Subj : New Ubuntu & Synchronet setup To : MRO From : RickV Date : Wed Jul 02 2025 04:57:01 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) þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net .