Subj : Re: Synchronet for FreeBSD
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Christine
Date : Tue Aug 09 2005 02:54 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

I can't be certain of course, as I don't know your setup.  It runs well
for me, with synchronet installed under ~sbbs, with all files and
directories being chowned sbbs:sbbs and modded to allow user and group
access.

That being said, I would suggest looking to be sure that
$LOGDIR/$SYNCPIDF is a reachable and absolute /path/name, with all the
correct permissions.  I grant that if you can find and see the file
itself that it should all be correct, but that is what I would check.

The access to the file comes early in the script, and you can find the
check for if Synchronet is running at

#
# Get Synchronet status, not an aggressive approach.
#

 if [ -f $LOGDIR/$SYNCPIDF ]; then
    SYNCPID=`cat $LOGDIR/$SYNCPIDF`
    if [ "$SYNCPID" != "" ] && kill -0 $SYNCPID 2>/dev/null ; then
       UP=1
    else
      UP=0
    fi
 else
    UP=0
 fi


and maybe add something like
echo $LOGDIR/$SYNCPIDF after that last fi, then make sure that
1. it's an absolute pathname, like /sbbs/logs/synchronet.pid or
/home/sbbs/logs/synchronet.pid and not a relative pathname log
logs/synchronet.pid

2. make sure the user you're running as has full access to that
pathname

Hope this helps...

--- Synchronet 3.12b-Win32 NewsLink 1.83

.