TZUTC: -0600
MSGID: 58864.sync_sys@1:103/705 2d81cdbe
REPLY: 58863.sync_sys@1:103/705 2d818f35
PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/955e50fea Aug 10 2025 GCC 14.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.32-Linux master/ec8f7009f Nov 15 2025 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: PALANTIR
CHRS: CP437 2
FORMAT: flowed
-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to Rixter on Sat Nov 15 2025 07:24 pm

 Ga> Strange.  My SBBS has *never* crashed, in over 7 years.  Granted, it runs
 Ga> on Linux, but there are plenty of folks running on Windows that don't see
 Ga> crashes, either.

 Ni> I ran my Synchronet BBS in Windows for many years, and I saw random
 Ni> crashes occasionally.  It was often enough that I found a utility that
 Ni> would check whether the SBBS control panel was running, and if not, run
 Ni> it; I set that up to run periodically via the Windows Task Scheduler.
 Ni> I did some debugging, and as far as I could tell, the crashes looked
 Ni> like they were related to the Mozilla JavaScript library that
 Ni> Synchronet was using, but I didn't go further to get more information
 Ni> to see what exactly in the JS library was causing the crashes.

 Ni> It's interesting of other Synchronet sysops in Windows hadn't been
 Ni> seeing periodic crashes, but the fact that a SBBS check utility exists
 Ni> for Windows seems to suggest for me that other Synchronet sysops saw
 Ni> the same issue and someone decided to make a utility to re-run it if
 Ni> it's not running.

 Ni> I wondered if the crashes were due to something I was doing in some of
 Ni> my JS mods for Synchronet, but it seemed to random to easily track
 Ni> down.  And now that I'm running my BBS in Linux, I feel like it hasn't
 Ni> been a noticeable issue anymore for me.

Interesting.

I guess it's just a built-in Windows issue.  :-)




... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
 þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 13 17 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187
SEEN-BY: 129/14 153/7715 154/110 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 610 700 840
SEEN-BY: 218/860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 206 317 400 426 428
SEEN-BY: 229/470 700 705 266/512 280/464 291/111 301/1 320/219 322/757
SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35
PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426