Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Linux BBS
From:    Neko
Date:    Fri Jul 03, 2026 16:50

@VIA: MIYANET
  Re: Linux BBS
  By: the Outlaw to All on Sun Jun 28 2026 22:51:40

 > asof Late I've been contemplating Turningmy Windows 7 BBS into a linux
 > server, and running my BBS on linux, Probably Ubuntu Server 26.04, I assume
 > my user file and other important files can just be moved over? anyway I'll
 > check the wiki 1st.
 >  I temporarily moved the BBS to a windows 10 machine.
 > It will either be alot of fun, or a huge headache, or a little of both.

As to my experience (I moved SBBS from Windows to Linux), the worst headache I've had was related to versions (3.18 to 3.19 or 3.20 if I remember correctly, I had it running on older Windows machine).

I've installed the BBS on Linux machine from Git repo, then copied "ctrl", "data", "text" and so on. After that I pasted contents of SBBS's directories. Then came the fun part, cross-checking if every message base worked, resolving problems, missing config lines and incompatibilities. But now it works, as I can see.
Sometimes I have to repair message bases, but I suspect it's a fault of systemctl that might cause unclean shutdowns of SBBS or a bit rot of some kind. Backups and SMButil help a lot. I haven't investigated it further yet.

---
 ■ Synchronet ■ MIYANET - bbs.miyanet.moe:(22/23/80/119) | +48 74 884 38 60
.