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    From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sun Apr 30 01:42:24 2023
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558

    services.ini contains a single gopher entry

    ; Archaic HTTP-like protocol
    [Gopher]
    Port=1170
    Command=gopherservice.js

    However, starting up sbbs I get

    4/29 20:39:20 srvc 0029 !ERROR 13 binding Gopher socket to port 70: Permission denied
    4/29 20:39:20 srvc Gopher listening on socket :: port 70

    I'm not running setcap since valgrind doesn't like that.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Apr 30 01:47:11 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558#note_3531

    Double-check everything or restart sbbs after updating services.ini?

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Apr 30 01:52:24 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558#note_3533

    Works for me:
    `4/29 18:50:48 srvc Gopher listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 1170 `

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Apr 30 01:58:03 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558#note_3534


    ok. I found the issue, and it's yet again down these stupid links we have to create for git.



    If you're in /sbbs/exec and try to edit ../ctrl/services.ini then edits the version in /sbbs/repo/ctrl and not the actual /sbbs/ctrl.

    I originally edited in /sbbs/ctrl then changed /sbbs/exec to run sbbs, realized I needed to change the port for gopher so did vi ../ctrl/services.ini

    I still dislike this whole git workaround and this is another reason why.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sun Apr 30 01:58:06 2023
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558

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  • From Dan Clough@VERT to Nigel Reed on Sun Apr 30 04:18:00 2023
    Nigel Reed wrote to GitLab note in main/sbbs <=-

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558#note_3534

    ok. I found the issue, and it's yet again down these stupid links
    we have to create for git.If you're in /sbbs/exec and try to edit ../ctrl/services.ini then edits the version in /sbbs/repo/ctrl
    and not the actual /sbbs/ctrl.I originally edited in /sbbs/ctrl
    then changed /sbbs/exec to run sbbs, realized I needed to change
    the port for gopher so did vi ../ctrl/services.iniI still dislike
    this whole git workaround and this is another reason why.

    Perhaps consider NOT using symlinks? I don't use them, it's not like
    disk space is an issue these days. Much easier to manage, IMHO.



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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon May 1 00:59:10 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/558#note_3541

    You don't have to have symlinks to the repo. I'm using Synchronet without symlinks.

    There's also a note [on the wiki](http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix) about building Synchronet without symbolic links (In the 'Updating' section, refer to point 2 where it says " Rebuild Synchronet (replace symlinks with install if you prefer to copy executable and library files to your exec directory)"). I'm running Synchronet without symlinks to the repo and haven't had a problem.

    I normally use a software repository as a software development tool for keeping track of file revisions, so I normally try to avoid running software from a repository or keeping links to a repo, etc. for the reason you describe.

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