The Unix Installation page in the wiki says "Occasionally, you may need to perform a clean rebuild. A clean build can generally be achieved by first executing ”make RELEASE=1 clean“ in the src/sbbs3 and src/sbbs3/scfg directories before performing your normal make command-lines (step 4 above), but sometimes (rarely) the clean command will need to be executed in one or all of the following directories first (e.g. when dependent files are deprecated and removed from CVS)" Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their defaults? Does doing this affect any custom website templates/themes you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your changes, configurations and customizations preserved?

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The Unix Installation page in the wiki says "Occasionally, you may need to perform a clean rebuild. A clean build can generally be achieved by first executing ”make RELEASE=1 clean“ in the src/sbbs3 and src/sbbs3/scfg directories before performing your normal make command-lines (step 4 above), but sometimes (rarely) the clean command will need to be executed in one or all of the following directories first (e.g. when dependent files are deprecated and removed from CVS)" Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their defaults? Does doing this affect any custom website templates/themes you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your changes, configurations and customizations preserved?

Never mind, I answered my own question. I backed up my sbbs directory and tested it. A clean rebuild didn't affect the configuration settings or web themes. I should have thought of trying that before posting. :)

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Re: Clean rebuild question (Linux)
By: Charlie to All on Thu Apr 05 2018 15:56:10

The Unix Installation page in the wiki says "Occasionally, you may need to perform a clean rebuild. A clean build can generally be achieved by first executing .make RELEASE=1 clean. in the src/sbbs3 and src/sbbs3/scfg directories before performing your normal make command-lines (step 4 above), but sometimes (rarely) the clean command will need to be executed in one or all of the following directories first (e.g. when dependent files are deprecated and removed from CVS)" Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their defaults? Does doing this affect any custom website templates/themes you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your changes, configurations and customizations preserved?
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doing a cvs update from /sbbs/src will not.. but uif you go back into /sbbs or /sbbs/ctrl or /sbbs/data, etc you may get some trouble.

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Re: Clean rebuild question (Linux)
By: Charlie to All on Thu Apr 05 2018 03:56 pm

The Unix Installation page in the wiki says "Occasionally, you may need to perform a clean rebuild. A clean build can generally be achieved by first executing ”make RELEASE=1 clean“ in the src/sbbs3 and src/sbbs3/scfg directories before performing your normal make command-lines (step 4 above), but sometimes (rarely) the clean command will need to be executed in one or all of the following directories first (e.g. when dependent files are deprecated and removed from CVS)" Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their defaults?

sbbs.ini and services.ini are in the "ctrl" directory. So long as you don't perform a "cvs update" on the directory, no files in that directory will be "reset".

Does doing this affect any custom
website templates/themes you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your changes, configurations and customizations preserved?

No, I wouldn't want that for you or your users.

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On 2018 Apr 05 15:56:10, you wrote to All:

Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their
defaults? Does doing this affect any custom website templates/themes
you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In
other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your
changes, configurations and customizations preserved?

all the clean command does is remove intermediate files created when compiling SBBS and its associated utilities... it doesn't know anything about your CTRL or DATA directories where your config information lives...

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On 2018 Apr 05 15:56:10, you wrote to All:

Does doing this reset sbbs.ini and services.ini back to their
defaults? Does doing this affect any custom website templates/themes you may have made, any door games you may have installed, etc.? In other words, does it reset your BBS back to defaults, or are your changes, configurations and customizations preserved?

all the clean command does is remove intermediate files created when compiling SBBS and its associated utilities... it doesn't know anything about your CTRL or DATA directories where your config information lives...

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So it basically does the same thing as "make clean". Gotcha.
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On 2018 Apr 06 23:54:18, you wrote to me:

all the clean command does is remove intermediate files created when
compiling SBBS and its associated utilities... it doesn't know
anything about your CTRL or DATA directories where your config
information lives...

[trim irrelevant lines]

So it basically does the same thing as "make clean". Gotcha.

ummm... i was describing the "make clean" command to you to clarify and answer your original question about it :)

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On 2018 Apr 06 23:54:18, you wrote to me:

all the clean command does is remove intermediate files created when
compiling SBBS and its associated utilities... it doesn't know
anything about your CTRL or DATA directories where your config
information lives...

[trim irrelevant lines]

So it basically does the same thing as "make clean". Gotcha.

ummm... i was describing the "make clean" command to you to clarify and answer your original question about it :)

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Hmm, so you were. Senior moment. :)
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