repo directory? This is where it
gets fuzzy for me because i'm not
 > reading
 > this in the instructions or im not understanding it properly. I am dense at
times, so it's probably me, but im confused.. should i just move update.js
script over by itself then?
 >
 > For context, here is the header in my current exec/update.js file:
 >
 > /* $Id: update.js,v 1.10 2020/05/05 01:09:27 rswindell Exp $ */
 >
 > Here is the one in /sbbs/repo/exec:
 >
 > /* Synchronet v3.15+ update script (to be executed with jsexec) */
 >
 > So definitely a newer version there.
 >
 > Also, the compile did create the symlinks for the update_to_v319 and
update_to_v320 but not one for update.js
 >
 > Here is the files from my /sbbs/exec folder:
 >
 > -rw-r--r--  1 sbbs sbbs   5244 Nov 10  2020 update.js
 > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     62 Oct 23 04:16 upgrade_to_v319 ->
/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release/upgrade_to_v319
 > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     62 Oct 23 04:16 upgrade_to_v320 ->
/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release/upgrade_to_v320
 >
 >
 > ----
 >
 >  > 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.
 >
 > Here is a sample of the first few fields in the main.ini up to my system
password which i didn't copy here:
 >
 > Hard Drive CafeHDCBBSMontgomery, Alabama!!!!!!!!!!!!JasonThe Guru
 >
 > ----
 >
 > What I am going to do is attempt to re-do the update on this new server,
manually copy over the new update.js file over to the /sbbs/exec directory and
then attempt to run that and see
 > what
 > I get. Maybe this will solve all my issues. Still would like to know if i
missed a step or something i didn't read right. But as always thanks DM for
your quick response! You've always
 > been
 > great for me and I appreciate you!

I have gone back and started over, and after compilation i did

cd /sbbs/repo/exec
cp *.js /sbbs/exec

then i run:

cd /sbbs/exec
./jsexec update

and it looks like it tries to work but i get one error besides the msgs.ini
file which the docs says thats ok it will get created.. i get this

JSexec v3.21a-Linux master/1fecea061 - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module
Compiled Oct 17 2024 21:56 with GCC 14.2.0

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
!ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
JavaScript: Creating runtime: 16777216 bytes

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/update.js
/sbbs/exec/update.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
Synchronet update.js revision 2.0
Updating exec directory: Success
Updating users ip_address field: 0 records updated
Updating users birthdate field: 0 records updated
Installing Avatars feature
!FAILED: No avatars collections (.bin files) found in avatars/
Installing Logon List Daily Event: Already installed
Installing Trashman Monthly Event: Successful
Updating [General] Text File Section indexes
0 indexes updated.
Updating (compiling) Baja modules
Checking for v3.19 file bases
Checking for v3.20 config files
Upgrading Synchronet v3.1x config files to v3.20
main.cnf -> main.ini
/sbbs/node1/node.cnf -> node.ini
!Error reading /sbbs/node1/node.cnf
Checking for v3.20 user base
No v3.20 user base found, running /sbbs/exec/upgrade_to_v320

upgrade - Upgrade Synchronet BBS to 3.21

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
!ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
/sbbs/exec/update.js executed in 28.28 seconds

JavaScript: Destroying context
JavaScript: Destroying runtime

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then of course i try to run scfg and it's not giving errors like xtrn.ini not
found or something like that.. so im still missing something or something
isn't working right.

/sbbs/node1/node.cnf is there and it's readable.. everything is user and group
owned by sbbs and im running this as such, and it's readable anyway by all and
the folder is writable for the user and group, but i don't think it's getting
that far.. it's getting some error while reading. inititally it was looking
for ../node1/ but i updated my currently running bbs config to look for
/sbbs/node1 thinking before it wasn't finding ../node1 for some reason so i
set the path physically to the /sbbs/node1 but that didnt seem to fix that
issue either.

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