Re: Would you like to see The Millionaire on Synchronet Wiki?
  By: Jas Hud to Digital Man on Tue Sep 15 2020 05:43 pm

 >   Re: Would you like to see The Millionaire on Synchronet Wiki?
 >   By: Digital Man to MRO on Tue Sep 15 2020 04:49 pm
 >
 >  > >>>> yep that's not working for me.
 >  > >>>> i get
 >  > >>>> /sbbs/exec/sbbs: error while loading shared libraries: libsbbs.so:
 >  > >>>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 >
 > > oh with the dev package i extracted and overwrote the files into
 > sbbs\exec and it failed to start the bbs with that error when i
 > changed dir to /sbbs/ctrl
 >  >> and ran /sbbs/exec/sbbs
 >
 > > that's all i needed to do, right?
 >
 >  DM> Executables go in "exec" and that that includes the library files (e.g.
 >  DM> libsbbs.so). From http://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev Extract the
 >  DM> sbbs_dev archive into your Synchronet exec directory, over-writing
 >  DM> existing files
 >
 >  DM> Then... "Continue with step 4 section of this page".
 >
 >  DM> digital man
 >
 >
 > okay i grabbed the current text.dat and overwrote and then i
 > overwrote the files in sbbs_dev.tgz in sbbs\exec
 >
 > i still get that error even though those files exist in /sbbs/exec  and the
 > dates are 09/14
 >
 > root@linux:/sbbs# cd ctrl
 >  root@linux:/sbbs/ctrl#
 > /sbbs/exec/sbbs
 > /sbbs/exec/sbbs: error while loading shared libraries: libsbbs.so: cannot
 > open shared object file: No such file or directory
 > root@linux:/sbbs/ctrl# /sbbs/exec/jsexec update
 > /sbbs/exec/jsexec: error while loading shared libraries: libsbbs.so: cannot
 > open shared object file: No such file or directory  root@linux:/sbbs/ctrl#
 >
 >
 > --------snip------
 > root@linux:/sbbs/exec# ls -al *.so
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  152232 Sep 14 08:31 libftpsrvr.so
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  180368 Sep 14 08:31 libmailsrvr.so
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8180848 Sep 14 08:31 libsbbs.so
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  103344 Sep 14 08:31 libservices.so
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  152008 Sep 14 08:32 libwebsrvr.so
 >
 >
 > so this is some weird shit.

Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include your sbbs/exec
directory.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/168340/where-is-ld-library-path-how-do
-i-set-the-ld-library-path-env-variable

 > any idea what this could be? maybe i should just backup my menus and
 > text.dat and  start from scratch.

Not necessary.

                                            digital man

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