Over the last month or so I realized that my sbbs has been just
stopping. I have to manually restart it every day.

Nothing in any of the logs. No errors no crashes nothing.

I decided to run it manually in the foreground and watch them memory to
see if I get any clues.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

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Re: SBBS mysteriously stopping
By: Mojo to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Wed Jul 29 2026 08:34 am

Over the last month or so I realized that my sbbs has been just
stopping. I have to manually restart it every day.

Nothing in any of the logs. No errors no crashes nothing.

I decided to run it manually in the foreground and watch them memory to
see if I get any clues.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

First, make sure you have core dumps enabled and working. If already do, look for core dumps.

Second, your PID says you're running Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/c1820d521 Oct 31 2025 GCC 12.2.0 - a lot of fixes, especially in the web server, (and one formal release) have been made since then. You should update.
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Re: SBBS mysteriously stopping
By: Mojo to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Wed Jul 29 2026 08:34:58

Over the last month or so I realized that my sbbs has been just
stopping. I have to manually restart it every day.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

Not without it leaving a core behind. If you're on Linux, you may need to configure your user to drop a core, or maybe there is one you've not spotted?

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On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:22:33 -0500
"nelgin" (VERT/EOTLBBS) <VERT/EOTLBBS!nelgin@overfit.retrievo.xyz>
wrote:

Re: SBBS mysteriously stopping
By: Mojo to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Wed Jul 29 2026 08:34:58

Over the last month or so I realized that my sbbs has been just
stopping. I have to manually restart it every day.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

Not without it leaving a core behind. If you're on Linux, you may
need to configure your user to drop a core, or maybe there is one
you've not spotted?

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Thank you I will enable core dump. I also preserved the full log of
the session. And also do the update.

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On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:52:00 -0700
"Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@overfit.retrievo.xyz> wrote:

Re: SBBS mysteriously stopping
By: Mojo to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Wed Jul 29 2026 08:34 am

Over the last month or so I realized that my sbbs has been just
stopping. I have to manually restart it every day.

Nothing in any of the logs. No errors no crashes nothing.

I decided to run it manually in the foreground and watch them
memory to see if I get any clues.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

First, make sure you have core dumps enabled and working. If already
do, look for core dumps.

Second, your PID says you're running Synchronet 3.21a-Linux
master/c1820d521 Oct 31 2025 GCC 12.2.0 - a lot of fixes, especially
in the web server, (and one formal release) have been made since
then. You should update.

Thank you I will enable core dump. I also preserved the full log of
the session. And also do the update.

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* Synchronet * Overfit BBS! Bringing back the golden era of BBS Networking.
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)