In between versions of mailman they changed the way that the process
that delivers mail gets run; it used to be run from cron, now it's a
continuous process that you have to start separately.
When we upgraded mailman a while back, it looks like the command to
start it didn't quite make it into the startup scripts. I'm pretty sure
I've got it right in /etc/rc.local now, so when the machine gets next
rebooted (for hardware upgrades, knock on wood), the mailing lists
_shouldn't_ go silent mysteriously until someone remembers to start them
up again. I hope.
Which brings me to my next point: we _really_ need to get the lists
moved to a separate server that doesn't crash regularly, blocking our
ability to communicate with one another.
Something entirely offsite is not unreasonable; if the hosting center
catches fire or San Diego sinks into the sea ;) we should still be able
to bitch at each other about it on the lists.
The lists shouldn't require a _huge_ amount of bandwidth. It doesn't
need a low-latency connection to the database server (or any connection,
rather). It just needs a reliable host.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Popped over to the Catalan Wikipedia to see if I could find an article that
[[en:Catalan Countries]] should be linked to there... noticed that
interlanguage links show as plain text there, for example, the top of
[[ca:Geografia]] looks like:
[[da:Geografi]] [[de:Geographie]] [[en:geography]] [[eo:Geografio]]
[[es:Geografía]] [[fr:Géographie]] [[nl:Geografie]] [[pl:Geografia]]
Ciències > Geografia
... in normal viewing.
-- Jake
First, I sincerely hope the upcoming upgrades replace whatever part of
pliny is defective and has caused crashes regularly ever since we've had
the machine. (Unless it's software. Who knows?)
Second, a note: the wiki is designed to fall back onto cached pages if the
database server isn't available. *But*, often it ends up spending an
inordinate amount of time trying to talk to a server that isn't there, and
doesn't give up like it should.
A manual workaround is to go into LocalSettings (rather, CommonSettings)
and change the server IP from the real one to localhost. It'll talk to the
local server, find no database by that name, and crap out immediately.
A clean, automated way to mark the server as Dead Dead Dead would probably
be good.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I'm not 100% sure the mail server is running right after the reboot.
Testing to the mailing list... please e-mail me directly if you don't get
this. ;)
-- brion
With yet another sendmail vulnerability announced today (and still no
handy RPM upgrade from Red Hat -- what's wrong with you people, it's been
several hours! ;) I'm switching the mail server to postfix.
If all goes smoothly, there should be no loss of mail.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi there everyone.
I am running Mediawiki here at work on our local intranet. I am loving it,
apart from one bug that I can't figure out:
If i make a link to a new page, and then I follow that link and add content
to the new page, then i go back to the 1st page (with the link on it) the
link will still show up as a blank page (red) and following it will go
directly to the "edit this page". This happens even if I refresh the page!
The only way to refresh is to edit the page and save. The same thing happens
if I view the page on a different computer (I have to go into edit to
refresh the page, refresh doesnt work by itself).
Bog standard redhat 8 almost, with php + MySQL. Server connected to a router
(no cache I can see) going directly to 4 client computers. All computers are
set to check for new pages every visit. IE6 latest version running on 98 and
XP.
I run MRBS on the same server, and I have no problems with it. I would have
thought if it was a cache problem, it would affect the MRBS as well.
I havent done the mod_rewrite thing maybe thats what is the problem? I can't
appear to get mod_rewrite working properly, and the patch in the phase3
instalation wouldn't patch the mod_rewrite files at all.
If anyone has any ideas or can help, i would be most gratefull.
Cheers,
Nik
Hello,
in the hope I got it coded well, I added a few missing calls of wfMsg in
the SpecialWatchlist.php function wlCutoffLinks() and the appropriates
phrases in Language.php and LanguageDe.php.
This code is not tested, because I still not have running a proper
test-wiki, but I hope the number of errors in 3 lines is not to high.
Possibly one of our main coders can look over it.
Greetings Smurf
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