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[Slashcode-development] Current CVS not making a valid Index.shtml?

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

The current CVS seems not to create a page with articles on it for 
anonymous users. It just does the side blocks. Any ideas? Yes, slashd is 
running and updating the file, and yes the templates are up to date.

 
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Re: [Slashcode-development] files with stories

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Oh. What do you mean that slash about no cgi? Couldn't I use like 
CGI::Upload http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-Upload to handle it?

This sounds like it might be a real problem to do...........and that 
doesn't sound good..........

shane wrote:

>There used to be some code in admin.pl to handle the file-upload of a file 
>through http. I don't think it was ever finished, or atleast, tested. Look 
>around, it may still be there and you may be able to use it.
>
>A while back I messed with doing file upload via http for the photo gallery 
>plugin that I started. I didn't get very far with it, because with slash you 
>can't just use cgi and use it to handle the file coming from the form.
>
>If you write the code to do file uploading, I would be eternally grateful to 
>you. I've just never had the time to get into it it more and get it written.
> 
> Shane
>

Re: [Slashcode-development] files with stories

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Monday 29 July 2002 02:17 am, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> I posted this on slashcode.com
> (http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/21/1755247&mode=thread&tid=4
>), but honestly seems like no one uses that site. In fact, seem that some
> kiddies are posting very rude comments on the site.......
>
> Anyhow, here is the question. I want to somehow get support for
> including files in posts. Krow hinted that it is kinda in there, but I
> don't see anything......
>
> How hard is this? What needs to be done? I think that would really take
> slash up a notch if it had file/story support. Then I could stop
> considering switching to moveabletype or something else........
>
> any info would be great. Thanks

There used to be some code in admin.pl to handle the file-upload of a file 
through http. I don't think it was ever finished, or atleast, tested. Look 
around, it may still be there and you may be able to use it.

A while back I messed with doing file upload via http for the photo gallery 
plugin that I started. I didn't get very far with it, because with slash you 
can't just use cgi and use it to handle the file coming from the form.

If you write the code to do file uploading, I would be eternally grateful to 
you. I've just never had the time to get into it it more and get it written.
 
 Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] files with stories

[Markus A. <mar...@ub...>]

eri...@ja... wrote:
> Anyhow, here is the question. I want to somehow get support for
> including files in posts. Krow hinted that it is kinda in there, but I
> don't see anything......

I would
a) create a dir for upload of files. Must be writable by the web user
(nobody).
b) modify the submit and author's story edit form to include a file
upload field. The file is placed in your upload dir, and it's name added
to a new column in the DB.
c) edit the storyprint (dunno it's exact name) function to display a
link to the file unless that field is empty.

Markus.

[Slashcode-development] files with stories

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

I posted this on slashcode.com 
(http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/21/1755247&mode=thread&tid=4), 
but honestly seems like no one uses that site. In fact, seem that some 
kiddies are posting very rude comments on the site.......

Anyhow, here is the question. I want to somehow get support for 
including files in posts. Krow hinted that it is kinda in there, but I 
don't see anything......

How hard is this? What needs to be done? I think that would really take 
slash up a notch if it had file/story support. Then I could stop 
considering switching to moveabletype or something else........

any info would be great. Thanks

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Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

[Slashcode-development] Comments.pl problem in current CVS?

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

[Mon Jul 22 19:42:27 2002] [error] Invalid [] range "]-+" in 
transliteration operator at 
/usr/local/slash/site//www.jazz-sax.com/htdocs/comments.pl line 829.  

I'm using Perl 5.8.0

I now get apache error 500 when replying to comments


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Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
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flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

[Slashcode-development] [PATCH] freebsd startup script

[Chia-liang K. <cl...@cl...>]

attached is the patch that makes the startup script works correctly on
freebsd. note that the pid of the running slashd is still wrong, and
you need to give the accoutn $USERNAME a valid shell.

RCS file: /cvsroot/slashcode/slash/utils/slash,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 slash
--- slash       8 Jan 2002 17:22:10 -0000       1.10
+++ slash       7 Jul 2002 19:28:16 -0000
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@
                        # if you aren't using GMT for internal dates, please change
                        # the appropriate lines, below.
                        if [ "$OS" = "FreeBSD" ] ; then
-                               su - $USERNAME "-c 'TZ=GMT $SLASHD $SERVER_NAME'" &
+                               env TZ=GMT su $USERNAME -c "$SLASHD $SERVER_NAME" &
                        elif [ "$OS" = "Linux" ] ; then 
                                su - $USERNAME -c "TZ=GMT $SLASHD $SERVER_NAME" &
                        else


Cheers,
CLK

[Slashcode-development] [PATCH] postcomment filters too strict for non-english sites

[Chia-liang K. <cl...@cl...>]

Hi,

there are several filters too strict for non-english sites. I could
manually remove them from the content_filter table. but the hardcoded
checks for the existence of non-whitespace below should be patched.

Index: themes/slashcode/htdocs/comments.pl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/slashcode/slash/themes/slashcode/htdocs/comments.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -r1.70 comments.pl
--- themes/slashcode/htdocs/comments.pl 3 Jul 2002 07:26:55 -0000       1.70
+++ themes/slashcode/htdocs/comments.pl 14 Jul 2002 19:40:26 -0000
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@
        for ($$comm, $$subj) {
                my $d = decode_entities($_);
                $d =~ s/&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;//g;    # remove entities we don't know
-               if ($d !~ /\w/) {               # require SOME non-whitespace
+               if ($d !~ /\S/) {               # require SOME non-whitespace
                        $$error_message = getError('no body');
                        return;
                }


Cheers,
CLK

[Slashcode-development] syndic8.com and Toolkit information

[Alessio B. <al...@se...>]

syndic8 is a directory of syndicated news headlines, including feeds
from weblogs. They also keep track of 'toolkits', i.e. software used
to run the site/feed.

http://www.syndic8.com/toolkits.php

To have Slash counted, we should insert a comment in the RSS feed with
the software name/version.

Your opinion?

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From: "Jeff Barr" <je...@ve...>
Mailing-List: list sy...@ya...; contact syn...@ya...
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:43:24 -0700
Subject: Re: [syndic8] Help from an editor

The toolkit information comes from the site's RSS. You need to update
your XML template so that it includes a generator comment that
looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- generator="Movable Type/2.11" -->
<rss version="0.91">

Jeff;

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Re: [Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems]

[Jesse H. <je...@op...>]

yesterday i tried my first stab at moving from 2.2.5 to cvs. i tried to
take some notes, explicitly focusing on filling in sql/mysql/upgrades and
i will post said notes on my user journal on slashcode.com shortly.

however i wanted to continue this thread, as it was also the primary
problem i ran into after upgrading. i had the same types of errors that
Eric D. describes. i also ran the command line cliff suggests below, and
on the admin user created with this new 2.3 install i received all of that
users info. however when i ran the same line on a uid that i imported from
the 2.2.5 site i get:

$VAR1 = undef;

looking through my heavily populated error log i can surmise that some of
the problems/errors may relate to zoo as my past userbase didn't have
information like the people column

also seeing erros like this:

DBD::mysql::db selectall_arrayref failed: You have an error in your SQL
syntax near '' at line 1
 at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 408.
 [Thu Jun 13 01:30:44 2002] [error]

/users.pl:Slash::DB::MySQL:/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/MySQL.pm:5445:SELECT
name,value FROM
users_acl WHERE uid=
 [Thu Jun 13 01:30:44 2002] [error] Which was called
by:Apache::ROOTlearning_2eopenflows_2eorg::users_2epl:/usr/local/slash/site/learning.openflows.org
/htdocs/users.pl:733:SELECT name,value FROM users_acl WHERE uid=

as well as

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
'AND users_index.uid= AND
users_info.uid= AND users_hits.uid= AND users_comments.' at line 1 at
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 351.
[Thu Jun 13 01:30:41 2002] [error]
/users.pl:Slash::DB::MySQL:/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/MySQL.pm:5432:SELECT
* FROM
users,users_index,users_info,users_hits,users_comments,users_prefs WHERE
users.uid= AND
users_index.uid= AND users_info.uid= AND users_hits.uid= AND
users_comments.uid= AND
users_prefs.uid=
[Thu Jun 13 01:30:41 2002] [error] Which was called
by:Apache::ROOTlearning_2eopenflows_2eorg::users_2epl:/usr/local/slash/site/learning.openflows.org
/htdocs/users.pl:733:SELECT * FROM
users,users_index,users_info,users_hits,users_comments,users_prefs
WHERE users.uid= AND users_index.uid= AND users_info.uid= AND
users_hits.uid= AND users_comments.uid=
AND users_prefs.uid=


anyhow, will keep on playing and will write up my notes shortly

jesse/laotan

  1:06pm  up 142 days,  4:43, 16 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.30, 0.19

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Clifton Wood wrote:

> On Friday 03 May 2002 17:13, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> > yes, I have.
> >
> > The big problem seems to be users created before I updated the software.
> > They can't seem to login or anything. Nothing works right for them. Even
> > admin users.
> >
> > If you create a NEW user, then everything is great. Works fine. I'm
> > trying to figure out what is going on but nothing so far.........
>
> Weird.
>
> Try this, delete all of the cookies associated with your old users, then
> re-login to the site again.
>
> Just on a lark, could you show me what you get when you do the following:
>
> "perl -MSlash::Test=<your virtual user here> -le 'print
> Dumper($slashdb->getUser(2)'"
>
> - Cliff
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems]

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Again, this was over a month ago.

I did do that, and it made no difference. I would be user ().

I ended up purging the user database, and keeping the uids of people who 
submitted comments.



Clifton Wood wrote:

>On Friday 03 May 2002 17:13, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>  
>
>>yes, I have.
>>
>>The big problem seems to be users created before I updated the software.
>>They can't seem to login or anything. Nothing works right for them. Even
>>admin users.
>>
>>If you create a NEW user, then everything is great. Works fine. I'm
>>trying to figure out what is going on but nothing so far.........
>>    
>>
>
>Weird. 
>
>Try this, delete all of the cookies associated with your old users, then 
>re-login to the site again.
>
>Just on a lark, could you show me what you get when you do the following:
>
>"perl -MSlash::Test=<your virtual user here> -le 'print 
>Dumper($slashdb->getUser(2)'"
>
>- Cliff
>
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>
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possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

Re: [Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems]

[Clifton W. <cl...@sl...>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 17:13, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> yes, I have.
>
> The big problem seems to be users created before I updated the software.
> They can't seem to login or anything. Nothing works right for them. Even
> admin users.
>
> If you create a NEW user, then everything is great. Works fine. I'm
> trying to figure out what is going on but nothing so far.........

Weird. 

Try this, delete all of the cookies associated with your old users, then 
re-login to the site again.

Just on a lark, could you show me what you get when you do the following:

"perl -MSlash::Test=<your virtual user here> -le 'print 
Dumper($slashdb->getUser(2)'"

- Cliff

Re: [Slashcode-development] Slashd quitting

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Not to be totally rude, but this was like a MONTH ago............

I since fixed it. It actually a problem with the CVS version not 
correctly linking/installing the new tasks and related .pl files.


Clifton Wood wrote:

>On Friday 03 May 2002 03:55, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey all, I was brave enough to attempt to convert my 2.2.5 slash sites to
>>the current CVS. Everything seems well so far except that the slashd keeps
>>quitting with this message:
>>
>>Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting slashd with pid 81566
>>Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting up Slashd (verbosity 2) with pid 81566
>>Fri May  3 07:51:22 2002 processed
>>/usr/local/slash/site/www.jazz-sax.com/tasks; 23 successful Invalid
>>cronentry '*/15' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Schedule/Cron.pm
>>line 621.
>>
>>Now, I installed all the plugins on this site. Could that be the problem?
>>The other site slashds are running fine. What do I do to fix this?
>>    
>>
>
>This is a problem with Schedule::Cron which has yet to be corrected, the 
>thing to do here would be to replace the "*" with the appropriate range for 
>the given field.
>
>So if "*/15" is the minute part of the timespec, use "0-59/15" instead.
>
>- Cliff
>
>_______________________________________________________________
>
>Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference
>August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm
>
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>


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Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

Re: [Slashcode-development] Slashd quitting

[Clifton W. <cl...@sl...>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 03:55, you wrote:
> Hey all, I was brave enough to attempt to convert my 2.2.5 slash sites to
> the current CVS. Everything seems well so far except that the slashd keeps
> quitting with this message:
>
> Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting slashd with pid 81566
> Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting up Slashd (verbosity 2) with pid 81566
> Fri May  3 07:51:22 2002 processed
> /usr/local/slash/site/www.jazz-sax.com/tasks; 23 successful Invalid
> cronentry '*/15' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Schedule/Cron.pm
> line 621.
>
> Now, I installed all the plugins on this site. Could that be the problem?
> The other site slashds are running fine. What do I do to fix this?

This is a problem with Schedule::Cron which has yet to be corrected, the 
thing to do here would be to replace the "*" with the appropriate range for 
the given field.

So if "*/15" is the minute part of the timespec, use "0-59/15" instead.

- Cliff

Re: [Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems]

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

yes, I have.

The big problem seems to be users created before I updated the software. 
They can't seem to login or anything. Nothing works right for them. Even 
admin users.

If you create a NEW user, then everything is great. Works fine. I'm 
trying to figure out what is going on but nothing so far.........


i18n wrote:

>I still get the list but I am still using Bender but ....
>
>Have you checked the contents of the DB directly in the appropriate tables to compare all field values between the old and new IDs? maybe there is an unexpected  difference.
>
>Barry
>
>At 01:08 PM 5/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Ok, some things have stablized. The thing that is driving me nuts is that my usual user id, 2, doesn't work at all. I log in with the password, and nothing works. No admin menus. The "Page generated by a flock of geeze" thing has a () next to it. It is messed up.
>>
>>However, if I create a NEW user, and give it admin rights, it works fine...........
>>
>>Am I missing something? Does anyone still get this list?
>>    
>>
>
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Bureaucrats cut red tape, lengthwise
Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com







-- 
-----
Bureaucrats cut red tape, lengthwise
Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

Re: [Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

I still get the list but I am still using Bender but ....

Have you checked the contents of the DB directly in the appropriate tables to compare all field values between the old and new IDs? maybe there is an unexpected  difference.

Barry

At 01:08 PM 5/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Ok, some things have stablized. The thing that is driving me nuts is that my usual user id, 2, doesn't work at all. I log in with the password, and nothing works. No admin menus. The "Page generated by a flock of geeze" thing has a () next to it. It is messed up.
>
>However, if I create a NEW user, and give it admin rights, it works fine...........
>
>Am I missing something? Does anyone still get this list?

[Slashcode-development] more 2.2.5 to cvs problems

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Ok, some things have stablized. The thing that is driving me nuts is 
that my usual user id, 2, doesn't work at all. I log in with the 
password, and nothing works. No admin menus. The "Page generated by a 
flock of geeze" thing has a () next to it. It is messed up.

However, if I create a NEW user, and give it admin rights, it works 
fine...........

Am I missing something? Does anyone still get this list?

[Slashcode-development] Slashd quitting

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Hey all, I was brave enough to attempt to convert my 2.2.5 slash sites to the current CVS. Everything seems well so far except that the slashd keeps quitting with this message:

Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting slashd with pid 81566
Fri May  3 07:51:21 2002 Starting up Slashd (verbosity 2) with pid 81566
Fri May  3 07:51:22 2002 processed /usr/local/slash/site/www.jazz-sax.com/tasks; 23 successful
Invalid cronentry '*/15' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Schedule/Cron.pm line 621.

Now, I installed all the plugins on this site. Could that be the problem? The other site slashds are running fine. What do I do to fix this?

Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: cvs devel branch

[Jesse H. <je...@op...>]

hey kevin, thanks, that was indeed the problem. i dropped the accesslog
table, recreated it, and everything's fine now...

i guess another option would have been to use myisamchk?

jesse

  6:22am  up 53 days, 23:25,  6 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.23, 0.16


On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Kevin Tam wrote:

> The last time I had something like that was when Mysql databases got
> corrupted! You can confirm if this is the case by going into a Mysql shell
> and try running some simple SQL queries on those tables. If they fail, you
> will need to fix that
>
> Kevin
> >
> >  10:01pm  up 53 days, 15:05,  7 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: cvs devel branch

[Kevin T. <kt...@do...>]

The last time I had something like that was when Mysql databases got
corrupted! You can confirm if this is the case by going into a Mysql shell
and try running some simple SQL queries on those tables. If they fail, you
will need to fix that

Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Hirsh" <je...@op...>
To: <sla...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: [Slashcode-development] Re: cvs devel branch


>
> so i spent a little time today hacking with the latest cvs in the main
> (devel) branch. one of the sites i've been playing with is one i keep
> updating with each cvs update, just as a learning exercise. currently
> however i've come across a little error that i'm stuck on and coulse use
> some pointers.
>
> it occurs when i try to run the task adminmail.pl
>
> slashd.log gives me:
>
>
> Sun Mar 17 03:04:21 2002 runtask adminmail.pl begin
> Sun Mar 17 03:04:21 2002 runtask Send Admin Mail Begin
> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Can't open file: 'accesslog.MYD'. (errno:
> 145) at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 277.
> Error in
> library:Slash::Stats:/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm:161:SELECT
> count(*) FROM accesslog WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1
> Which was called
> by:main:/usr/local/slash/site/neksis.com/tasks/adminmail.pl:32:SELECT
> count(*) FROM accesslog WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1
> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Can't open file: 'accesslog.MYD'. (errno:
> 145) at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 255.
> Error in
> library:Slash::Stats:/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm:164:SELECT
> count(*)    FROM accesslog   WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1 GROUP BY
> host_addr
> Which was called
> by:main:/usr/local/slash/site/neksis.com/tasks/adminmail.pl:32:SELECT
> count(*)    FROM accesslog   WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1 GROUP BY
> host_addr
> Can't call method "rows" on an undefined value at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm line 166.
>
> any hints? or tips?
>
> jesse
>
>
>  10:01pm  up 53 days, 15:05,  7 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
>
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[Slashcode-development] Re: cvs devel branch

[Jesse H. <je...@op...>]

so i spent a little time today hacking with the latest cvs in the main
(devel) branch. one of the sites i've been playing with is one i keep
updating with each cvs update, just as a learning exercise. currently
however i've come across a little error that i'm stuck on and coulse use
some pointers.

it occurs when i try to run the task adminmail.pl

slashd.log gives me:


Sun Mar 17 03:04:21 2002 runtask adminmail.pl begin
Sun Mar 17 03:04:21 2002 runtask Send Admin Mail Begin
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Can't open file: 'accesslog.MYD'. (errno:
145) at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 277.
Error in
library:Slash::Stats:/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm:161:SELECT
count(*) FROM accesslog WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1
Which was called
by:main:/usr/local/slash/site/neksis.com/tasks/adminmail.pl:32:SELECT
count(*) FROM accesslog WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Can't open file: 'accesslog.MYD'. (errno:
145) at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/DB/Utility.pm line 255.
Error in
library:Slash::Stats:/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm:164:SELECT
count(*)    FROM accesslog   WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1 GROUP BY
host_addr
Which was called
by:main:/usr/local/slash/site/neksis.com/tasks/adminmail.pl:32:SELECT
count(*)    FROM accesslog   WHERE to_days(now()) - to_days(ts)=1 GROUP BY
host_addr
Can't call method "rows" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Stats.pm line 166.

any hints? or tips?

jesse


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[Slashcode-development] Sections, Anchor.pm and SlashSectionHost

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

I'm trying to determine where the "appropriate" place is to determine a 
user's current section, and I'm getting confused:

in the current slash series:

If I look at $user->{currentSection}, it is set when header() is called.

  the line is:  $user->{currentSection} = $section || '';
  where section was passed to header().

in the devel slash series:

there's the SlashSectionHost call that will hard-wire the section because 
of the URL. It sets

  $new_cfg->{defaultsection} = $section;

and Anchor.pm still has  $user->{currentSection} = $section || '';
   where section was *passed* to header().



Which leads me to think that getting $user->{currentSection} is *always* up 
to the perl script running at the time to get the section set correctly. So 
I cannot do the following:


sub main {
     my $constants = getCurrentStatic();
     my $slashdb   = getCurrentDB();
     my $user      = getCurrentUser();

and expect that $user->{currentSection}, at this point in time, is correct.

Only after calling header() in the script will $user->{currentSection}
be correct.



Am I understanding this correctly? Or what did I miss?

What I am looking for is the correct way to obtain what section a user is 
in (so as to display the correct section-related data in a calendar for them).

I had always thought this was easy - check the $form data for
$form->{section}, look it up with $slashdb->getSection(),
check the return for validity and you're set.

But with the new Apache directive (which is very cool, btw) it would seem 
to me that $user->{currentSection} should immediately be populated with 
that section that the user's in, if they're in a section.sitename.blah

And it also seems that any script that needs to know the current section 
(ie index.pl) would have to do something like

         my $section;
         if ($form->{section}) {
                 $section = $slashdb->getSection($form->{section});
         } else {
                 $section->{section} = $constants->{defaultsection};
         }

instead of


         my $section;
         if ($form->{section}) {
                 $section = $slashdb->getSection($form->{section});
         } else {
                 $section->{section} = 'index';
                 $section->{issue} = 1;
         }

while other scripts just do:

  header("$constants->{sitename}", $form->{section});

and don't bother to lookup what's being passed to them via the form.

I couldn't test the devel setup with the newer Apache directive, I've got 
no box that I can run slash>2.2.5 on at this time. (though I did try 
something like http://apache.slashdot.org/?section=features and it listed 
as it should)
so I think I'm missing something...

please help!

  Shane

[Slashcode-development] NNTP

[Matthew S. <mat...@ze...>]

A long time ago in a Slashcode far away (0.3), I wrote a program
called newsd which implemented NNTP support for Slash.  It was
never really used by anyone and wasn't updated when Slash 1.0 was
released.  Until today.

I've taken up the project again, this time under the name NNTB
(Network News Transport for 'Blogs), as the new version will be
usable with other systems such as Scoop.

The Slash-specific portion of NNTB is done - done in the sense
that all the methods are implemented and it compiles, anyway.
Since I'm not terribly familiar with Slash, it might be a good
idea if the gurus would take a look at it.  There are two
components, a standalone daemon and a Slash plugin.  The daemon
part isn't done yet.

The code is at http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nntb/, or:

	cvs -d :pserver:ano...@ze...:/home/cvs
	(Password is 'cvs')
	cvs -z3 -d :pserver:ano...@ze...:/home/cvs co nntb

I'd like to emphasize that this is very much a work in progress,
and probably won't even run at this point.  The main thing I'm
interested in now is opinions on the NNTB::Weblog API, my
implementation of the Slash-specific bits, and the general design.

Thanks.

-- 
Matthew Sachs   <mat...@ze...>  <mat...@wo...>
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[Slashcode-development] Slash on PostgreSQL up AND RUNNING

[Chahine M. H. <mc...@ch...>]

Ok but with some bugs here and there, granted. That said, you can see
the site and use many parts of it.

I guess I must submit the patches to sourceforge?

One of the current problems I have is with persistent connections.

In Utility.pm, the part that defines the sqlConnect and checks for an
existing connection makes my apache segfault... I have no idea why, I
don't know if it's a bug that is due to a slash-postgresql related bug
or not. In any case, when I remove that part between
#Ok, first let's see if we already have a connection

and

#Ok, new connection, let's create it

it works well. The problem is, correct me if I'm wrong, the connection
isn't persistent anymore, right? That's a performance serious prob.

In order to correct this, I have to understand the mechanism behind
this. One of the things that troubles me is the structure of the $self
object used. PLEASE one of the developers who's familiar with
slashcode's internals save me sometime, personal life aside, I have both
a job and a university to work for too, so I can't spend a full day
searching everytime I need to understand a little problem. I'm only
asking for pointers, i.e. tell me where I can find the given info (I
would even be grateful for a "take a look at file xxx or read page/url
xxxx").

Best regards,
Chahine

PS: the sqlReplace is a headache to recode, I think it's easier to
recode every function that uses it instead... any better idea?

[Slashcode-development] Slashcode 2.2.5 on postgresql

[Chahine M. H. <mc...@ch...>]

Hi there,

if this is not the right place for asking, please direct me to the
correct source (I have posted twice requests for help on the slashcode
site and I understand they were ignored).

I finally got through the whole install process smoothly using
PostgreSQL. I had to do a lot of changes, mainly on the *.sql files (the
schema among others was very much out of date), but also some at the
perl source level. I should be able to post patches soon, but there's a
little problem.

I simply can't start apache. I get a syntax error of the kind:

Starting web server: apache.
Syntax error on line 22 of
/usr/local/slash/site/www.net.loc/www.net.loc.conf:
Argument is not an Apache or Apache::Server object at
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Utility/Environment.pm line 597.
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

I've spent last night searching and I'm about to give up which would be
a pity after I invested a couple of days work on it and I feel I'm close
from making the site run on PostgreSQL (well, there are still a few
changes to make but hey, I'm close).

All I could gather as information is that the directive
SlashVirtualUser admin
fails at the getCurrentAnonymousCoward function call, where the
reference Apache->request sends nothing.

Where should I go from here?

Thanks,
Chahine