Subj : Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Nov 17 2025 17:08:49

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
 Ni>   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.

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

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

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

Interesting.

I guess it's just a built-in Windows issue.  :-)




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