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Synchronet Daemon (UNIX)

Monitoring Node Status

$watch /sbbs/exec/node list
  
Every 2.0s: /sbbs/exec/node list

Synchronet Node Display/Control Utility v1.22

Node  1: User #1 posting message via telnet (MP) [U]
Node  2: Waiting for connection
Node  3: Waiting for connection
Node  4: Waiting for connection
Node  5: Waiting for connection
Node  6: Waiting for connection
Node  7: Waiting for connection
Node  8: Waiting for connection
Node  9: Waiting for connection
Node 10: Waiting for connection

Monitoring Log Messages

The syslog output of the Synchronet daemon will usually go to a file in your /var/log directory. You can monitor real-time changes to this file with the tail -f command.

$tail -f /var/log/messages

or

$tail -f /var/log/sbbs.log

Monitoring Socket Usage

$watch 'netstat -nap | grep /sbbs'

Monitoring Threads

$top -o -COMMAND -H -p "$(pgrep sbbs)"

See Also