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  • Looking for script/utility to display "Messages from Sysop"

    From Diamond Dave@VERT to All on Sat Feb 2 18:45:26 2019
    Old Sysop here... rebuilding my Synchronet board from scratch..last time I did that was circa 2014, and then it was more up just installing a new board in top of an old one... not really updating much except the executables..

    But this time since there have been SOOOOOOOOO many upgrades to Synchronet, that I want to really start from scratch..and move away from Baja and move more to modern Javascript stuff.

    I'm using a VERY old Baja based script to display a "Messages from the Sysop" when a user logs in. It just pulls from the messages (in my case the SYSOP messages in my local message directory) and displays upon user login. If the user has seen the message, it just ignores and goes on with the login script. (the old script is EZLOGIN I think).

    Anyhow, looking for something more modern that is closer to 2019 than the early 2000s, which is when I think the script I'm still running was written.

    Thanks! :)
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Diamond Dave on Sun Feb 3 00:27:14 2019
    Re: Looking for script/utility to display "Messages from Sysop"
    By: Diamond Dave to All on Sat Feb 02 2019 06:45 pm

    Old Sysop here... rebuilding my Synchronet board from scratch..last time I did that was circa 2014, and then it was more up just installing a new board in top of an old one... not really updating much except the executables..

    But this time since there have been SOOOOOOOOO many upgrades to Synchronet, that I want to really start from scratch..and move away from Baja and move more to modern Javascript stuff.

    I'm using a VERY old Baja based script to display a "Messages from the Sysop" when a user logs in. It just pulls from the messages (in my case the SYSOP messages in my local message directory) and displays upon user login. If the user has seen the message, it just ignores and goes on with the login script. (the old script is EZLOGIN I think).

    Is it pull from a sub-board?

    Anyhow, looking for something more modern that is closer to 2019 than the early 2000s, which is when I think the script I'm still running was written.

    If you want to have a sysop notice sub-board that you're forcing users to new-scan during logon, that seems pretty simple. A single line of JavaScript:
    bbs.scan_msgs("sysop", SCAN_NEW);

    (assuming the sub-board's internal code was "sysop").

    digital man

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