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When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR:
Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the
message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG
as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can configure
my BBS?

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From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR:
Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the
message is truncated so I can't see the rest.) This happens running SCFG
as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can configure
my BBS?

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I should have mentioned, it's Synchronet for Linux v.3.17. When I get the error all I can do is say OK and go back to the menu.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR:
Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the
message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG
as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can configure
my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with
running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information: "
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by
downloading the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the sbbs_src
and sbbs_run tar files?

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Re: Re: SCFG error (Linux)
By: Jay to jay on Wed Feb 28 2018 05:55 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the message is truncated so I can't see the rest.) This happens running SCFG as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can configure my BBS?

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I should have mentioned, it's Synchronet for Linux v.3.17. When I get the error all I can do is say OK and go back to the menu.

Sounds like your main.cnf file is corrupted.

digital man

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:15 -0600, Nelgin wrote:

To: jay On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: >>Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the
message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG
as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can
configure my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with
running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information: "
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by downloading
the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the sbbs_src and sbbs_run
tar files?

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I did a non-CVS installation:

# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz
# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz
# tar -xzf sbbs_src.tgz
# tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz
# cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1
# cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make
# cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbl; make
# cd /sbbs/exec
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# make

I'll try starting over and see what happens.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:57:07 +0000, jay wrote:

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:15 -0600, Nelgin wrote:

To: jay On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: >>>Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the >>>message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG >>>as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can
configure my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with
running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information: "
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by
downloading the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the sbbs_src
and sbbs_run tar files?

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telnet://vert.synchro.net

I did a non-CVS installation:

# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz # wget
ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz # tar -xzf
sbbs_src.tgz # tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz # cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make
RELEASE=1 # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbl; make # cd
/sbbs/exec # ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# make

I'll try starting over and see what happens.

OK, I deleted everything in my sbbs directory, redownloaded and compiled
the source, etc. just as in the above steps. When I'm through I don't
even have a main.cnf in /sbbs/exec.

I tried doing "touch main.cnf" just to generate a file by that name and
see if scfg would save to it, but I just get the same errors regarding userlevels (so you're right, it has something to do with that main.cnf
file. I wonder why it didn't generate a default one during the build from source?)
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Re: Re: SCFG error (Linux)
By: jay to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Feb 28 2018 11:57 pm

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:15 -0600, Nelgin wrote:

To: jay On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: >>Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the >>message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG >>as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can >>configure my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information: "
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by downloading the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the sbbs_src and sbbs_run
tar files?

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I did a non-CVS installation:

# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz
# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz
# tar -xzf sbbs_src.tgz
# tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz
# cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1
# cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make
# cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbl; make
# cd /sbbs/exec
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# make

I'll try starting over and see what happens.

Or you could just grab the latest main.cnf from CVS and overwrite yours in the ctrl dir:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ctrl/main.cnf

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #12:
Nigel Tufnel: Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?
Norco, CA WX: 51.9øF, 67.0% humidity, 5 mph ENE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Re: Re: SCFG error (Linux)
By: jay to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Mar 01 2018 12:39 am

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:57:07 +0000, jay wrote:

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:15 -0600, Nelgin wrote:

To: jay On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: >>>Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the >>>message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running SCFG >>>as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I can >>>configure my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with
running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information: "
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by
downloading the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the sbbs_src
and sbbs_run tar files?

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telnet://vert.synchro.net

I did a non-CVS installation:

# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz # wget
ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz # tar -xzf
sbbs_src.tgz # tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz # cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make
RELEASE=1 # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbl; make # cd
/sbbs/exec # ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# make

I'll try starting over and see what happens.

OK, I deleted everything in my sbbs directory, redownloaded and compiled
the source, etc. just as in the above steps. When I'm through I don't
even have a main.cnf in /sbbs/exec.

I tried doing "touch main.cnf" just to generate a file by that name and
see if scfg would save to it, but I just get the same errors regarding userlevels (so you're right, it has something to do with that main.cnf
file. I wonder why it didn't generate a default one during the build from source?)

main.cnf is included in sbbs_run.tgz (in the ctrl subdirectory). So you must've missed a step. Creating 0-byte main.cnf (by touching the file) won't work.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #9:
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On 2018 Mar 01 00:39:52, you wrote to alt.bbs.synchronet:

OK, I deleted everything in my sbbs directory, redownloaded and compiled the source, etc. just as in the above steps. When I'm through I don't
even have a main.cnf in /sbbs/exec.

what user did you build as?
what user are you trying to run as?

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:16:43 -0800, Digital Man wrote:

To: jay
Re: Re: SCFG error (Linux)
By: jay to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Feb 28 2018 11:57 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:15 -0600, Nelgin wrote:

To: jay On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:48 +0000, "jay" <jay@VERT> wrote:

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

When I select any menu item such as System I always get "ERROR: >>Insufficient User Level Information: 0 user levels read, 1..." (the >>message is truncated so I can't see the rest. This happens running >>SCFG as an unelevated user or as su. How do I get past this so I
can configure my BBS?

I did a fresh install on Ubuntu last night and had no problems with running scfg.

if(i!=100) {
sprintf(error,"Insufficient User Level Information:
"
"%d user levels read, 100 needed.",i);
fclose(instream);
return(FALSE);
}

It could be thatyour main.cnf is corrupt. Did you install by
downloading the GNUmakefile and compiling or did you get the
sbbs_src and sbbs_run tar files?

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telnet://vert.synchro.net

I did a non-CVS installation:

# wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz # wget
ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz # tar -xzf
sbbs_src.tgz # tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz # cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make
RELEASE=1 # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbl; make #
cd /sbbs/exec # ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
# make

I'll try starting over and see what happens.

Or you could just grab the latest main.cnf from CVS and overwrite yours
in the ctrl dir: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ctrl/main.cnf

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #12:
Nigel Tufnel: Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?
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I already got it working. I deleted everything (again) in SBBS, did a CVS install using the GNU makefile, then added "SBBSCTRL=/mnt/disk2/sbbs/ctrl
&& export SBBSCTRL" to my .bash_profile in my home directory, logged out
of Linux and back in. Getting a new main.cnf from CVS would have been
easier! Oh well, it works now. :)

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:10:48 -0500, mark lewis wrote:

To: jay

On 2018 Mar 01 00:39:52, you wrote to alt.bbs.synchronet:

OK, I deleted everything in my sbbs directory, redownloaded and

compiled ja> the source, etc. just as in the above steps. When I'm
through I don't ja> even have a main.cnf in /sbbs/exec.

what user did you build as?
what user are you trying to run as?

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are
not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
... I took my check to the bank today. It was too little to go by
itself.
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I realized only after I sent this that the main.cnf lives in ctl, not
exec. I had to add a SBBSCTRL path statement to my .bash_profile, just
having a symlink in root to my sbbs installation location wasn't enough.
Then scfg could find main.cnf and was happy. :)

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