Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
By: hax0r to Digital Man on Tue Apr 21 2026 06:56 pm
> Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
> By: Digital Man to hax0r on Mon Apr 20 2026 06:21 pm
>
> > There's an upgrade_to_SBBS_v3.21e.exe in that zip, I assume you ran it?
>
> Yup, I also ran it again, mayking sure that the sbbsntsvc.exe was killed
> before I ran it. After running it and starting the service and the running
> the Synchronet Control Panel GUI the behavior was the same. I can see it
> flashing between "Running NT Service" and "Down" over and over every half
> second or so. The funny thing is that I can still connect even when it is
> doing this.
What's the log output from some or one of the servers while it's doing that?
> > Not a lot of sysops use sbbsNTsvcs.exe, so first question would: do you
> > have problems if you disable the NT services and just run sbbs.exe or
> > sbbsctrl.exe directly? In the mean while, I'll do some more testing with
> > sbbsNTsvcs.exe and sbbsctrl.exe together to see what I can find.
>
> I just disabled the service and started the GUI and it went to Listening
> mode. It also immediately ran External events and all of a sudden my
> Echomail was processed! I am going to leave it running this way for a it and
> see what happens. I'm surprised more people don't run the service -- I am
> assuing they are setup to have their systems autologon and run the GUI at
> startup?
Likely. That's what *I* do. But still, it sounds like a bug.
> > It sounds like the event thread is hung runing a QWKnet call-out event.
> > How many hubs do you have setup in SCFG->Networks->QWK and what are their
> > call-out command-lines? That doesn't explain the not answering incoming
> > connections though.
>
> You are my only network :)
> the callout command is %!vert.bat
> the contents of vert.bat are as follows:
>
> ftp -s:c:\sbbs\exec\vert.ftp | find /v "Upload complete"
> if not errorlevel 1 del c:\sbbs\data\vert.rep
So that's a really old way to perform a QWK network call-out. It *should* still
work, so I'm not telling you to change it, but the new/supported way is using ex
ec/qnet-ftp.js:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:qnet-ftp
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