Hi everyone!forgot to add im running windows 10 :)
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.
many thanks
matt
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 2:27:17¨AM UTC, Matthew C E Bamber wrote:
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.forgot to add im running windows 10 :)
many thanks
matt
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.
many thanks
matt
To: Matthew C E BamberThanks for coming back to me, i really appreciate your help.
Re: Really struggling with windows install pls help :)
By: Matthew C E Bamber to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Dec 31 2023 06:27 pm
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time
on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.Things to check:
- does running sbbs.exe instead of sbbsctrl.exe make any difference?
- do you have any "security software" installed that might be killing Synchronet because it's opening and listening on TCP/UDP ports?
--
digital man (rob)
Rush quote #59:
He's got a force field and a flexible plan, got a date w/fate in a black sedan
Norco, CA WX: 52.1¨F, 90.0% humidity, 0 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 5:10:53¨AM UTC, Digital Man wrote:update....
To: Matthew C E Bamber
Re: Really struggling with windows install pls help :)
By: Matthew C E Bamber to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Dec 31 2023 06:27 pm
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time
on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it
say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.Things to check:
- does running sbbs.exe instead of sbbsctrl.exe make any difference?
- do you have any "security software" installed that might be killing Synchronet because it's opening and listening on TCP/UDP ports?
--
digital man (rob)
Rush quote #59:Thanks for coming back to me, i really appreciate your help.
He's got a force field and a flexible plan, got a date w/fate in a black sedan
Norco, CA WX: 52.1¨F, 90.0% humidity, 0 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
i am running Microsoft Windows 10 Home
version 10.0.19045 build 19045
I have turned off (as best I can) windows defender, thats the only security software I have installed its a pretty bare bones install. although I do have the net frameworks installed.
This is the Synchronet version i am using
Installer: sbbs319b.zip [ftp] [mirror] (11MB) (January 2022)
CRC32: cef7558f
MD5: 3c5e28d62aea3c437f4cc4f9e6080f76
SHA1: e38f973ebbc816942588adfcb044c1a644c26a94
I tried running the sbbs.exe (in sbbs exec folder) i get "sbbs.exe - application error the application was unable to start correctly, although this time a black window pops up, black window goes when i click the OK box.
I had no issues during install, only at the end when its finished installing and try and run the software.
When i uninstall i get error sbbsNTsvcs.exe application error
Hope this information helps.
Thank you for your time
Matt
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 11:08:36¨AM UTC, Matthew C E Bamber wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 5:10:53¨AM UTC, Digital Man wrote:
To: Matthew C E Bamber
Re: Really struggling with windows install pls help :)
By: Matthew C E Bamber to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Dec 31 2023 06:27 pm
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
Hi everyone!
I am brand new to aynchronet BBS and trying to install it for the forst time
on windows, i go though the setup windows installer but at the end when it
say launch synchronet i get a window popup saying.
sbbsctrl.exe - application error
the application was unable to start correctly click ok to close the application?
any ideas?
Ive tried reinstalling several times.Things to check:
- does running sbbs.exe instead of sbbsctrl.exe make any difference?
- do you have any "security software" installed that might be killing Synchronet because it's opening and listening on TCP/UDP ports?
--
digital man (rob)
Rush quote #59:Thanks for coming back to me, i really appreciate your help.
He's got a force field and a flexible plan, got a date w/fate in a black sedan
Norco, CA WX: 52.1¨F, 90.0% humidity, 0 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
i am running Microsoft Windows 10 Home
version 10.0.19045 build 19045
I have turned off (as best I can) windows defender, thats the only security software I have installed its a pretty bare bones install. although I do have the net frameworks installed.
This is the Synchronet version i am using
Installer: sbbs319b.zip [ftp] [mirror] (11MB) (January 2022)
CRC32: cef7558f
MD5: 3c5e28d62aea3c437f4cc4f9e6080f76
SHA1: e38f973ebbc816942588adfcb044c1a644c26a94
I tried running the sbbs.exe (in sbbs exec folder) i get "sbbs.exe - application error the application was unable to start correctly, although this time a black window pops up, black window goes when i click the OK box.
I had no issues during install, only at the end when its finished installing and try and run the software.
When i uninstall i get error sbbsNTsvcs.exe application error
Hope this information helps.update....
Thank you for your time
Matt
I tried it on another machine and it works perfectly so did a complete fresh install on the machine i want to run it on and installed c++ 2010 and C++2015 and tried installing and now get
scfg.exe system error
the code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found. Any ideas?
Appreciate all your help :)
So I have an ip.can file that is about 1.3 gigs large, and when it gets this large there is a very long delay before a user can connect because I believe the bbs is working on parsing each line and seeing if the ip matches. I would assume I would have the same issue with host.can and other .can files.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do on my end to keep these large .can files and speed things up, or if synchronet needs some internal changes.
So I have an ip.can file that is about 1.3 gigs large, and when it gets
Do you have some kind of automated system that dumps IPs in there?
internal changes.
Do you have some kind of automated system that dumps IPs in there?
It might be worth passing that task off to something that will block those via firewall, like fail2ban or csf/lfd (for Linux). I guess there's something similar for windows (wail2ban? It hasn't been updated in forever but there are forks on github and people claim it still works)
Re: Re: Really struggling with windows install pls help :)
By: Digital Man to Matthew C E Bamber on Mon Jan 01 2024 03:48 pm
So I have an ip.can file that is about 1.3 gigs large, and when it gets this large there is a very long delay before a user can connect because I believe the bbs is working on parsing each line and seeing if the ip matches. I would assume I would have the same issue with host.can and other .can files.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do on my end to keep these large .can files and speed things up, or if synchronet needs some internal changes.
Re: large *.can files make things slow
By: DaiTengu to MRO on Tue Jan 02 2024 11:00 am
So I have an ip.can file that is about 1.3 gigs large, and when it gets
Do you have some kind of automated system that dumps IPs in there?
Synchronet itself seems to automatically put IPs in there when it detects clients trying to reconnect too often? I have a lot of entries in my ip.can with comments that start with "; SMTP - TOO MANY CONSECUTIVE FAILED LOGIN ATTEMPTS". Same with SSH.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do on my end to keep these large .can files and speed things up, or if synchronet needs some internal changes.
1.3 gigs is pretty massive. How'd that happen?
ip.can file is over a thousand times larger. I wonder if you have a lot of duplicates or perhaps every IP of a subnet listed, when instead you could be using CIDR notation to make the file much smaller. Or just expiring/removing old entries would eliminate much of that file size. Making the expiration of
memory for all of SBBS to have that massive ip.can file cached. It can be done and would likely have a significant performance improvement, but at the cost of a lot of memory used (in your case).
memory for all of SBBS to have that massive ip.can file cached. It can be done and would likely have a significant performance improvement, but at the cost of a lot of memory used (in your case).
i guess i'll just trim it down every month.
If you have the available RAM, it wouldn't be a bad option to have. In fact, when importing QWK packets, the ip.can file *is* cached (since the source IP address of each message is compared, and that'd be really slow to re-read the file each time) - so there's already some cases where your SBBS instance is allocating that much RAM for the ip.can file, but for a shorter period of time since that memory is freed after QWK packet import is complete. For a server that's listening for incoming TCP/UDP connections, the memory (for the ip.can cache) wouldn't be freed until the server was terminated.
Re: Re: Really struggling with windows install pls help :)
By: Digital Man to Matthew C E Bamber on Mon Jan 01 2024 03:48 pm
So I have an ip.can file that is about 1.3 gigs large, and when it gets this large there is a very long delay before a user can connect because I believe the bbs is working on parsing each line and seeing if the ip matches. I would assume I would have the same issue with host.can and other .can files.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do on my end to keep these large .can files and speed things up, or if synchronet needs some internal changes.
Thanks,
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