[Interest] wiki/bugtraq offline, and broken li.org links...

[Harald Alvestrand]

On 01/20/2012 05:21 AM, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
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> Hi Alex :)
>
> I've noticed that the links to li.org redirect to broken (and invalid)
> links on the LiCo (Linuxcounter.net) site.
>
> For example, anyone hitting my old counter page is redirected to:
>
> http://linuxcounter.netcgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=190795
>
> Which for one thing, is broken at li.org (So maybe we need to get Harald
> to fix this), since there is no slash between the end of the domain name
> and the cgi-bin directory.
I fixed that one.
> It should be:
>
> http://linuxcounter.net/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=190795
>
> Which could be accommodated a couple of different ways, one being create
> a cgi-script that will re-direct those incoming URLs to the actual and
> new style URls we use at Linuxcounter.net. The second way would be to
> have the cgi-script at li.org do this correctly so we don't have to on
> the new LiCo site.
>
> In either case, it should re-direct to my profile located here:
>
> https://linuxcounter.net/user/190795.html
We can rewrite this at either point, but perhaps easier at Alexander's; 
I'm not that into Apache's mod_rewrite.

> Next, the wiki/bugtraq is offline. I get the following page when I
> attempted to go there and open this ticket:
>
> <snip>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/api.py", line 440, in
> send_error
>      data, 'text/html')
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/chrome.py", line 827, in
> render_template
>      message = req.session.pop('chrome.%s.%d' % (type_, i))
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/api.py", line 216, in
> __getattr__
>      value = self.callbacks[name](self)
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 300, in
> _get_session
>      return Session(self.env, req)
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/session.py", line 198, in
> __init__
>      self.get_session(sid)
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/session.py", line 219, in
> get_session
>      super(Session, self).get_session(sid, authenticated)
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/session.py", line 70, in
> get_session
>      """, (sid, int(authenticated)))
>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/db/util.py", line 65, in execute
>      return self.cursor.execute(sql_escape_percent(sql), args)
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 166,
> in execute
>      self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/MySQLdb/connections.py", line
> 35, in defaulterrorhandler
>      raise errorclass, errorvalue
> InternalError: (145, "Table './licotrac/session' is marked as crashed
> and should be repaired")
>
> </snip>
>
> Item #3.) Also, the tables showing the stats for our machines doesn't
> have a column at the top indicating what each of the columns represents.
> There's no indication as to whether, for example, the date at the far
> right side of of the table is the creation date of the machine, the
> uptime for that machine, or the last time the update script was run by cron.
>
> Item #4.) Finally, I think we need to develop methods whereby people can
> search for registered users and machines - by registration number
> certainly, but also by browsing the country data or via postal/country
> code/other criteria. Yes, data for many folks will be returned as
> *SECRET*, and that is okay, but those of us who wish to share more data
> should be able to be accessed via search/browse capabilities, perhaps
> with captcha or other anti-SPAMming/Data-mining protections in place.
>
> As you know, I try to enter any enhancement or bug reports via Trac,
> which is the preferred and customary method, but it's down, so I
> apologize for SPAMming the list with these bug reports.
>
> Please let me know when this is fixed so I can submit these other three
> ticket items in the ticketing system if necessary, unless this email
> will actually suffice for adding these items to your todo list :)
>
>
> Kindest regards,
>
>
> - -- 
> Bradley D. Thornton
> Manager Network Services
> NorthTech Computer
> TEL: +1.760.666.2703  (US)
> TEL: +44.203.318.2755 (UK)
> http://NorthTech.US
>
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