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  • Loading and telnet errors

    From RickV@1:154/110 to All on Thursday, July 03, 2025 11:04:08
    Hello All.

    I'm getting these loading and telnet errors when trying to run SBBS under ubuntu. Any ideas what I have wrong?

    eading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini
    Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
    !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) creating/opening sbbs.pid
    !Started as non-root user (id 1001): May fail to bind TCP/UDP ports below 1024 7/3 11:02:35 term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a
    7/3 11:02:35 term Compiled master/4518ad3ff Jun 25 2025 17:43 with GCC 13.3.0 7/3 11:02:35 term Initializing on Thu Jul 3 11:02:35 2025 with options: 2
    7/3 11:02:35 term Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
    7/3 11:02:35 term Verifying/creating data directories
    7/3 11:02:35 term Verifying/creating node directories
    7/3 11:02:35 term Telnet Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 2023
    7/3 11:03:33 term Terminal Server !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) in main.cpp line 3629 (init) opening "nodefile" access=0

    Thanks,
    RickV

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to RickV on Thursday, July 03, 2025 14:00:59
    Re: Loading and telnet errors
    By: RickV to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 11:04 am

    I'm getting these loading and telnet errors when trying to run SBBS under ubuntu. Any ideas what I have wrong?

    Looks like permissions/ownership issue (of your ctrl/node.dab file). You can ignore the sbbs.pid error.
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