Good evening,
I plan on using JSexec to run IRCd. It appears to be a better way. I was curious if there are commands I can execute in the loop to see how many leaves are attached and a list of connections in the DOS window it creates? I was reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd? Is this the tool I need to use instead or with jsexec -l ircd to answer my previous question?
I hope this message finds you all well and looking forward to a great weekend. Cheers,
Rixter
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to All on Thu Nov 13 2025 06:21 pm

reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd? Is this the

That part should be about using Linux's 'systemd' to start the service and keep it running. You mentioned DOS window, so I'm guessing you're running Windows and that part wouldn't apply to you.

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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: phigan to Rixter on Fri Nov 14 2025 05:41 am

Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to All on Thu Nov 13 2025 06:21 pm

reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd? Is this t

That part should be about using Linux's 'systemd' to start the service and k it running. You mentioned DOS window, so I'm guessing you're running Windows and that part wouldn't apply to you.

Thank you Phigan. I appreciate the clarity. I hope you have a great weekend! Take care,
Rixter
Rixter
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to All on Thu Nov 13 2025 06:21 pm

Good evening,
I plan on using JSexec to run IRCd. It appears to be a better way. I was curious if there are commands I can execute in the loop to see how many leaves are attached and a list of connections in the DOS window it creates?

No, that's just an output console. No commands can be entered (e.g. via the local keyboard) into ircd.js.

I was reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd?

It's a *nix thing.
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to phigan on Fri Nov 14 2025 09:38:10

reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd? Is this t

That part should be about using Linux's 'systemd' to start the service and
k it running. You mentioned DOS window, so I'm guessing you're running
Windows and that part wouldn't apply to you.

Thank you Phigan. I appreciate the clarity. I hope you have a great weekend! Take care,

i yet have to somehow put sbbs into a systemd service =) or have i?
currently i still just switch into the sbbs linux user on the proxmox lxc command line and start sbbs. That starts all other services as well. And then it just runs =)

i like to be able to watch what's going on in synchronet on the proxmox web terminal. You see everything logged to the screen there. BINKPOLL and all services outputs etc

In umonitor you see the actual bbs connections only, but in a nice interface, with options to spy, chat and edit etc.

Advantage of using systemd service file would be that sbbs can autostart via systemd service. For now i am good with starting sbbs manually on the console.

what do you want to achieve using systemd to run a service Rixter?

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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Mindsurfer to Rixter on Fri Nov 14 2025 09:38 pm

Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to phigan on Fri Nov 14 2025 09:38:10

reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd? Is this

That part should be about using Linux's 'systemd' to start the service a
k it running. You mentioned DOS window, so I'm guessing you're running
Windows and that part wouldn't apply to you.

Thank you Phigan. I appreciate the clarity. I hope you have a great weekend! Take care,

i yet have to somehow put sbbs into a systemd service =) or have i? currently i still just switch into the sbbs linux user on the proxmox lxc command line and start sbbs. That starts all other services as well. And the it just runs =)

i like to be able to watch what's going on in synchronet on the proxmox web terminal. You see everything logged to the screen there. BINKPOLL and all services outputs etc

In umonitor you see the actual bbs connections only, but in a nice interface with options to spy, chat and edit etc.

Advantage of using systemd service file would be that sbbs can autostart via systemd service. For now i am good with starting sbbs manually on the consol

what do you want to achieve using systemd to run a service Rixter?

Mindsurfer

I was just wanting to see how many leaves connected and some of the activity. I can watch the dos window and see connections and routings. It looks different than the Windows 10 GUI. I guess it will do. It is something different so I will adjust. I do like running IRCd as a service. My synchronet control panel stops working about once a week and it automatically reboots and loses those leaves. It seems to be a better way to run IRC from my BBS. I won't be switching over to Linux, so I am adjusting to the DOS view of IRCd. I have it set to start as a batch file if my entire computer reboots. When synchronet control panel freezes and crashes I use restartoncrash.exe to auto restart the control panel. It does not affect the entire pc. Its a good working system so far and I can leave it unattended for very long periods of time. I log in every so often to see how many times the synchronet has crashed and check my messages and play games with others.

Thank you for writing back to me. Have a great weekend.

Rixter
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Digital Man to Rixter on Fri Nov 14 2025 12:33 pm

Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to All on Thu Nov 13 2025 06:21 pm

Good evening,
I plan on using JSexec to run IRCd. It appears to be a better way. I was curious if there are commands I can execute in the loop to see how many leaves are attached and a list of connections in the DOS window it create

No, that's just an output console. No commands can be entered (e.g. via the local keyboard) into ircd.js.

I was reading the wiki on Using JSexec with systemd. What is systemd?

It's a *nix thing.

Thank you Digital Man. I see that now. I am going to press on with that. The output console shows me a few things. I was spoiled to the windows GUI. I will get used to the console. Have a great weekend friend!
Rixter
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Sat Nov 15 2025 01:02 pm

Thank you Digital Man. I see that now. I am going to press on with that. The output console shows me a few things. I was spoiled to the windows GUI.

In Linux, you can run umonitor to show node status & such - it's sort of similar to what the Windows GUI shows, though it's not everything. There's also gtkmonitor for Linux too.

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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Sat Nov 15 2025 01:02 pm

Thank you Digital Man. I see that now. I am going to press on with that. The output console shows me a few things. I was spoiled to the windows GUI. I will get used to the console. Have a great weekend friend!

I'm not really sure what you mean. The IRCd output in the Windows GUI (e.g. when run as a Synchronet service) is *exactly* the same as the console output sent through JSexec. No different. Maybe you're referring to the "Clients" tab in SBBSCTRL?

Anyway, there's way to display all kinds of status and stats of the IRCd, but you need to connect to it (using an IRC client) and issue administrator level commands to do that (I think, I'm no IRC expert).
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Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Nightfox to Rixter on Sat Nov 15 2025 02:11 pm

Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Sat Nov 15 2025 01:02 pm

Thank you Digital Man. I see that now. I am going to press on with that. The output console shows me a few things. I was spoiled to the windows GUI.

In Linux, you can run umonitor to show node status & such - it's sort of similar to what the Windows GUI shows, though it's not everything. There's also gtkmonitor for Linux too.

I not clear how umonitor or SBBSCTRL ("the Windows GUI") helps with monitoring the IRCd though. Since the ircd.js is a *static* service, it handles its own listening/answering of incoming connections and everything it logs (e.g. to syslog or the "Services" windows of SBBSCTRL) would also be sent to the console when run via JSexec.
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Rixter wrote to Mindsurfer <=-

I was just wanting to see how many leaves connected and some of the activity. I can watch the dos window and see connections and routings.
It looks different than the Windows 10 GUI. I guess it will do. It is something different so I will adjust. I do like running IRCd as a
service. My synchronet control panel stops working about once a week
and it automatically reboots and loses those leaves. It seems to be a better way to run IRC from my BBS. I won't be switching over to Linux,
so I am adjusting to the DOS view of IRCd. I have it set to start as a batch file if my entire computer reboots. When synchronet control panel freezes and crashes I use restartoncrash.exe to auto restart the
control panel. It does not affect the entire pc. Its a good working
system so far and I can leave it unattended for very long periods of
time. I log in every so often to see how many times the synchronet has crashed and check my messages and play games with others.

Strange. My SBBS has *never* crashed, in over 7 years. Granted, it
runs on Linux, but there are plenty of folks running on Windows that
don't see crashes, either.

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