[cobalt-users] [RE: raq3: verify & repair lost users]

[Duncan Laurie <duncan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh drat,

I accidentally attached the script to the message.  Not only that but
its an older version.  If you intend use this yourself please ignore
that version and get current one from the FTP site...

sorry!

-duncan



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: raq3: verify & repair lost users
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:47:24 -0800
From: Duncan Laurie <duncan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Cobalt Networks, Inc
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I put together a script to verify and repair the database used by the 
RaQ-3 admin interface for virtual site users...

There were some RaQ-3 bugs (fixed in update 2.0) that could cause users
to become "detached", i.e. they exist on the system but do not show up
in the admin interface.  This script attempts to detect and repair 
coherency problems that may happen.

Cobalt tech support now has this script and accompanying instructions
and will be glad to take a look at your system and repair the corrupt
database.  This is highly recommended for most users.

On the other hand if you are more comfortable handling things yourself,
then the script is also on the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/duncan/raq3/meta-verify-raq3.pl

look in the script header for details or run with "-h" to see the 
available options.

standard disclaimer:  please be careful!  this is designed to modify
the database and could potentially be dangerous.  Well, its actually
designed to *repair* the database, but if something unforseen were to
happen while this is running it is possible that your database could
be worse off.

ignoring the disclaimer.. if you do customizations or intensive work
with your raq3 this can be a useful tool:  run with the "-a" argument
and it will validate the metadata of all current users in the database
against the system configuration files, prompting you to update the
database if it finds any inconsistencies.

if you do download and use this yourself, please contact me directly
with problems as support probably wouldn't want to hear it...  that and
they'd probably take me out back and shoot me for making it available
in the first place.  (oops ;)


-duncan