Subj : SBBSLIST v4 error
To   : Bill McGarrity
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 31 2018 03:51 pm

  Re: SBBSLIST v4 error
  By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Wed Jan 31 2018 01:06 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 01-30-18 16:43 <=-
 >
 >  DM>   Re: SBBSLIST v4 error
 >  DM>   By: Bill McGarrity to All on Tue Jan 30 2018 10:25 am
 >
 >  > Hiya gang...
 >
 >  > Just updated my Pi with all the latest and greatest (v3.17a). While
 >  > updating I saw LOTS of DNDEBUG statements which I am assuming is not an
 >  > issue.  In my bash at the end when it updates, I run jsexec update.js and
 >  > get the following...
 >
 >  > Installing SBBSLIST v4 (replacing SBl v3)
 >  > Synchronet BBS List v4(1.34)
 >  > Upgrading from: ../xtrn/sbl/sbl.dab
 >  > !@Error 2 opening ../xtrn/sbl/sbl.dab
 >
 >  > Now at this point in time I only use the Pi's for SBBSECHO and am
 >  > assuming being I haven't run ./sbbs none of the files needed for the
 >  > upgrade have been created.
 >
 >  DM> You can safely ignore that. It just means you (or anyone) never ran the
 >  DM> SBL door on that system, which probably isn't that uncommon. I'll fix
 >  DM> that error in the upgrade process.
 >
 > Great... figured that. :)
 >
 > Should I run the SBL door using JSEXEC so it can create one?

When I say "SBL", I'm referring (usually) the old Synchronet BBS List door
(v1-v3), written in C and using a clumsy flat-file database (sbl.dab). Since
it's a native program (not JavaScript), you can't execute it using JSexec.

The new "SBBSLIST" (v4) replaces the old SBL. You don't need an SBL.DAB file.
In fact I made changes to sbbslist.js to insure that. You should be able to run
sbbslist.js without any sbl.dab or sbbslist.json file. The sbl.dab is not
really *used* by sbbslist v4, it just supports upgrading from that old database
(sbl.dab) to the new sbbslist.json, automagically, if needed.


                                            digital man

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