Subj : Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
To   : Jason
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 10:16:54

  Re: Upgrading from v3.18 on CentOS7 to Ubuntu 25.04
  By: Jason to Digital Man on Thu Oct 23 2025 10:52 am

 > I have gone back and started over, and after compilation i did
 >
 > cd /sbbs/repo/exec
 > cp *.js /sbbs/exec

That's a mistake: the copy must be recursive, as pointed out on the Step 4 of https://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev

 > then i run:
 >
 > cd /sbbs/exec
 > ./jsexec update
 >
 > and it looks like it tries to work but i get one error besides the msgs.ini
 > file which the docs says thats ok it will get created.. i get this
 >
 > JSexec v3.21a-Linux master/1fecea061 - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module
 > Compiled Oct 17 2024 21:56 with GCC 14.2.0
 >
 > Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
 > !ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
 > opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
 > JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
 > JavaScript: Creating runtime: 16777216 bytes
 >
 > Reading script from /sbbs/exec/update.js
 > /sbbs/exec/update.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
 > Synchronet update.js revision 2.0
 > Updating exec directory: Success
 > Updating users ip_address field: 0 records updated
 > Updating users birthdate field: 0 records updated
 > Installing Avatars feature
 > !FAILED: No avatars collections (.bin files) found in avatars/
 > Installing Logon List Daily Event: Already installed
 > Installing Trashman Monthly Event: Successful
 > Updating [General] Text File Section indexes
 > 0 indexes updated.
 > Updating (compiling) Baja modules
 > Checking for v3.19 file bases
 > Checking for v3.20 config files
 > Upgrading Synchronet v3.1x config files to v3.20
 > main.cnf -> main.ini
 > /sbbs/node1/node.cnf -> node.ini
 > !Error reading /sbbs/node1/node.cnf
 > Checking for v3.20 user base
 > No v3.20 user base found, running /sbbs/exec/upgrade_to_v320
 >
 > upgrade - Upgrade Synchronet BBS to 3.21
 >
 > Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
 > !ERROR loading configuration files: ERROR 2 (No such file or directory)
 > opening /sbbs/ctrl/msgs.ini
 > /sbbs/exec/update.js executed in 28.28 seconds
 >
 > JavaScript: Destroying context
 > JavaScript: Destroying runtime
 >
 > -+-
 > then of course i try to run scfg and it's not giving errors like xtrn.ini
 > not found or something like that.. so im still missing something or
 > something isn't working right.

Start with the recusive update of your exec directory, per the instructions.
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