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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slashcode-general-admin@...
> [mailto:slashcode-general-admin@... Behalf Of
> George Clark
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:36 PM
> To: slashcode-general@...
> Subject: [Slashcode-general] Rebuilding a Slash Server
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm building up a replacement Slash server for an ancient old
> IBM PC that
> is running our site.  I've gone with a Debian distribution this time,
> using Knoppix as the starter system.   Most everything has gone well
> so-far, but I had a really difficult time getting mod_perl installed.
>
> Turns out the distribution came with Perl 5.8, and didn't include
> libperl-dev.   Many missing includes later I finally got the needed
> pieces installed and lib_perl built.  Bundle::Slash installed fine.
>
> Here's the question.   Along the way I saw a warning saying
> that perl was
> installed with threading support which is experimental and not
> recommended on production systems, or something like that.
> Also, Perl
> 5.8 is pretty new.  Does anyone have any experience with perl 5.8?
> Before I get too far along and migrate all of the data,  is this a
> mistake and should I start over with Perl 5.6?   I tried to remove the
> 5.8 version, but kpackage wanted to de-install over 300 other
> packages.
> So it appears it will be difficult to downgrade without starting from
> scratch.
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:53, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> Anyone else having problems with Blob Files not showing up anymore? The 
> tag exists in the HTML source, but does not display in a browser 
> window..........
I suspect one of two things:
1) You upgraded to a mid version where it was broken
2) The cleaner parser is somehow missing your syntax (sorry, I deleted
it before I could test it).

How well does your syntax match the syntaxes that I put up on
Slashcode.com a few days ago?
	-Brian
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Um,  syntaxes where on slashcode?

I have the latest (as of this morning) CVS of slash. I updated pretty 
much all the templates (I can list the ones I didn't update, but I don't 
think they would have done anything as they didn't before).

What I had in the storys before was:
<SLASH-FILE ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Part 1">

But slash seems to convert them to:
<slash type="FILE" ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Part 1">

Either way, it looks like everything is in the HTML source, IE: I see 
the link in the source, but it never appears on the browser page.........

Brian Aker wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:53, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>  
>
>>Anyone else having problems with Blob Files not showing up anymore? The 
>>tag exists in the HTML source, but does not display in a browser 
>>window..........
>>    
>>
>I suspect one of two things:
>1) You upgraded to a mid version where it was broken
>2) The cleaner parser is somehow missing your syntax (sorry, I deleted
>it before I could test it).
>
>How well does your syntax match the syntaxes that I put up on
>Slashcode.com a few days ago?
>	-Brian
>  
>

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:24, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> Um,  syntaxes where on slashcode?
Look at the most recent stories.

> What I had in the storys before was:
> <SLASH-FILE ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Part 1">
> 
> But slash seems to convert them to:
> <slash type="FILE" ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Part 1">
Right, its supposed to do that (the second version is a clean tag, the first one is just shorthand).

Does it have a </SLASH> to close it? I may have changed the syntax slightly for this one since I first committed it. I may not have originally required text and instead just used the title. 

This could be solved if it is a problem with not having a </SLASH> to anchor it by me adding a cleaner routine or you adding a </SLASH> tag to anchor it.

	-Brian

I am. I'm going to reload it from CVS tonight, and see if that fixes it. 
BTW - I could never get blob files to show up - I just had the straight 
SLASH code showing up in the html.

-Danny

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> Anyone else having problems with Blob Files not showing up anymore? The 
> tag exists in the HTML source, but does not display in a browser 
> window..........
> 
> 
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Well, the BLOBs do work. You have to have a </SLASH> at the end. Like:

<slash type="FILE" ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" 
TITLE="Part1">Rhythm Changes Patterns - Part1</SLASH>

something like that. The NAME tag doesn't seem to do anything anymore. 
It did when it slash first started having file support, but it seems to 
have dropped now.....

Danny Olewine wrote:

>I am. I'm going to reload it from CVS tonight, and see if that fixes it. 
>BTW - I could never get blob files to show up - I just had the straight 
>SLASH code showing up in the html.
>
>-Danny
>
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Anyone else having problems with Blob Files not showing up anymore? The 
>>tag exists in the HTML source, but does not display in a browser 
>>window..........
>>
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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 00:46, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, it seems that the neat Blob thing stopped 
> working in the CVS. Anything I have with as a <SLASH-FILE 
> ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Rhythm Changes Patterns - 
> Part 1">
> 
> Becomes
> 
> <slash type="FILE" ID="d5edce54731cb30cbbaa6a4ae7eae290" TITLE="Rhythm Changes Patterns - Part 1">
> 
> and doesn't show up in my browser, but it is in the source..........
> 
> Any ideas? I updated all the templates and it does not seem to work
Update the story (aka open it up in admin, then hit the update button).
See if it works then.

	-Brian
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:41:46PM -0500, George Clark wrote:
> By changing the default template from cl.gif  to cl[%
> user.bg.2.replace('#', '_') %].gif,  the file name is automatically
> merged with whatever color is specified in the background colors for the
> section.    Since the # in the color variable is not usable in a URL, the
> replace changes it to an underscore.
> 
> <IMG SRC="[% constants.imagedir %]/cl[% user.bg.2.replace('#', '_')
> %].gif" WIDTH= ....
> ...
> <IMG SRC="[% constants.imagedir %]/cr[% user.bg.2.replace('#', '_')
> %].gif" WIDTH= ....
> 
> To my surprise, it actually worked.   This is going to save me a boatload
> of work when upgrading templates.  I can get rid of almost all of my
> custom section templates.

It seems to me that you ought to be able to use %23 (ASCII '#' in hex)
in the URL and avoid the replace(). Haven't tried it, though.

-- Roger

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** Reply to message from "Roger H. Goun" <roger@...> on Sun, 23 Mar
2003 07:30:30 -0500


> It seems to me that you ought to be able to use %23 (ASCII '#' in hex)
> in the URL and avoid the replace(). Haven't tried it, though.

Hi Roger,

I think that the # is needed in the color value ....  yes.  Putting a %23
into the color field breaks other places that the color is used.  It
needs the # to be a valid color value, but can't use the # in a url.

George

Not sure why this didn't go thru the first time, but the second message made
it to the list, so I'm resending this one:

We're trying to get several of our sites upgraded from 2.2.6 to current CVS.
We have hit a few snags that we cannot get past.  Here are some of the error
messages we're getting (from various site logfiles):

DBI connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...)
failed: Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
DBI connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...)
failed: Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "selectall_arrayref" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
415.
Fri Mar 21 15:55:06 2003 message_delivery.pl: could not instantiate
Slash::Messages objectDBI
connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...) failed:
Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "quote" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
588.
DBI connect('database=spacesci;host=localhost','spacesci',...) failed: Too
many connections at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm
line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "selectall_arrayref" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
415.
DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/MySQL.pm line
7166.


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We're trying to get several of our sites upgraded from 2.2.6 to current CVS.
We have hit a few snags that we cannot get past.  Here are some of the error
messages we're getting (from various site logfiles):

DBI connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...)
failed: Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
DBI connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...)
failed: Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "selectall_arrayref" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
415.
Fri Mar 21 15:55:06 2003 message_delivery.pl: could not instantiate
Slash::Messages objectDBI
connect('database=geekizoid_slash;host=localhost','geekizoid',...) failed:
Too many connections at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "quote" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
588.
DBI connect('database=spacesci;host=localhost','spacesci',...) failed: Too
many connections at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/Password.pm
line 137
Major Mojo Bad things
unable to connect to MySQL:  : Too many connections
Can't call method "selectall_arrayref" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line
415.
DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd/Slash/DB/MySQL.pm line
7166.


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** Reply to message from "George Clark" <gac@...> on Thu, 20
Mar 2003 21:33:44 -0500


> After seeing all the positive comments on Slashcode,  I decided to try to
> jump from the latest R-tag  to current CVS.

Never mind.

Still not sure why,  but none of the perl scripts got copied into my site
directory. They were still all the older versions.  I've manually copied
the proper version, and it is improved, but not all is well.

Anyone know how you are supposed to add topics to an existing or new
section in the CVS version?  

Also,  has anyone noticed that the search for comments doesn't find
anything.  No errors, but no hits either. 

Search for Users works, but users with no journal entries get credited
for the last journal entry found in the prior user search.

George

** Reply to message from "George Clark" <gac@...> on Thu, 20
Mar 2003 22:11:17 -0500


> Also,  has anyone noticed that the search for comments doesn't find
> anything.  No errors, but no hits either.

Doh...    Now that I've worked backwards through the code.  Searching for
comments only searches the subject field, and not the comment text.   
Works fine if you know what you are searching for.

(  Sure would be nice if it would search the comment text as well )

George