dummy commands dont work heres perm.yml: How i like (before restart): http://pastebin.com/MMkQEGSa How i dont like(after restart): http://pastebin.com/FsnMiCqF

Plz help me and figure out why its merging!

Does your server.properties file have online-mode=false?

Which version of PEX are you using?

Are there any errors being shown in your server console when you start the server? (Copy the server log from the moment you start the server through where you see a message similar to "Done!" and the server has finished loading. Pastebin that log for me to look at please.)

I changed it to false

im using: PermissionsEx-1.23.4

pastbin: http://pastebin.com/QRmRCKGh

It should be set to true. Some people change it to false to run hacked servers and let people with pirated/illegal copies of Minecraft play on the server.

And PEX doesn't support that stuff. >.>

It looks like a couple of your plugins are not updated for Minecraft 1.11.2, which you're running.

Change the server.properties file back to true and post another server log for me please.

Set it to true.

Heres pastebin: http://pastebin.com/S74ExY2b

2017-01-15 18:06:40 | [RAW] *** Error, this build is outdated ***

Your Spigot file is outdated. You will need to download a new version, after you delete the one you currently have installed.

2017-01-15 18:06:59 | [ERROR] Could not load 'plugins/iControlU_v1.9.8 (1).jar' in folder 'plugins'

This type of error usually means you have 2 copies of the plugin's .jar file installed. Make sure you only have 1 copy of each plugin .jar file installed on the server.

2017-01-15 18:06:59 | [ERROR] Could not load 'plugins/ServerEssentials.jar' in folder 'plugins'

Your ServerEssentials plugin is outdated.

2017-01-15 18:07:00 | [WARN] [PermissionsEx] This server is in offline mode. Unless this server is configured to integrate with a supported

2017-01-15 18:07:00 | [WARN] **** SERVER IS RUNNING IN OFFLINE/INSECURE MODE!

The server is still being run in offline mode, which PEX does not support.

2017-01-15 18:07:02 | [ERROR] Error occurred while enabling MOTDColor v0.5 (Is it up to date?)

2017-01-15 18:07:03 | [ERROR] Error occurred while enabling BigBrother v1.11.0-SNAPSHOT (Is it up to date?)

2017-01-15 18:07:06 | [ERROR] Error occurred while enabling ChatProtectionPlus v1.0.1 (Is it up to date?)

2017-01-15 18:07:06 | [ERROR] Error occurred while enabling EssentialsChat v2.13.1 (Is it up to date?)

All of the above plugins are outdated. Many plugins can't be used on servers versions that they were not made for. You will have to download new versions of these plugins, or remove them from the server.

"EssentialsChat" can not be used on any server beyond Minecraft 1.8 because the author abandoned the project.

2017-01-15 18:07:06 | [ERROR] Permission node 'schema-version' in permissions.yml is invalid

A critical error found in your permissions.yml file. Your file should follow this example.

It will not matter if your file is perfect and that you fix all of the errors I mention here if you keep trying to run the server in offline mode. (online-mode=false) PEX will never function correctly, no matter what you do, with that setting.

What?

I have edited my previous comment to include more details.

What is the error?

All of the the stuff I quoted above.

Most importantly:

1. The server is still running in offline mode. If you don't run the server with online-mode=true, PEX will never function correctly and you can ignore #2 below.

2. There is a critical error in your permissions.yml file. The link in my previous comment (with all the quoted errors and how you fix them) will show you how your file is wrong.

I set it to true for real this time. pastebin: http://pastebin.com/aTzhRsRa

Did you read my other post, with all the other errors you need to fix?

I dont have 2 icu .jars

EssentialsChat works just fine

I have the same version of spigot on my private server and every thing works just fine (it has less ranks/groups) <----- that might be the problem i think PEX has a limit of groups/ranks

What number of groups are you trying to use?

I have seen people with Prison Pokemon servers that have A to Z as group names, and then another 3 dozen Pokemon group names.

So, as far as I can tell, PEX doesn't have a "group/ranks limit" like you're suggesting.

Here is the permisions.yml http://pastebin.com/MMkQEGSa

The longest functional PEX file I have worked on was over 18,000 lines of text.

Also, since your server is running in offline mode, the users: section is not populating with your UUID, and PEX is never going to function correctly.

Your file is many hundreds of lines longer than it needs to be because you're not using inheritances. (And, on a side note, PEX requires an inheritance section in every group as of Minecraft 1.9. If you don't have those inheritance sections, PEX will also not function correctly.)

Permissions like essentials.afk.auto and essentials.afk don't need to be given to every group.

If you look at this example and replace permission.node.one with essentials.afk (a node you want everyone to have, for example), the way that example has inheritances set up, everyone in the entire file gets that permission node. Admins inherit all the nodes that Mods have, Mods inherit everything Members have, and Members inherit everything that Guests have. So, Admins also have everything that Guests have, without having to list all of those unnecessary lines of text.

Ok I will set up inheritance it might be a while

Ok. Once you get those done, test the server again. If you've really changed it to online-mode=true, PEX should load and your UUID should appear in the file. If not, PEX will continue to malfunction.

Log 1 - Server is in offline mode.
Log 2 - Server is in offline mode.

Notice how all the timestamps between these 2 logs are identical.

Notice how you can hit CTRL+F and find "offline mode" in both of those files, with the exact same timestamp for both of them, and both times it's on line 66.

Any time someone requests a console log, that means you need to stop the server completely, start the server, and copy everything printed on the console— from the moment the server starts, all the way down to where the server stops printing text on the screen and/or you see a message similar to "Done!".

ok

Here is new log (hope it works) : http://pastebin.com/S9e2G6gA

After restart: http://pastebin.com/DQf2Wd0E

Well... We got PEX working. Sort of. :-/

I have never seen a server cut apart the permissions.yml file like that.

Are you sure you're stopping the server completely and not just restarting the server?

Some server hosts are absolutely terrible because they load the permissins.yml file into memory and only read from that. The only way to get the fresh permissions.yml file contents onto those servers is the stop the server completely. Then to start it again. Stop and start is a completely different functional process than restarting for these bad server hosts.

I dont do restart I edit txt stop server start server (is that good?)

You're using text commands to stop it and start it? That would be good then.

I can't imagine any other reason that the permissions.yml file would go from this (about 760 lines) down to this (about 360 lines).

Give me some time to look at these files more closely...

No i edit the files the log in do /stop go to console and start it

ok reply when ready

Then*

FORMATTING!

Some of your groups are indented too far.

Give me a couple more minutes...

I also found 10 times that you used the tab key in your file. YAML (.yml) files can't have any tab key usages in them, unless the tab key is only inserting spaces.

Try this paste.

Stop the server. Replace your permissions.yml file with the contents of the above paste. Start the server.

Then stop the server and open the permissions.yml file in Notepad to see if it's been butchered again.

I'm taking off for dinner. I'll check back in here about 60 minutes from now.

OK

Havent tested it full seems to work.

The file's not chopped up? Excellent!

Feel free to post again here if and other wonky stuff happens. :)