[Chdata]

This started appearing in all of my error logs out of nowhere one day.

L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: SourceMod error session started
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: Info (map "vsh_spotline_b8") (file "errors_20150121.log")
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx] Error(s) detected parsing addons/sourcemod/configs/admins.cfg
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 15) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 21) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 27) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 45) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 51) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 81) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 04:27:40: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 87) Unknown group "Admin"
L 01/21/2015 - 05:48:32: Error log file session closed.

I looked at admins_groups.cfg or whatever it's called, and surely enough, the group "Admin" was suddenly lowercase, whereas other groups (such as "Donor") are just fine.

I'm confused as to how this is happening. In the webpanel, the group name appears as "Admin" like it should.

Luckily, it seems as if it isn't actually affecting my admins... ???

[Chdata]

Okay... I changed it to lowercase.

It fixed it for all but one server...

L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: SourceMod error session started
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: Info (map "plr_hightower") (file "errors_20150123.log")
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx] Error(s) detected parsing addons/sourcemod/configs/admins.cfg
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 15) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 21) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 27) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 45) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 51) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 81) Unknown group "admin"
L 01/23/2015 - 01:02:31: [admin-flatfile.smx]  (line 87) Unknown group "admin"

And on this server, admin-group.cfg shows it as "admin" with proper keyvalue syntax and stuff. admin.cfg shows them all as being in the "admin" group. It matches just fine yet admin-flatfile does this. Wtf.

[Danyas1337]

groups.cfg

PHP Code:

"Groups"
{
//
} 


Or

PHP Code:

"groups"
{
//
} 


?

[Chdata]

"Groups"

[asherkin]

The problem here is that SourceBans uses the KV (which is a case-insensitive format) API to write a SMC (which is a case-sensitive format) file. Thus fucking up the case of section names if there is another KV file already loaded with the same name in a different case (because the engine case-insensitively pools the strings internally).