open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871

I created /sbbs/ctrl/modopts.d/logonlist.ini

```
[logonlist:lang=m7]
first_caller_msg: "\x83You are the first caller of the day!"
```

However when loginlist.js is run, it's not displaying the text. It seems that the [logonlist] section is modopts.ini is still being used.

If I writeln(first_caller_msg) then it shows as "" and I have checked user.lang = m7.

I'm pretty sure I've done everything right at this stage.
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871#note_6369

Does your ctrl/modopts.ini file contains this line:
```
!include modopts.d/*.ini
```
?

Do you have the latest `exec/load/modopts.js` file?
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871#note_6370

Yes and yes.

```
bbs@wibble:/sbbs/ctrl$ grep include modopts.ini
!include modopts.d/*.ini
```

Last commit logged for exec/load/modopts.js

```
commit 72e3271b43a6ccf1e6ce953800b1984ff65dbb82
Author: Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux) <rob@synchro.net>
Date: Sat Feb 8 23:50:47 2025 -0800

Load section or keys form [module:lang=<user-lang>] if it exists

This allow language-specific module options
```
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871#note_6371

Examining the code further, this change won't work with the modopts.d/* files currently.

You can, in the mean time, just add the [logonlist:lang=m7] section to the ctrl/modopts.ini file instead.

I'm pondering a different solution using a separate .ini file per module (e.g. ctrl/logonlist.ini) that doesn't depend on the !include feature of the .ini parser (which doesn't support all use-cases).
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close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/871#note_6374

I did an update and the commit did fix the issue.

{width=852 height=309}

```
last_few_callers_msg: "\x82Last few callers:\r\n"
last_few_callers_fmt: "\x85%1$-3s %2$-5s\x87%3$-22.22s\x85%6$-6.6s\x83%4$-26.26s\x86%5$s %7$4u"
```

I was also able to use your suggestion to change which variables are printed where via format modifications so killed 2 issues I had with one stone there.

Personally, I like the idea of having a .ini per .js file for configuration, that way it's easy to separate them out and you won't end up with a bulky modopts.ini file for all the modules.
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