http://wiki.synchro.net/ 2026-04-10T16:46:40+00:00 http://wiki.synchro.net/ http://wiki.synchro.net/_media/wiki:logo.png text/html 2022-02-19T14:21:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:gtkmonitor?rev=1645280464&do=diff GtkMonitor (UNIX) GtkMonitor is a UNIX GUI application for controlling and monitoring the Synchronet terminal server with built-in chat, user editor, configuration, and other conveniences for the Synchronet sysop. [GtkMonitor screen shot] Executable GtkMonitor is a native executable program. text/html 2023-02-09T07:49:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:index?rev=1675928976&do=diff Monitoring Synchronet monitoring methods and utilities. monitor index UNIX It can often be helpful to monitor Synchronet's TCP/IP socket and thread utilization. On Unix-like operating systems, you can do this by combining the use of included tools like watch, netstat text/html 2026-02-22T05:17:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:logfiles?rev=1771737428&do=diff Log Files Synchronet's servers and utilities can output status to a lot of different log files that are helpful for monitoring activity and debugging issues: File Purpose ctrl/csts.tab Cumulative statistics log, parsed/displayed by Synchronet and its utilities (e.g. text/html 2023-01-23T22:00:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:loglevels?rev=1674511215&do=diff Log Levels Synchronet supports multiple “log levels”. You can configure these as a “least important I want to see” type setting from the ctrl/sbbs.ini file or from the Synchronet Control Panel. The levels are as follows: Name Description Interpretation Examples Corrective action required text/html 2025-09-12T06:01:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:mqtt?rev=1757656897&do=diff Monitoring and Control via MQTT Synchronet v3.20 can publish and subscribe to message “topics” on a configured MQTT broker. As enabled and configured in SCFG->Networks->MQTT: ╔══════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Message Queue Telemetry Transport ║ ╠══════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ │Enabled Yes ║ ║ │Broker Address 192.168.1.2 ║ ║ │Broker Port 1883 ║ ║ │Username ║ ║ │Password … text/html 2021-02-24T20:49:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:multipane?rev=1614199788&do=diff Unix - Actively Monitor Multiple Logs On Unix like systems, a handy method to monitor multiple logs simultaneously is combining tmux and lnav (consult your OS for installing these utilities) This example will actively monitor /var/log/syslog; /sbbs/data/sbbsecho.log text/html 2019-05-09T08:09:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:nodes?rev=1557389365&do=diff Nodes You can use the node utility to monitor Terminal Server node status/activity. Monitoring Node Status For example, on *nix using the watch command: $ 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 f… text/html 2021-02-13T04:03:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:ntsvcs?rev=1613188999&do=diff Synchronet Windows Services (a.k.a. Synchronet NT Services) If you're running Synchronet on a Microsoft Windows NT based operating system (e.g. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10), you can run Synchronet as a set of text/html 2026-02-25T23:59:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:sbbscon?rev=1772063964&do=diff Synchronet Console The Synchronet Console is a text/console mode sysop monitoring and control program for the Synchronet BBS. For Windows, this program file is exec/sbbs.exe. For other OSes (e.g. Linux), this program is exec/sbbs. Invoke Synchronet Console for Linux-x64 Version 3.18a Copyright 2020 Rob Swindell Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.cvs.ini usage: sbbs [[cmd | setting] [...]] [path/ini_file] Commands: version show version/revision details and exit Global settings: … text/html 2020-09-16T02:03:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:sbbsctrl?rev=1600221832&do=diff Synchronet Control Panel (Windows) The Synchronet Control Panel is a Windows GUI application for controlling and monitoring the various Synchronet servers and services with built-in chat, user editor, configuration, and other conveniences for the Synchronet sysop. text/html 2020-08-26T03:48:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:sbbsexec?rev=1598413699&do=diff Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL Driver The Synchronet Windows NT Virtual UART/FOSSIL Driver (sbbsexec.dll) is a Synchronet component used (in combination with dosxtrn.exe) for the support of 16-bit external BBS programs (e.g. door games). SBBSEXEC.DLL sends its status and error messages to the Windows debug output. You can view the Windows debug output with a debug-viewer such as Microsoft's text/html 2026-02-18T11:17:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:statsfiles?rev=1771413474&do=diff Statistics Files In addition to the various log files, Synchronet's servers and utilities store system and user statistics in these files: File Purpose ctrl/dsts.ini Daily statistics (for the current day and total of all days) data/echostats.ini text/html 2024-12-16T09:18:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:syslog?rev=1734340728&do=diff syslog (UNIX) Synchronet for *nix-like OSes can send its server and services output to your system's syslog facility (e.g. rsyslogd on Debian Linux). When running sbbs as a daemon, syslog-output is automatically enabled. When running sbbs interactively (not daemonized), syslog output can be enabled by passing the text/html 2024-05-26T02:46:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:umonitor?rev=1716691596&do=diff UNIX Monitor (UNIX and Windows) UNIX Monitor is a UIFC application for controlling and monitoring the Synchronet terminal server with built-in chat, user editor, configuration, and other conveniences for the Synchronet sysop. Originally designed for UNIX systems only, it also runs with reduced functionality on Windows.