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Synchronet Control Panel Properties
The Synchronet Control Panel Properties page is available through the File->Properties menu option.
Most of the value set in this dialog are saved in your Synchronet sbbs.ini
file.
Settings
Login Command
The Login Command is what is invoked when the BBS->Login menu option is used. This is a telnet URI by default, pointing to localhost which should start the Windows default handler for Telnet connections, but you could put any command-line here.
Config Command
The Config Command is what is invoked when the BBS->Configure menu option is used. Normally this will be a command to invoke SCFG.
- The first
%s
will be replaced with the path to the Synchronetexec
directory. - The second
%s
will be replaced with the path to the Synchronetctrl
directory.
Security
Customize
Advanced
Control Directory
This setting points to your Synchronet ctrl
directory. The value is normally automatically derived from the SBBSCTRL
environment variable, but you can override this value here if you wish.
Temp Directory
This setting determines where Synchronet will store temporary files. The default is temp
off of the same parent directory as your ctrl
directory (i.e. ../temp
).
Hostname
The DNS host name of this instance of Synchronet may be over-ridden using this setting. If not set, the value from SCFG->Networks->Internet->Address is used for the system's public host name, where needed.
Log Window Size
Log windows in the Synchronet Control Panel consume memory (for scroll-back history). To limit this memory consumption, set this value to a specific number of lines (log history) to store in the Window. Logs written to disk are not limited by this setting.
Error Sound
This setting is used to specify the path to an optional WAV file which will be played on the local/server system every time there is an error condition detected in the system and logged.
Undockable Windows
Checking this box allows the child windows of the Synchronet Control Panel to be “undocked” from the parent window and floated (e.g. on another monitor).
Use File Associations
Checking this box causes the Synchronet Control Panel to use Windows' file associations for opening text and configuration files with common file extensions/suffixes (e.g. .txt
, .cfg
, etc.). When unchecked, a simple text editor built into the Synchronet Control Panel will be used to open and edit these types of files.
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