Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Bug? Pages unexpectedly deleated...

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

OK.. what DBM library comes with FreeBSD? This becomes my first suspect.
More to the point, support for what DBM library is compiled into PHP?

I am going offline for a while so I may not reply until later today.

~swain


On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Jeb Bateman wrote:

> Steve Wainstead wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
> >> Eeek.
> >>
> >> Please tell us what backend (what type of database) you are using.
> >> Also which OS and which version of PHP your server is running might
> >> be of interest.
> >
> > I can see he's using the DBM library:
>
> Right.  It's also running in PHP 3.0.18 Apache 1.3.12 module under
> FreeBSD in an iServer Virtual Server environment.  I have MySQL running
> there also, so I could switch to that backend without much trouble...
>
> > I will try to reproduce this here on my box.
>
> Thanks..  There is one other clue I forgot to mention earlier.  I found
> that in this particular page, some unknown character had been introduced
> in the place of the spaces near the beginning of lines.  I copied this
> into an email message to for future reference, but unfortunately I was
> working in Netscape at the time (need to reboot into Linux), and think
> it may have converted it to a newline in the process.  Anyway, I have
> two zip dumps of the database, and at least one of them should contain a
> copy of the file with these characters present, if that would help(?)
>
> I'm pasting two example lines below, one with a space after the *, and
> the other with the unknown character, which may have been introduced
> when a user was confused by the edit conflict screen and ended up
> copying the text into Word Perfect and back.  I've turned
> quote-printable encoding on in this message in case that character is
> still after the second * below...
>
> * 52431 - 25 lbs - Maple Almond Granola (JebBateman)
> *
> 25743 - 2 cs - Reeds Premium Ginger Brew (1 - JebBateman, 1 - lyn)
>
> Regards,
> -jeb
>
>
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