Wednesday, January 23, 2002

I have a callback script that may be useful for people running Manila servers. It is called during nightly backups and will delete any file or folder in your backup folder that is over 7 days old. I use the script to make sure that my servers don't get overrun with backup files, while allowing me a week of coverage. If you are interested, you can download the script here. Install the script in config.mainresponder.callbacks.nightlyBackup. 9:48:37 PM     Comment []

It looks like there is a bug in editing posts with autoparagraphs (at least in OmniWeb on Mac OS X). When you create a post with lines separated by two returns, autoparagraphs inserts two <p> tags for the returns. But, when you edit that post, the two <p> tags are converted to back to returns (encoded as "&#13"). These encoded returns are stripped out when you repost the edited text. As a result, you lose your autoparagraph formatting. 12:34:25 PM     Comment []

I spent the morning flailing around in Tool hell. For some reason, I couldn't get the webScheduler tool to install or stay installed in Radio. In addition, there appeared to be some funky behavior going on with Frontier and Radio. Changes that I thought I was making to the Radio tool appeared in a Frontier database (of the same name), even though the tool was working in Radio. The flip side, was that none of the changes showed up in the Radio tools root file. Nothing like thinking that several hours of work are up in smoke. Fortunately, I found the root file with all the changes in my Frontier folder. I think things are back to normal now. But, I would caution against anyone running Frontier and Radio with open root files with the same name. 12:25:48 PM     Comment []