SBBS 3.17 running on CentOS 7

Noticed that when I change the sbbs.ini file (either manually or through the config script) when I am logged into the BBS via SSH that when the BBS goes to restart/reload the config file after I log off that it will no longer accept connections. I have to go in and manually stop the sbbs service and restart it via systemctl. Then everything is back to normal.

Has anyone noticed this behaviour?

Rob

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Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: Dmxrob to All on Mon Feb 11 2019 01:48 pm

Noticed that when I change the sbbs.ini file (either manually or through the config script) when I am logged into the BBS via SSH that when the BBS goes to restart/reload the config file after I log off that it will no longer accept connections. I have to go in and manually stop the sbbs service and restart it via systemctl. Then everything is back to normal.

Has anyone noticed this behaviour?

It's due to the ports remaining in TIME-WAIT status. It takes around 60 second s to clear and the port to get released. I'm not really sure if there's a C call or what that could force the port closed without a TIME-WAIT when the server restarts/shuts down, that'd probably be a question for DM or possibly Deuce.

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Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: DaiTengu to Dmxrob on Mon Feb 11 2019 01:09 pm

It's due to the ports remaining in TIME-WAIT status. It takes around 60 second s to clear and the port to get released. I'm not really sure if there's a C call or what that could force the port closed without a TIME-WAIT when the server restarts/shuts down, that'd probably be a question

If nothing else, a wait loop may be the answer. Just throw in a sleep(60); perhaps after shutdown?

Rob

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Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: Dmxrob to DaiTengu on Mon Feb 11 2019 03:22 pm

If nothing else, a wait loop may be the answer. Just throw in a sleep(60); perhaps after shutdown?

You can edit sbbs.ini and change:
BindRetryCount
BindRetryDelay

I have mine set to 10 and 15 respectively, it works fine when I restart the server.

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Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: DaiTengu to Dmxrob on Mon Feb 11 2019 05:26 pm

You can edit sbbs.ini and change:
BindRetryCount
BindRetryDelay

I have mine set to 10 and 15 respectively, it works fine when I restart the server.

Thanks. I did this and things seem to be working as expected now.

Rob

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SBBS 3.17 running on CentOS 7

Noticed that when I change the sbbs.ini file (either manually or through the config script) when I am logged into the BBS via SSH that when the BBS goes to restart/reload the config file after I log off that it will no longer accept connections. I have to go in and manually stop the sbbs service and restart it via systemctl. Then everything is back to normal.

Has anyone noticed this behaviour?

Rob

That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.

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Re: Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: Mortifis to Dmxrob on Wed Feb 13 2019 05:54 am

That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.

After applying the changes to sbbs.ini for the timeout and retry values for sockets, the issue has went away, at least for me.

Rob

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Re: Re: BBS partially hangs when config file changes
By: Mortifis to Dmxrob on Wed Feb 13 2019 05:54 am

That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.

After applying the changes to sbbs.ini for the timeout and retry values for sockets, the issue has went away, at least for me.

I applied them also made it still behaves the same :-/

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Mortifis, to Dmxrob...

SBBS 3.17 running on CentOS 7

Noticed that when I change the sbbs.ini file (either manually or through the config script) when I am logged into the BBS via SSH that when the BBS goes to restart/reload the config file after I log off that it will no longer accept connections. I have to go in and manually stop the sbbs service and restart it via systemctl. Then everything is back to normal.

Has anyone noticed this behaviour?

Rob

That happens to me also on Slackware only I have to kill -9 or pkill
sbbs. my solution to get a graceful shutdown/restart is to run sbbs in console on one tty and everything else on another.

I recently ran into this last night where I just added in a new file area
and added a file. I restarted the sbbs service a couple of times last
night in trying to learn how to import/add a file to my BBS.

And then, this morning, I tried to log in to my BBS this morning using
QModem in DOSBox on my phone and QModem kept saying "NO CARRIER" (not
really sure what that means in the emulated modem realm). I saw that my
telnet port was oepn, just wasn't connecting. Restarted sbbs this morning
and it seems fine now. Strangely enough, FTP was fine; just telnet wssn't connecting.

I, too, am running sbbs on my person desktop with CentOS 7 installed and
using systemctl to manage the sbbs service. I just wish I had logs to
show any errors that might have caused the breakage. I just assumed it was
my nightly backups that night have broke it. :(

-jag
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And then, this morning, I tried to log in to my BBS this morning using QModem in DOSBox on my phone and QModem kept saying "NO CARRIER" (not really sure what that means in the emulated modem realm). I saw that my

The logical meaning would be no TCP connection, whether not established, or it dropped.


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