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|    New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup    |
|    02 Jul 25 04:57:01    |
      MSGID: 1:154/110@fidonet.org 686502a4       REPLY: 54413.sync@1:103/705 2ccac013       PID: GED+W64 1.1.5-b20250409       TID: SBBSecho 3.28-Win32 master/a43ca30ea Jun 18 2025 MSC 1942       BBSID: LIVEWIRE       TZUTC: -0500       CHRS: CP850 2       FORMAT: flowed       Hello MRO.              09 Dec 70 04:16, you wrote to me:               MR> Re: New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup        MR> By: RickV to All on Tue Jul 01 2025 09:08 pm               Ri>> Hello All.               Ri>> I installed Ubuntu 24.04 in a virtualBox, got it up and running        Ri>> and updated. I followed the wiki for installing SBBS in Linux,        Ri>> went well after MY errors. I have been able to set SBBS up and        Ri>> have tried to run the BBS, but I get this error,               Ri>> bbs@ubuntu-VirtualBox:/home/ubuntu$ /sbbs/exec/sbbs               Ri>> Synchronet Console for Linux-x64 Version 3.21a Copyright 2025 Rob        Ri>> Swindell !SBBSCTRL environment variable not set, using default        Ri>> value: /sbbs/ctrl Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini Loading        Ri>> configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl !ERROR 13 (Permission denied)        Ri>> creating/opening sbbs.pid !Started as non-root user (id 1001):        Ri>> May fail to bind TCP/UDP ports below 1024 7/1 21:05:31 term        Ri>> Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a 7/1 21:05:31 term        Ri>> Compiled master/4518ad3ff Jun 25 2025 17:43 with GCC 13.3.0 7/1        Ri>> 21:05:31 term Initializing on Tue Jul 1 21:05:31 2025 with        Ri>> options: 2 7/1 21:05:31 term Loading configuration files from        Ri>> /sbbs/ctrl 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating data directories        Ri>> 7/1 21:05:31 term Verifying/creating node directories 7/1        Ri>> 21:05:31 term Telnet Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 23        Ri>> 7/1 21:05:31 term Telnet Server listening on socket :: port 23        Ri>> 7/1 21:06:00 term !Telnet Server ERROR -9 calling getaddrinfo()        Ri>> on :: [Threads: 3 Sockets: 1 Clients: 0 Served: 0 Errors: 1]        Ri>> (?=Help): q               Ri>> I have given my "sbbs" user full root permissions. I can't figure        Ri>> out why the telnet gets this error. Anyone have an idea? I did        Ri>> set the environment variable.               MR> did you set it using export?              Sure did.              RickV              --- SBBSecho 3.28-Win32        * Origin: Live Wire BBS [livewirebbs.com:1025] (1:154/110)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 153/7715 154/110 218/700 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 206 317 400 426 428 550 700 705 266/512 291/111       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 154/110 229/426           |
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