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Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 07:52 PM

ok, the NEW club server is running.
please report any bugs and unusual behavior right here in this thread!

thanks,
Andy

Posted by: Qarl Nov 6 2003, 08:04 PM

Bugs and errors...

You get some sort of SMTP Mail Script error when posting messages. Users think you are not able to post and therefore submit a second time.... generating a duplicate post...

Posted by: redshift Nov 6 2003, 08:04 PM

Unreachable all day, even for members.


M

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 08:08 PM

yepp, i'm on that one ...

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 08:11 PM

grrrrr, where is it still getting that old email from ?????

argh

Posted by: Mark Henry Nov 6 2003, 08:14 PM

Getting a lot of "this page cannot be displayed"

And it was a total bitch logging on. ( ya, I know, great day to dump my net temp files and cookies)

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 6 2003, 08:21 PM

Andy, I have to log in every time I visit, and when I click on the first unread post icon it always sends me to the first post on topic, then the unread post icon doesn't go away.

Posted by: ThinAir914 Nov 6 2003, 08:34 PM

This is a new behaviour, but a welcome one. It used to be that if I looked at a topic and used the back button to go back to the list I would get different behaviors depending upon which browser I was using. IE6 would go back and show me the previous page just the way I left it. Mozilla would go back, but always go back to the top of the page. Now Mozilla remembers how far down the page I was. That's nice!

Posted by: redshift Nov 6 2003, 08:40 PM

Keeps crashing it seems, every couple minutes.



lMnop

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 08:47 PM

hmmmmm.

1) i think it now actually jumps to the last post you read in a thread, not just the very last one in line.

2) i get that too. i'll have to look into that.


anything else?
Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 08:49 PM

i was still stopping/restarting the service ...

should be stable now,
Andy

Posted by: redshift Nov 6 2003, 08:51 PM

You are evil then, Evil doer.


M

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 08:56 PM

i don't disagree ...

Posted by: Jon Hirst Nov 6 2003, 09:35 PM

Jeepers - I just joined yesterday and I couldn't even get on today to have a look around with my newly anointed "registered member" powers of enhanced BBS display !

Ahhh - but now the site is on the new server and all is well.

Now if you will excuse me I have 3 more pages of the "members cars" posts to go over and a Mr. Gints "rust-oration" thread to study.

The Admin and members are to be congratulated on both your great site and the entertaining conversations.

Thanks.

Jon (rookie but glad to be here )

Posted by: krk Nov 6 2003, 09:53 PM

Andy,

First, my alternator still doesn't work. You probably need need a new server. Check with Brad on this -- he's probably forgotten.

Secondly, I had to put in almost a full day at work. Let's not make a habit of this "outage" thing, eh?

Other than that, it seems fine.

kim.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 10:01 PM

welcome jon, you've come to the right place!

Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 10:02 PM

didn't you read the fine-print when you signed up?

Posted by: krk Nov 6 2003, 10:09 PM

Nah, I just figured that when you switched to the new server, many wrongs (and failed alternators are definitely in the "wrong" category) would be righted.

Glad to see the new gear is running well! I'm sure the switch was more fun than you're letting on.... :-)

kim.

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 6 2003, 10:20 PM

Lessee if this posts...

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 6 2003, 10:21 PM

Works like a charm!!!

Great job Andy

Make sure you have a couple of

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 6 2003, 10:57 PM

I'll be buying him those

Thanks Andy. I think you know how important this place is to me.


B

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 6 2003, 10:58 PM

working on it as we speak.

Posted by: GWN7 Nov 7 2003, 12:01 AM

After I have read a thread and then click on the forum bar (either top or bottom of the page) it takes me back to the forums listings. There is a red box at the begining of each the threads. (Not the envelope one) This used to change colour, indicating (to me ) that I had read that thread. Now it stays red??

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 12:16 AM

yepp, i get that too.

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 7 2003, 06:36 AM

Andy, it's still doing the same thing. If I click on the red unread post box it takes me to the first post in the the thread only if it's one page. If it's a two page thread it goes to the first unread post. When I hit my back button the red box is still there.

I still have to log in everytime

Posted by: Lawrence Nov 7 2003, 06:51 AM

Andy,

Thanks for your work on this.

Servers & software cost money. Do you need any to help defray club costs?

-Rusty

Posted by: Mark Henry Nov 7 2003, 06:55 AM

Same here, sometimes more than once.

Plus the envelopes don't work for me as well.

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 7 2003, 07:11 AM

Yes Andy, Thanks for all your work on the site all the time. Ok, thanks to the rest of you admin guys too!

Sorry, I can't help with cash at this time

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 7 2003, 08:00 AM

Andy,

I think you need to look into the e-mail...
I no longer get "subcription e-mails"
And the e-mail function on the classifieds doesn't seem to work either

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 7 2003, 08:01 AM

Yep, just took five times to log in.

Posted by: Bruce Allert Nov 7 2003, 09:00 AM

Looks like the calendar is advancing slow. At 7 AM it says it is the 6th of Nov when it's the 7th.
bruce

Posted by: fiid Nov 7 2003, 11:12 AM

Looks pretty good to me. Awesome work guys!

Posted by: airsix Nov 7 2003, 12:02 PM

Andy,
You I see you closed up the SMB ports, but you you've got some other open ports that really should be closed on the public side.
You've got unencrypted X11 open on ports 6000 and 6001. I'd definitely close those. Also, the mysql server is open on port 3306. You can close this on the external interface since apache accesses it via the localhost, not the public interface (same for X windows, though I wouldn't even have X on a server like this - use ssh for everything). Sunrpc is open on port 111, and you should probably just kill that service as well. VNC is unencrypted and open on 5801 and 5901. Like I said about X - I'd kill these services and just use ssh for any remote work. I don't have any experience with redhat's webmin (on your port 10000) so I can't really comment on it, but basically I close up eveyrthing but ssh, http, and https.

I hope this analysis is usefull and doesn't offend.

-Ben

Posted by: fiid Nov 7 2003, 12:35 PM

I would close everything except HTTP, HTTPS and SSH - unless you are running a mail server. I have more different advice on that.

Fiid.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 12:56 PM

it will take a few days to figure this out ...




huh? the cookie works for me! anyone else has that problem?
do you have cookies turned off? too strict IEe security settings? didn't check the "keep my login info" checkbox?

Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 12:57 PM

hmmm ...

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 7 2003, 01:01 PM

cookies are enabled
security settings are where they always have been
checked the keep my log in box

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 01:07 PM

i know i know, no offense taken. thing is, while setting this thing up, i don't care about holes and open ports. i use the X and remote VNC to finish the setup of the box. same with mySQL, i remotely log in. same with webmin etc etc.

once the damm thing works right, i'll be closing it down.

see, you can't really (well, not with our time and budget restrains anyways) set up the box compeltely until it's in place at the colo.

so, just look at it as work in progress ...
Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 01:37 PM

ok, on the remeber login problem,

make sure you delete ALL old 914club cookies, then close ALL browser windows, open your browser again and log in.

this worked fine for me.
what OS/Browser combo are you cookie-problem guys running?

Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 01:38 PM

i think that's because the main DNS (including MX records) has not yet been switched to the colo. still runs off brads box at home ...

Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 01:39 PM

yes we will/do.
advice please ...

Andy

Posted by: Andyrew Nov 7 2003, 02:11 PM

Dont know if anyone said this before, but the "New" threads have the main wording in the center and not on the left, the words under them are fine though..

Andrwe

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 7 2003, 02:38 PM

DNS is done.

Soon everything will break...LOL


B

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 7 2003, 02:43 PM

huh?

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 7 2003, 02:46 PM

I've seen this happen on rare occasions before, I just exit and reopen and it fixes itself.

Andy, I've deleted all cookies and temp int files, relogged in. no change.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 7 2003, 03:02 PM

Reboot the machine...LOL

Mine works fine. I actually havent seen ANY of these issues... (I"m lucky I guess)


B

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 7 2003, 06:41 PM

Yep, I've got log-in trouble NOW...
I clean my computer from some unwanted crap and cleared all cookies too
Now I need to log-in every time I visit this site (we had this issue in the very early days)
Weird, cause BEFORE I cleaned my cookies, it worked fine...

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Aaron Cox Nov 7 2003, 08:29 PM

it wont "fade" the psts that i just read

Posted by: Qarl Nov 8 2003, 09:42 AM

New problem...

search for all posts by a user displays results in an unusual order... it's not chronologically.

I think it searches at first, for the most recent post by the user, THEN, it scans through that thread and displays all results from that thread... and then goes to the next most recent post.

I think it should display posts in chronological order only.

Posted by: dsmeyer Nov 9 2003, 10:00 AM

I've got this same problem now.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 9 2003, 02:20 PM

nope, old problem. never did that right ...

werking on the cookies.
Andy

Posted by: TimT Nov 9 2003, 03:42 PM

I just posted some stuff in the classifieds.

Photos arent displaying, and I got these error messages

Warning: Unable to create 'D:\inetpub\www.914world.com\classifieds\image\817.jpg': Permission denied in /var/www/html/classifieds/list.php on line 78

Warning: imagejpeg: unable to open 'D:\inetpub\www.914world.com\classifieds\image\thumb\817.jpg' for writing in /var/www/html/classifieds/common.php on line 167

Oh yea feel free to buy my stuff!!

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 9 2003, 04:05 PM

This sucks. I cant help. The classifieds ar pointing to the old server for the pics.


B

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 9 2003, 04:26 PM

FIXED!

the path was hardcoded instead of read out of a ini file.
i wonder who would do such thing?

Andy

Posted by: seanery Nov 9 2003, 09:01 PM

The "go to first unread message" arrows work now.

Posted by: fiid Nov 10 2003, 12:03 PM

Well - you probably want to open port 25 for SMTP, 143 for IMAP, and I use some 900 series ports for IMAP and SMTP over SSL.

I would advise running Postfix for mail instead of sendmail. It is quite a lot more secure. I run sendmail because I have an older installation and I haven't got the balls or time to do a migration :-(.

I use the cyrus imap server for mail - which is really fast and works nicely with outlook express or any other imap client. I use it with mail stored on a "reiser" filesystem, which is super efficient - it is basically a database with a filesystem front-end. Reiser also stores files in sub-sector space - so large numbers of small files do not use exteremely large amounts of space like with other systems.

Using this system I am able to very quickly access mailboxes with in excess of 10000 messages, which are located on the server, and are accessible from clients running all over (I typically have a connection from work, office at home, garage, at the same time).

One you have a working imap and smtp server (oh - you can use pop from cyrus too), you can hook up the stuff at http://www.horde.org to run webmail. I have this set up on my home system, and it is providing address book and email functionality. Horde also had to-do and calendaring functionality, and will support authentication from the imap server, or ldap or other authentication.

This is a lot for one post, anyways - I can give you an account on my machine if you want to see how it's all setup, or walk you through the bits.

Posted by: morgan Nov 10 2003, 12:17 PM

Not getting form email to me wwhen new topics come up
JM

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 10 2003, 01:16 PM

yepp, werking on it ...

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 10 2003, 01:17 PM

call me strange, but don't you think that's kinda overkill for a mailserver that only sends out notification emails to bbs users ?????

Andy

Posted by: fiid Nov 10 2003, 04:54 PM

oh. right then.

mailserver != mailserver

Wasn't sure if you were going to set up @914world.com addresses and have it do webmail and stuff or if you just needed a relay.

If you just want a relay run postfix (and forget about everything else I said).

Posted by: fiid Nov 10 2003, 04:56 PM

Oh - and make sure only the BBS can use it. Unless you are recieving mail - turn off external access to port 25.

Otherwise people can start abusing you as a spam relay which is bad juju.


Fiid.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 10 2003, 05:07 PM

but, that is not linux specific, is it?

Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 10 2003, 05:08 PM

nope, no relaying involved here. plain simple outgoing mail ...

Andy

Posted by: Part Pricer Nov 10 2003, 06:56 PM

Was anything changed on the server over the last few hours? It was working fine earlier. But, now it is extremely slow for me.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 10 2003, 07:09 PM

i noticed that too

Posted by: 72914S Nov 11 2003, 06:45 AM

What happened to the antimation of the avitars? I didn`t change anything but now the good ones don`t move? Help
Barry

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 11 2003, 01:27 PM

one of the few times i can say:
that's NOT our fault!

delete your browser cache and see if that helps ...
Andy

Posted by: morgan Nov 11 2003, 01:31 PM

Must be working just got this topic in my email
GREAT JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 12 2003, 04:01 AM

Some how several of the "features" your turned on or coded (Andy) are not working.. like the city/state thingy.

Also.. I had Jeroen remove the 914club USA pic from the front page a few days before the move... not quite sure how it ended up back in the front page.


B

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 12 2003, 07:02 AM

Hey Brad,
Thanks for noticing (I hadn't)

Andy has a quite some old stuff running on the new server
All the recent changes I made are gone...
(e-mail from the classifieds, some minor stuff on the info pages and the homepage)

I'll upload the newer versions when I get home tonight

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 12 2003, 10:33 AM

actually, they're not gone
i made a backup. just tell me what pages you touched and i will copy them over.
i need to give you ftp-access too ...

Andy

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 12 2003, 10:39 AM

Hey Andy,

Just give me the ftp access and I'll upload 'em when I get home (I'm about to leave the office right now)

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Part Pricer Nov 12 2003, 12:11 PM

Hi guys. I got bounced off of the BBS just a couple of minutes ago. Here is the screen that I saw:

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 12 2003, 12:26 PM

yepp, i had to restart the server ...

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 13 2003, 12:05 AM

ok, spooled back the latest updates from Jeroen that had been lost in the move.
i also fixed the registration (how did that get messed up?) so you HAVE TO fill in a location again ...

Andy

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 13 2003, 12:25 AM

Thanks!
Looks like everything is back to normal then

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: McMark Nov 13 2003, 02:41 AM

"mark all topics as read" wasn't working for me.

Posted by: morgan Nov 13 2003, 07:25 AM

Not getting new Forums Email to me. Any one having same problem?
John

Posted by: GWN7 Nov 17 2003, 02:33 AM

Ghosts....I look at the stats and it says it's Jennys Birthday, but it also says she is 18. (I thought she was at least 20 or do we have 2 Jenny's) So I click on the bio info and yep it's The Jenny. So I click back on the forums main page and and the stats now say No one is having a birthday. WTF? Have I been at work too long? So I go back and check here's what I saw....now it's gone......Ghosts?


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Posted by: SirAndy Nov 17 2003, 10:20 AM

go and get some sleep

yes, she shows up there as 18 (HA HA, in my best simpsons voice) ...
Andy

Posted by: GWN7 Nov 17 2003, 06:35 PM

Well it was 3:30 am for me and we were busy all evening up to then.