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  • IRC Server - No O: Liens

    From Winzlo@1:103/705 to All on Tue Apr 14 08:11:42 2026
    After upgrading from Syncronet 3.21e to 3.21f, I now find myself unable to oper myself with the latest ircd.js. I use Igloo IRC client for iPad which I had preprogrmamed startup sequence to identify with NickServ and ChanServ, then promote myself to IRCop. Despite any of the netmasks I tried (I have 4 different entries for myself, for good measure), all I ever get is No O:Lines.

    Is this something that got overwritten that I should have kept on-hand for a post-upgrade restore, or did I spot a gremlin?

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Winzlo on Tue Apr 14 20:19:10 2026
    Re: IRC Server - No O: Liens
    By: Winzlo to All on Tue Apr 14 2026 08:11 am

    After upgrading from Syncronet 3.21e to 3.21f, I now find myself unable to oper myself with the latest ircd.js. I use Igloo IRC client for iPad which I had preprogrmamed startup sequence to identify with NickServ and ChanServ, then promote myself to IRCop. Despite any of the netmasks I tried (I have 4 different entries for myself, for good measure), all I ever get is No O:Lines.

    Is this something that got overwritten that I should have kept on-hand for a post-upgrade restore, or did I spot a gremlin?

    It's most likely something else, unrelated, as there haven't been any meaningful changes to the ircd in a while. But if you want to revert to older revisions of ircd.js (and it's dependent files), they're all still available in Git:
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commits/master/exec/ircd.js https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tree/master/exec/load/ircd

    If you find any it starts to work when you revert, let me know.
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    digital man (rob)

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  • From Winzlo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Apr 15 21:22:45 2026
    Re: IRC Server - No O: Liens
    By: Digital Man to Winzlo on Tue Apr 14 2026 08:19 pm

    It's most likely something else, unrelated, as there haven't been any meaningful changes to the ircd in a while. But if you want to revert to older revisions of ircd.js (and it's dependent files), they're all still available in Git:
    ...
    If you find any it starts to work when you revert, let me know.

    I found what happened. I ran jsexec ../exec/ircdcfg.js, which corrupted the ircd.ini contents by changing the block titles from [<category>:<item>] to [<category>:<sequential number>].

    So, my O-lines were indeed missing because they were showing up as [Operator:1] and so forth. This is also true for many of the other headers such as Services, Restriction and Server. I'm in the process of rebuilding my ircd.ini and will test is shortly after, but I anticipate no problems, well other than the one I found. :)

    -Winzlo

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Winzlo on Thu Apr 16 10:23:31 2026
    Re: IRC Server - No O: Liens
    By: Winzlo to Digital Man on Wed Apr 15 2026 09:22 pm

    I found what happened. I ran jsexec ../exec/ircdcfg.js, which corrupted the ircd.ini contents by changing the block titles from [<category>:<item>] to [<category>:<sequential number>].

    Okay, good to know. I've created an issue at gitlab.synchro.net for tracking. --
    digital man (rob)

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