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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