Subj : Re: Synchronet for FreeBS
To   : Christine
From : Frank Reid
Date : Tue Aug 09 2005 10:02 pm

  Re: Re: Synchronet for FreeBS
  By: Christine to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Aug 09 2005 16:07:00

 > I should add, for clarity, that this script was written on and for
 > FreeBSD, using /bin/sh.  I haven't tested it on linux, solaris, sco,
 > mac os X, etc... and I haven't tested it with any other shells
 > including csh, tcsh, zsh, bash, ksh, pdksh, etc.
 > 
 > It's just a little script to help me play with synchronet installed in
 > /home/sbbs as user sbbs, group sbbs, with everything (including the
 > script) ran as sbbs.  I'm not using root at all, or using the script as
 > multiple users or from multiple accounts.

And you did an outstanding job with it.  I'm sure the problem is here,
Christine.  I'm on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (tracking CVS).  I had previously been
running as root, but figured I'd set up sbbs:sbbs and do it that way.  (The
sole function of that box is the BBS and an internal Squid proxy, so there was
no inherent jeopardy in running as root.)

I did echo the LOGDIR and SYNCPIDF within the script to confirm the path was
absolute and correct.  In fact, the contents of the SYNCPID variable itself
displays the correct process, so it's just very weird that the script exits
with the "Synchronet is not current running" error.  I'll play with it some
more... again, I'm sure it's something I'm not doing here.

Thanks again.

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