Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
By: hax0r to Digital Man on Wed Apr 22 2026 06:57 pm
> Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
> By: Digital Man to hax0r on Tue Apr 21 2026 09:35 pm
>
> > What's the log output from some or one of the servers while it's doing
> > that?
> That's the thing, there really isn't anything happening in the Terminal
> Server output while that is happening when sbbsntsvc.exe is running and its
> toggling between "Running NT Service" and "Down". There is some noise every
> now and then, likely related to some sort of spam script trying to logon but
> nothing that i could see of significance. Also, while it is doing that, I
> can connect (and stay connected). After a while, though theserver does top
> accepting any new connections even though in the GUI it looks like
> everything is fine.
I pinned that bug down and fixed it. That particular issue appears to have been
just been cosmetic - no negative impact other than maybe failure to stop or rest
art the server/service.
> > Likely. That's what *I* do. But still, it sounds like a bug
> If the recommended way to run it these days is to do an auto logon and auto
> stat of Syncrhonet Control Panel I can make that happen. I always thought
> that the service was a much more native feel since no one had to physically
> be loggged onto the box.
>
> > > 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 exec/qnet-ftp.js:
> > https://wiki.synchro.net/module:qnet-ftp
>
> I will work on updating to that new method. Its been working for decades. I
> think it stopped somewhere late last year. When I look at my messages, I
> don't see anything new since late 2025. If you want, I can try to pin down a
> more exact date before I try and fix things.
Oh? That's actually good news if it started failing with v3.19. That likely mean
s it was something else that changed that caused that script/method to stop work
ing for QWK packet transfers and *not* the upgrade to v3.21.
> Also, what do you expect... I'm old. I've been here for a long time and you
> know, if its not broke, don't fix it :)
I know, no judgment. :-) Yours is one of the longest running Synchronet systems,
so I'd expect there to be plenty of cruft (running the chksetup.js could help i
dentify some of it). I'll see if I can repro the isue with that old QWK/FTP meth
od, but there's really no reason for you to keep using it. We moved from that ba
tch file/sript to the qnet-ftp.bin Baja module like 25 years ago and then to the
JavaScript module like 6 years ago. :-)
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