Subj : Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
To   : hax0r
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Apr 24 2026 09:17 pm

  Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
  By: hax0r to Digital Man on Fri Apr 24 2026 07:26 pm

 >   Re: Synchronet 3.21e upgrade
 >   By: Digital Man to hax0r on Wed Apr 22 2026 10:39 pm
 >
 >  > I pinned that bug down and fixed it. That particular issue appears to
 >  > have been just been cosmetic - no negative impact other than maybe
 >  > failure to stop or restart the server/service.
 >
 > Thats great to hear! I have been running it in interactive mode for the past
 > couple of days and it seems to be pretty stable. Once you have the update
 > out I'm happy to switch bact to the service and test things out.

There's a nightly development build that's usually updated daily:
https://synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_dev.zip (for Win32)

 >  > Oh? That's actually good news if it started failing with v3.19. That
 >  > likely means it was something else that changed that caused that
 >  > script/method to stop working for QWK packet transfers and *not* the
 >  > upgrade to v3.21.
 >
 > Yeah, I was getting occasional QWK errors last year, but I never thought
 > much of it. I had been a while since I newscaned dovenet (you know,
 > life......) so I didn't find it until I put some effort in recently with the
 > update. I'm happy to switch to the newer method and will give it a go this
 > weekend.

So is it still failing the vert.bat method even after you switched from NT 
services? The related log output (the "Events" window or the data/events.log 
file entries) might be helpful in diagnosing why.

 >  > I know, no judgment. :-) Yours is one of the longest running Synchronet
 >  > systems, so I'd expect there to be plenty of cruft (running the
 >  > chksetup.js could help identify some of it). I'll see if I can repro the
 >  > isue with that old QWK/FTP method, but there's really no reason for you
 >  > to keep using it. We moved from that batch file/sript to the qnet-ftp.bin
 >  > Baja module like 25 years ago and then to the JavaScript module like 6
 >  > years ago. :-)
 >
 > thanks for the tip on chksetup.js. I'll give that a go and see what it says.
 > I do think that I am still having some event issues are my fido is not
 > polling regularly.

Similarly, the events log would be one of the first places to look.

 > I think you should take some of the credit for my board being there all of
 > those years. its been rock solid stable over the and I would not still be
 > here if it wasn't for synchronet. so glad and thankful that you have kept
 > the synchronet machine going all of these years.

Let's get you back to a solid working state. :-)
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                                            digital man (rob)

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