Re: flushdatabases
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = >I've changed admin passwords... cleared cache... I've tried it from a remote >computer that has never even seen the page, with the same result. Also >Kenneth's suggestion said set commandpref=T, Where is that in the prefs >setup? I don't see it? And does it have an effect?I did not say that, I said CommandSecurity. There is no such thing as a preference called commandpref ...Now that we have that straight, I can tell you that I never use the webcat admin interface to change my webcat prefs. Instead I quit webcat if it's running, then I edit the prefs manually, with a text editor, in the WebCatalog Prefs file. That's why I always refer to these preferences by their real names, instead of trying to describe them with terms used in the admin interface, which clearly never gives you a clue as to the true names of some of these prefs.Aside to SM:It wouldn't hurt you guys to clearly label each preference BY NAME in your admin interface -- so when we talk about these things we do *not* have to try to describe them using vague descriptions, instead we can simply look at the real names of these prefs as displayed in the admin interface.Back to the problem here ...You're having a problem that no one else seems to be having, and it's on NT -- so if anything, I simply assumed that if you actually did what I suggested earlier, and if that didn't fix the problem, then maybe this is just one of those issue specific to NT or the server software you're using, and in that case there's nothing more I can add to the discussion.However, if you still have not checked your prefs file to be sure that the proper values are in there, and if you really want to see if my previous suggestion will work, this is what you should do:1- Quit webcatalog. In fact, shut down the entire NT box it's running on, then reboot it but do NOT launch webcatalog yet ...2- Open the WebCatalog Prefs file with a text editor, find the CommandsAllowed preference, and make sure FlushDatabases is NOT in there. If it is, remove it.3- Find the CommandSecurity preference and make sure it is exactly T -- without the quotes.4- Don't forget that this file you're working on is a standard tab-delimited database file that webcat NEEDS to have in the proper format, so don't go typing any stray carriage returns, tabs, or anything else by mistake when editing this file or you're bound to screw up the format, then you'll have more problems than you started with.5- Once you've saved and closed the WebCatalog Prefs file, launch webcatalog.6- If you're browsing from a different box, reboot that computer as well. Then run your tests again to see if you still experience the same problems.If you still have the same problem after doing all this, then maybe you have a corrupted copy of webcat, which means you should replace it with a fresh copy -- or else there's something unrelated to webcatalog going on here.I really doubt that this is a bug in the NT version of webcat, since no one else ever seems to complain about this, but maybe you just happen to be the unlucky person who discovered something no one else has run into until now ... ================================ Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant 808-737-6499 http://webdna.net ================================------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>I've changed admin passwords... cleared cache... I've tried it from a remote >computer that has never even seen the page, with the same result. Also >Kenneth's suggestion said set commandpref=T, Where is that in the prefs >setup? I don't see it? And does it have an effect?I did not say that, I said CommandSecurity. There is no such thing as a preference called commandpref ...Now that we have that straight, I can tell you that I never use the webcat admin interface to change my webcat prefs. Instead I quit webcat if it's running, then I edit the prefs manually, with a text editor, in the WebCatalog Prefs file. That's why I always refer to these preferences by their real names, instead of trying to describe them with terms used in the admin interface, which clearly never gives you a clue as to the true names of some of these prefs.Aside to SM:It wouldn't hurt you guys to clearly label each preference BY NAME in your admin interface -- so when we talk about these things we do *not* have to try to describe them using vague descriptions, instead we can simply look at the real names of these prefs as displayed in the admin interface.Back to the problem here ...You're having a problem that no one else seems to be having, and it's on NT -- so if anything, I simply assumed that if you actually did what I suggested earlier, and if that didn't fix the problem, then maybe this is just one of those issue specific to NT or the server software you're using, and in that case there's nothing more I can add to the discussion.However, if you still have not checked your prefs file to be sure that the proper values are in there, and if you really want to see if my previous suggestion will work, this is what you should do:1- Quit webcatalog. In fact, shut down the entire NT box it's running on, then reboot it but do NOT launch webcatalog yet ...2- Open the WebCatalog Prefs file with a text editor, find the CommandsAllowed preference, and make sure FlushDatabases is NOT in there. If it is, remove it.3- Find the CommandSecurity preference and make sure it is exactly T -- without the quotes.4- Don't forget that this file you're working on is a standard tab-delimited database file that webcat NEEDS to have in the proper format, so don't go typing any stray carriage returns, tabs, or anything else by mistake when editing this file or you're bound to screw up the format, then you'll have more problems than you started with.5- Once you've saved and closed the WebCatalog Prefs file, launch webcatalog.6- If you're browsing from a different box, reboot that computer as well. Then run your tests again to see if you still experience the same problems.If you still have the same problem after doing all this, then maybe you have a corrupted copy of webcat, which means you should replace it with a fresh copy -- or else there's something unrelated to webcatalog going on here.I really doubt that this is a bug in the NT version of webcat, since no one else ever seems to complain about this, but maybe you just happen to be the unlucky person who discovered something no one else has run into until now ... ================================ Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant 808-737-6499 http://webdna.net ================================------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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