BW> I checked with strace, and it appears that it only checks the text
 BW> directory of the theme and that of the fallback theme (in my case, the
 BW> "default" theme) for the INI file, but not the "global" data directory
 BW> (/home/bbs/mystic/data/resetpw.ini):

Thanks this was really helpful.  I was able to see the problem and fix it up for the next build.

 BW> open("resetpw.ini", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or

This is the problem.  Its supposed to be opening in the calculated directory + the filename but its accidentally using just the filename.  I'll have that fixed in the next build.

Oddly enough when I tested it, it worked becaue I accidentally had a copy of the .ini file in my root Mystic directory lol.

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