Subj : Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
To   : hax0r
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 21 2026 09:35 pm

  Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
  By: hax0r to Digital Man on Tue Apr 21 2026 06:56 pm

 >   Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
 >   By: Digital Man to hax0r on Mon Apr 20 2026 06:21 pm
 >
 >  > There's an upgrade_to_SBBS_v3.21e.exe in that zip, I assume you ran it?
 >
 > Yup, I also ran it again, mayking sure that the sbbsntsvc.exe was killed
 > before I ran it. After running it and starting the service and the running
 > the Synchronet Control Panel GUI the behavior was the same. I can see it
 > flashing between "Running NT Service" and "Down" over and over every half
 > second or so. The funny thing is that I can still connect even when it is
 > doing this.

What's the log output from some or one of the servers while it's doing that?

 >  > Not a lot of sysops use sbbsNTsvcs.exe, so first question would: do you
 >  > have problems if you disable the NT services and just run sbbs.exe or
 >  > sbbsctrl.exe directly? In the mean while, I'll do some more testing with
 >  > sbbsNTsvcs.exe and sbbsctrl.exe together to see what I can find.
 >
 > I just disabled the service and started the GUI and it went to Listening
 > mode. It also immediately ran External events and all of a sudden my
 > Echomail was processed! I am going to leave it running this way for a it and
 > see what happens. I'm surprised more people don't run the service -- I am
 > assuing they are setup to have their systems autologon and run the GUI at
 > startup?

Likely. That's what *I* do. But still, it sounds like a bug.

 >  > It sounds like the event thread is hung runing a QWKnet call-out event.
 >  > How many hubs do you have setup in SCFG->Networks->QWK and what are their
 >  > call-out command-lines? That doesn't explain the not answering incoming
 >  > connections though.
 >
 > You are my only network :)
 > the callout command is %!vert.bat
 > the contents of vert.bat are as follows:
 >
 > ftp -s:c:\sbbs\exec\vert.ftp | find /v "Upload complete"
 > if not errorlevel 1 del c:\sbbs\data\vert.rep

So that's a really old way to perform a QWK network call-out. It *should* still 
work, so I'm not telling you to change it, but the new/supported way is using 
exec/qnet-ftp.js:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:qnet-ftp
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