Re: Problems after recent update of sychronet 3.20 files
  By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Oct 13 2024 01:30 am

 > After having an incident in which I overwrote some config files,
 > on 10/11/2024 and updated Synchronet 3.20 files.
 >
 > These errors are occurring using a custom shell also. will test with
 > synchronet classic, and post if different.
 >
 >  The following problems have popped up.
 >
 > 1)
 > bullseye bulletin looks for bullseye.asc in text/menu which isn't
 > present, as I'm using symlinks and let it build the menu. When
 > i hit return, the screen clears and the Bullesye Bulletin Menu
 > is displayed without any further issues.
 >
 > Calling Bullseye Bulletin
 >
 > Synchronet BullsEye! Version 3.00 by Rob Swindell
 >
 > !ERROR checking /sbbs/text/menu/bullseye.asc
 >
 > The sysop has been notified.
 > [Hit a key]
 >
 > Error log shows:
 > Sun Oct 13 00:37:04 2024 master/964df0f48 toolazy.synchro.net
 > term Node 2  !ERROR in prntfile.cpp line 287 (menu) checking
 > "/sbbs /text/bullseye.asc" access=0

This should be fixed now. Previously, for a while now in v3.20a, failed calls to menu() were just silent failures. That's been fixed. So that's now highlight another (long-standing) issue when display files in "text" (rather than text/menu) and that your script's setting of the global "menu_dir" caused to fail. This should be fixed now (we won't use the global "menu_dir" as a sub-dir of text/menu when the menu "code" being displayed starts with '.' (as in, "../bullseye.asc").

 > 2) I added calls to sendmail.js to try and page me via
 > email to SMS gateway. This worked before 10/11/2024.
 >
 > paging sysop calls sendmail.js (per local configuration
 > in chat.ini)
 >
 > chat.ini:cmd=?sendmail.js -s "BBS: Someone wants to chat" --
 > XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att .net  < /home/sbbs/ctrl/pageme
 > chat.ini:cmd=?sendmail.js -s "BBS: Someone wants to chat" --
 > XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att .net < /home/sbbs/ctrl/pageme
 >
 > says it cannot compile. 1st line is a she-bang !# to jsexec
 > is that the correct way the file should be ?
 >
 > Paging Amessyroom...!JavaScript sendmail.js line 1: SyntaxError: illegal
 > charac t
 > er
 >
 > !ERROR compiling /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js
 >
 > The sysop has been notified.
 > Sat Oct 12 2024 07:42 pm Amessyroom paged you to chat from node 1
 >
 > The sysop has been notified.
 > [Hit a key]
 >
 > head /home/sbbs/repo/exec/sendmail.js
 > #!/sbbs/exec/jsexec -x
 > // Change previous line to correct jsexec path!
 >
 > // Suitable as a replacement for /usr/sbin/sendmail
 > // and/or                        /usr/bin/mail
 > // and/or                        /usr/bin/mailx
 >
 > var log = new File(system.temp_dir + "sendmail.log");
 > //log.open('a');
 > log.writeln(system.timestr() + ' ' + js.exec_file + ' argv=' + argv);
 >
 >
 > The error log shows:
 > term Node 1 !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) in exec.cpp line 649
 > (js_execf ile) compiling "/sbbs/exec/sendmail.js" access=0
 >
 > /sbbs is a symlink
 >
 > /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js does exist
 >
 > [sbbs@vmi1943160 notes]$ ls -l /sbbs
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 17 20:34 /sbbs -> /home/sbbs
 > [sbbs@vmi1943160 notes]$ ls -l /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js
 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 sbbs sbbs 3874 Jun 17 20:14 /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js
 > [sbbs@vmi1943160 notes]$
 >

No recent changes to that script or jseexc. I'm still using sendmail.js (via jsexec) successfully on my BBS.

 > After loading a theme with jpg image that has to be converted to sixel.
 > I'm getting the following error.
 >
 > !ERROR checking
 > /sbbs/mods/../xtrn/DigDist/DDLoginMatrixThemes/bordeaux-tower/L o
 > ginBackground.asc
 >
 > Error log shows:
 >
 > Sun Oct 13 01:15:55 2024 master/964df0f48 toolazy.synchro.net
 > term Node 2 !ERROR in prntfile.cpp line 287 (menu) checking
 > "/sbbs/mods/../xtrn
 > /DigDist/DDLoginMatrixThemes/bordeaux-tower/LoginBackground.asc" access=0

Does that file exist? The DDLoginMatrix may need to use the P_NOERROR flag in calls to menu() if they don't want failures to be reported as errors.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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