Synchronet Dockerized

This is meant to be run from a unix-like (bash) environment. This package will use ~/sbbs as the base for data/configuration.

WORK IN PROGRESS

WARNING: This is a work in progress.

References

• Synchronet Wiki
• Synchronet on Docker Hub

Prerequisite Software

You must have the following installed in order to run this application.

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Node.js (14.x)

Windows

If you are using Windows, you should install WSL2, and use Docker Desktop configured to use WSL2, and it would be best to run this from a WSL2 linux environment such as Ubuntu 20.04.

Installation

The container name will be sbbs and the image will be bbsio/synchronet:latest

npm i -g @bbs/synchronet
synchronet install

Mac

If you are using mac, you should modify the dockerfile to use a volume container in docker (instructions out of scope).

Management Commands

• synchronet help - Display Help
• synchronet init - Initialize Setup - does not install container (creates ~/sbbs/*)
• synchronet install - Initialize and install/upgrade container
• synchronet uninstall - Uninstall container - does not clear ~/sbbs
• synchronet run PROGRAM [...args] - Run command inside a temporary container
• synchronet access - Fix file permissions for ~/sbbs/*. Do this before editing content.
• synchronet doorparty - Install Doorparty Connector and Doors

Runtime Commands

The following commands require that sbbs be installed/running in the sbbs docker container.

• synchronet exec PROGRAM [...args] - Run a command inside the installed container
• synchronet scfg - Load scfg
• synchronet bash - Bash prompt in container
• synchronet dos - (TODO) DOSEMU prompt in container
• synchronet logs [OPTIONS] - See below

Logs

Options:

• --details - Show extra details provided to logs
• -f, --follow - Follow log output
• --since TIME - Show logs since timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes)
• -n NUM, --tail NUM - Number of lines to show from the end of the logs (default "all")
• -t, --timestamps - Show timestamps
• --until TIME - Show logs before a timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes)

Directories

NOTE: Volume mounted directories will be owned by root as a default. In order to edit/update these files, you should run synchronet access with the sbbs container running.

Advanced Setup

If you wish to use a directory other than ~/sbbs for your volume/directory mounts, set an SBBSDIR environment variable to your desired location, for example, if you wanted to use /sbbs on a deployed server, you could do so.