Subj : Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
To   : Riba
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 10:59:10

  Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
  By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Jul 19 2022 07:52 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 >
 > On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 12:19:21 AM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:
 > > See https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/ctrl/sbbs.ini for
 > > reference. Perhaps you need 2 or more of those values for ecWeb to work.
 > Thanks, I will revisit the web thing and play around with it, I already see
 > that the configuration file on gitlab has more settings than mine.
 > However, I managed to reproduce the problem I had initially, and it is
 > triggered by the upgrade from 3.18 to 3.19a. After starting Synchronet it
 > complains that it cannot open the configuration file, and when opening scfg
 > I see garbled strings in each node path field. If I clean it up manually the
 > service will start, but I'm wondering if something else could be messed up
 > in cfg file (?) If you need any info that may help let me know, but it seems
 > it is reproducible.
 > Screenshot here:
 > https://photos.app.goo.gl/wZufzgzdNbBRVms37

No one else has reported that issue, so it is intersting. I'll try a v2.30->v3.19 upgrade path at some point and see if I can reproduce it.

..ini files with "more settings" is fine (you don't need to add them), the default values are used in that case.
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