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  Re: game server not working...
  By: Martin Kazmaier to Digital Man on Fri Dec 19 2025 05:41 pm

 >
 > * In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Digital Man said:
 >
 >  > Re: game server not working... By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Fri Dec
 >  > 19 2025 01:24 pm
 >
 >
 >  >  > I have to go through the entire login process (welcome to synchronet,
 >  > these
 >  >  > keys do this, what shell do you want, what avatar do you want, here
 >  >  > are
 >  > your
 >  >  > caller stats, etc....) then the game starts.  This is far from ideal
 >
 >  > Those files (e.g. "welcome to synchronet") can be simply deleted or
 >  > overwritten with whatever text you prefer, if any.
 >
 > Ok, what are the files?

As documented at https://wiki.synchro.net/config:text_files,
the files I think you're asking about are text/system.msg and text/newuser.msg

 >  >  > and it says the user name is a dupe even though it's not.
 >
 >  > Maybe it's the user's real name that's a duplicate? More information
 >  > would be needed.
 >
 > It's not a dupe, it's invalid.

In what way?

 >  >  > I've got rlogin_auto_xtrn=true set, which shows because the game does
 >  >  > start
 >  > before
 >  >  > the menu, but after all the rest of that stuff...  What am I doing
 >  > wrong?
 >
 >  > Did you also set [logon] rlogin_xtrn_logon = false in your modopts?
 >  > https://wiki.synchro.net/module:logon
 >
 > No, that wasn't listed in the game server info.  It is now.

I'm not clear what you mean by "game server info". Please clarify.
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