Hello everybody!

After reviewing the wiki on migrating Synchronet, I removed and did a fresh install on my Linux Mint VM. After the install I set it up slightly with scfg. I then copied my data, ctrl, node*, text, mods,and xtrn directories. After that when I ran scfg again, nothing was updated, everything was the way it was before I copied the directories. Am I missing something, why is Synchronet not reading the newer files?

Thanks,
RickV


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Re: Migrate question
By: RickV to All on Thu Sep 04 2025 10:19 am

After reviewing the wiki on migrating Synchronet, I removed and did a fresh install on my Linux Mint VM. After the install I set it up slightly with scfg. I then copied my data, ctrl, node*, text, mods,and xtrn directories. After that when I ran scfg again, nothing was updated, everything was the way it was before I copied the directories. Am I missing something, why is Synchronet not reading the newer files?

What do you mean about setting it up "slightly"?
I migrated my Synchronet BBS from Windows to Linux a few years ago (also with Linux Mint), and I actually found it fairly smooth. I didn't do any pre-setup with SCFG; I simply copied my Synchronet directory tree over to my Linux setup. I made sure I set the needed environment variables (I set SBBSROOT, SBBSCTRL, and SBBSEXEC), and Synchronet was able to find its configuration & everything. In SCFG, I just had to change the command lines for the doors & such (for instance, not running .bat files & such), changed paths to ensure they were correct, etc.

Nightfox

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Hello Nightfox!

20 Mar 71 08:29, you wrote to me:

Re: Migrate question
By: RickV to All on Thu Sep 04 2025 10:19 am

After reviewing the wiki on migrating Synchronet, I removed and
did a fresh install on my Linux Mint VM. After the install I set
it up slightly with scfg. I then copied my data, ctrl, node*,
text, mods,and xtrn directories. After that when I ran scfg
again, nothing was updated, everything was the way it was before
I copied the directories. Am I missing something, why is
Synchronet not reading the newer files?

What do you mean about setting it up "slightly"?
I migrated my Synchronet BBS from Windows to Linux a few years ago
(also with Linux Mint), and I actually found it fairly smooth. I
didn't do any pre-setup with SCFG; I simply copied my Synchronet
directory tree over to my Linux setup. I made sure I set the needed environment variables (I set SBBSROOT, SBBSCTRL, and SBBSEXEC), and Synchronet was able to find its configuration & everything. In SCFG, I just had to change the command lines for the doors & such (for
instance, not running .bat files & such), changed paths to ensure they were correct, etc.

Nightfox

Did you already have a install of SBBS on your Linux? If you did, did you just copy your Windows SBBS directory over to and on top of the Linux setup?

Thanks,
RickV


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Did you already have a install of SBBS on your Linux? If you did, did you just copy your Windows SBBS directory over to and on top of the Linux setup?

From what I remember, I think I closed the Git repository in Linux and built the executables, then copied over my ctrl, text, mods, and xtrn directorie & such. I may have just replaced the stock Linux directories with what I had from Windows, so all my configuration files and data files from xtrn and menu files & everything were there.

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Re: Migrate question
By: Nightfox to RickV on Invalid Time

From what I remember, I think I closed the Git repository in Linux and built the executables, then copied over my ctrl, text, mods, and xtrn directorie & such. I may have just replaced the stock Linux directories with what I had from Windows, so all my configuration files and data files from xtrn and menu files & everything were there.

Eric

What I have done is a complete re install from the git respo and the a "make" after that I hace copied my data, ctrl node*, text, mods, and xtrn directories. once that's done I run scfg, when I do that, none of the copied setup is in the new SBBS. I don't understand why it's not useing the copied infor. I have even on a new install just copied my sbbs directory tree from my Windows setup over, and the same problem. Doesn't make sense.

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Re: Migrate question
By: RickV to Nightfox on Fri Sep 05 2025 06:15 am

What I have done is a complete re install from the git respo and the a "make" after that I hace copied my data, ctrl node*, text, mods, and xtrn directories. once that's done I run scfg, when I do that, none of the copied setup is in the new SBBS. I don't understand why it's not useing the copied infor. I have even on a new install just copied my sbbs directory tree from my Windows setup over, and the same problem. Doesn't make sense.

Are you sure you copied everything to the expected place? And your configuration files (in sbbs/ctrl) are the ones from your Wnidows setup? And your environment variables (SBBSCTRL, SBBSEXEC, and SBBSROOT) are set to the correct directories?

Nightfox

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Re: Migrate question
By: RickV to All on Thu Sep 04 2025 10:19 am

Hello everybody!

After reviewing the wiki on migrating Synchronet, I removed and did a fresh install on my Linux Mint VM. After the install I set it up slightly with scfg. I then copied my data, ctrl, node*, text, mods,and xtrn directories. After that when I ran scfg again, nothing was updated, everything was the way it was before I copied the directories. Am I missing something, why is Synchronet not reading the newer files?

You copied the files to the wrong location. Try doing a system-wide file search for "main.ini" (for example, e.g. "dir /s c:\main.ini" if on Windows) and if/when you find that filename in multiple locations, that should give a clue what you did wrong.
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