Re: Linux BBS
By: the Outlaw to All on Sun Jun 28 2026 10:51 pm
TO> asof Late I've been contemplating Turning my Windows 7 BBS into a linux
TO> server, and running my BBS on linux, Probably Ubuntu Server 26.04, I
TO> assume my user file and other important files can just be moved over?
TO> anyway I'll check the wiki 1st.
TO> I temporarily moved the BBS to a windows 10 machine. It will either be
TO> alot of fun, or a huge headache, or a little of both.
I moved my Synchronet setup from Windows to Linux 4 years ago. I basically just
moved all my files over, including the configuration files & data files - basica
lly my whole sbbs tree. For me, the biggest thing was going through to make sure
the paths to all my doors in the external programs configuration were correct a
nd that I had them set up correctly and running (either with native Linux versio
ns, if possible, or to run with DOSBox).
For FTN messages, I was already using BinkIt (which comes with Synchronet & is w
ritten in JavaScript), and that just kept running as expected in Linux.
One thing I did on Linux is that I created a sbbs.service file so I could run Sy
nchronet using systemd (systemctl), since I wouldn't be using sbbsctrl.exe anymo
re.
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