Subj : Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Nov 17 2025 11:10:51

  Re: Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
  By: Gamgee to Rixter on Sat Nov 15 2025 07:24 pm

 Ga> Strange.  My SBBS has *never* crashed, in over 7 years.  Granted, it runs
 Ga> on Linux, but there are plenty of folks running on Windows that don't see
 Ga> crashes, either.

I ran my Synchronet BBS in Windows for many years, and I saw random crashes occasionally.  It was often enough that I found a utility that would check whether the SBBS control panel was running, and if not, run it; I set that up to run periodically via the Windows Task Scheduler.  I did some debugging, and as far as I could tell, the crashes looked like they were related to the Mozilla JavaScript library that Synchronet was using, but I didn't go further to get more information to see what exactly in the JS library was causing the crashes.

It's interesting of other Synchronet sysops in Windows hadn't been seeing periodic crashes, but the fact that a SBBS check utility exists for Windows seems to suggest for me that other Synchronet sysops saw the same issue and someone decided to make a utility to re-run it if it's not running.

I wondered if the crashes were due to something I was doing in some of my JS mods for Synchronet, but it seemed to random to easily track down.  And now that I'm running my BBS in Linux, I feel like it hasn't been a noticeable issue anymore for me.

Nightfox

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