Can you please help me know how to troubleshoot my problem?

I have used the curl https://easyinstall.citadel.org/install | bash command to install the citadel server.

I have used the default settings except the administrator name and password. 

I get the following and it stops. I can't find where the logs are kept to review the logs to see why it stops. Can anyone help me?

Restarting Citadel server to apply changes

[************************************************************************....]

I have tried this three times and it stops here every time.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

Ugh!

So a couple days ago Citadel failed to auto-reload the cert files, so I decided to try "doas service citserver restart" but that ended up with an "Unexpectedly terminated" message in the Aides room (also does Citadel not maintain its pid file?).

Now the database is all goobered up!  All mew messages don't show up in my mail clients and in WebCit they're just ERROR: #

wtf happened?  db_recover and database_cleanup.sh aren't doing shit to correct this.  kinda missing some important messages here!

Apparently after using database_verify.sh, firing up citserver again just re-corrupts it?  dafuq?

Can we just move to MariaDB instead of whatever this is?

Okay but it also isn't building on FreeBSD.  I'll post a FreeBSD VM guide so you can set up a VM and do local testerings.

Sun Aug 27 2023 14:11:09 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Follow along in the development room and you'll see that I am working as fast as possible to set us up for backends other than Berkeley DB. In other news, the most recent commit fixes the problem some people have been having with the Berkeley DB backend, so we have two ways to win. Believe me, I am as frustrated as you are, and Citadel is my pride and joy so it WILL be addressed.

Full text search is a nice-to-has, disable it for release and RELEASE.

Also make sure it builds/workses on FreeBSD.

Tue Aug 29 2023 22:54:15 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Just a quick update: the database continues to be far more reliable than in the previous version, and y'all are going to love it. However, it exposed a bug in the full text indexer, which we are working out now.

The next version will drop soon, and you're gonna love it!

Search works in so few places these days that it would be an even bigger shame not to have it work in Citadel.

BSD! BSD! BSD! BSD! BSD!

Thu Aug 31 2023 00:27:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

All that's left to do is tune it up on FreeBSD, because Kitty asked nicely and needs this soon.

What about 9Front?

( just kidding )

Thu Aug 31 2023 12:27:24 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Citadel also uses its search index to do things like email address autocompletion.

Anyway, it's finished so we don't have to worry about it. The code is more simple, too, eliminating the index cache because modern systems are going to mmap the relevant parts of the database anyway.

All that's left to do is tune it up on FreeBSD, because Kitty asked nicely and needs this soon.

So ... I'm at a friend's place and I saw what webcit is doing with unauthenticated users.  All rooms just use the mailbox view, if you select another view and then try to go to a different page, it just reverts to mailbox view.

Thought y'all should know.

i could be wrong ,but would it not default to what the last person used before the current?

Sun Sep 03 2023 21:21:18 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

So ... I'm at a friend's place and I saw what webcit is doing with unauthenticated users.  All rooms just use the mailbox view, if you select another view and then try to go to a different page, it just reverts to mailbox view.

Thought y'all should know.

I followed instructions here:

https://citadel.org/how_to_install_a_certificate_signed_by_a_recognized_certificate_authority.html

but my server doesn't have https working (I know I need let's encrypt, but I'm starting with the basics for now). One thing that I didn't see was a webcit keys directory in usr/local/webcit. Do you know if that is why the server is only http, or is there something else to do?

Thanks,
cd