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    From Hemo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Feb 20 12:48:00 2017
    Seems I may have found a way to crash sbbs.

    I was trying to send netmail, and inadvertantly entered the wrong domain, which ended up being longer than 8 characters.

    As soon as I hit enter, everything sbbs died, with no messages in any logs.

    I tried this three more times to confirm it was repeatable (read - I didn't double check the address)
    and then used the correct domain and the netmail sent just fine.

    So.. not sure if related to something build-specific on my system, or if this is a more 'general' item. I am on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

    Maybe some others could try entering netmail on their systems and addressing to something like hemo@ujointbbs and see if something crashes.

    I would hope to see a message about incorrect domain or similar, rather than the sudden disconnect and then having to restart bbs services.

    thanks,
    ;)

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Hemo on Mon Feb 20 21:19:28 2017
    Re: crashing SBBS
    By: Hemo to Digital Man on Mon Feb 20 2017 12:48 pm

    Seems I may have found a way to crash sbbs.

    Thanks for the report. Should be fixed now in CVS.

    digital man

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Tue Feb 21 08:47:42 2017
    Re: crashing SBBS
    By: Digital Man to Hemo on Mon Feb 20 2017 09:19 pm

    Seems I may have found a way to crash sbbs.

    Thanks for the report. Should be fixed now in CVS.

    Lol, I've had SBBSCTRL crashing on me randomly for a bit now, I don't thing it's the software though, more than it is my hardware, I get to the point to where I get so many connections/requests at once I believe the machine cannot handle it, I'm not getting any error messages, nothing in logs to show whats happening where, but if I run in debug mode it crashes more, so it just leads me to believe Im over taxing my system.

    I don't believe I've ever had the console version crash on me yet, but I like using the interface, etc of sbbsctrl. if I can ever bring you anything of value from the crashes, I will :)

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