Womens forum is down

Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 7:47 pm

I was in the control panel updating the summary page for the womens forum. When I submitted the changes the forum quit running. This has always been a permissions problem. I checked the permissions on the file I changed (Forum7/forumstyles.file) and it was like rw-rw-rw which is wrong. It should have been rwx-rx-rx (or 755). I went to run chmod on the file and the server wouldn't let me run the command. Obviously Harry's new internet provider has some work to do in this regard. Unfortunatley, I cannot get the forum to run without the permissions being set properly. What is also unfortunate is that this will impact the other forums as well, though it won't impact it unless changes are made. I looked at the file and my changes made it in there but the UBBS isn't pulling the information out of the file to run the forum. Permissions problem.

Tony

Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 9:17 pm

Actually, now that I think about it. The problem is probably related to the Forum not being able to set permissions. If I (gmattson) couldn't from the shell then neither could the ubbs (aka Nobody in Unix). Someone needs to find out why CHMOD is no longer available to gmattson.

I looked in some of the other directories and the forumstyles.file was not in there. "Nobody" (the UBB) must have created the file when I sumbitted something other then the default setting and tried to write the proper permissions to it.

Tony

Scott Danziger · Post by **Scott Danziger** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 10:26 pm

Tony,

Do you need the "Administrator" title to access certain maintenance areas?

Allen M. · Post by **Allen M.** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 11:05 pm

Had problems earllier, but the entire net was flakey for awhile.

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Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 11:16 pm

Scott. Yes.

Scott Danziger · Post by **Scott Danziger** » Sun Jun 18, 2000 11:47 pm

Tony, then I guess it's time to put them captain bars back on

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Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Mon Jun 19, 2000 12:37 am

Scott. nope. I was just trying to help. I needed a forum crash like I needed a hole in the head... hah hah

Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Mon Jun 19, 2000 1:31 am

I moved the file forumstyles.file out of the /Forum7 directory and the forum came back up. *sheesh* what a pain. Harry needs to figure out the CHMOD problem before the UBBS can create new files I think. Anyway, for the time being, there cannot be a webring link in the womens forum.

Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Mon Jun 19, 2000 6:30 am

Womans forum Logo is not gonna be back until I can re-submit the forum styles.

Post by **gmattson** » Mon Jun 19, 2000 11:05 pm

Tony:
Spoke with Harry. He fixed whatever was not working. . . . Hope it works!

George

Lori · Post by **Lori** » Tue Jun 20, 2000 4:20 am

Still some minor problems whenever Harry (or anyone?) has a chance to work on the forum again - in the interim the logo has been lost - and - also most of the prior posts! I was in the process of archiving a few things from the past couple years and currently I can't get much farther back than late last year... any help appreciated! I was able to access posts from 1998 just last week.

Thanks,
Lori

Lori · Post by **Lori** » Tue Jun 20, 2000 4:24 am

Okay - nevermind on the old posts thing - that came back - (I have no idea how) but still would like to see the logo again when possible - Tony did such a great job on it!

Allen M. · Post by **Allen M.** » Tue Jun 20, 2000 5:50 am

Time to ask for a raise, paid vacation, and sick benefits, Tony...

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Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Tue Jun 20, 2000 6:23 am

Ok, the logo is fixed. I can't put the HTML code in the footer wihtout crashing the forum. I don't know why. I'd have to go to UBB tech support and find out why the footer isn't taking HTML.

Tony

Tony-San · Post by **Tony-San** » Wed Jun 21, 2000 3:39 am

I think the reason I can't add the HTML to the footer is because the HTML is bad.

http://www.scriptkeeper.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/004637.html

Tony