[cobalt-users] Re: Site Management Pages Gone (Monkey Wrench Goes Nowhere)

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> It seems to me that this has been a problem for a very long time. 

I agree!

> How long will it take before Sun decides to fix this problem?

It will probably never happen.

> Looking at the source for Cobalt::Meta::vsite, I see the following
> in the del function:
>
> qx[ /bin/rm -fr $AdminPages_dir/siteManage/$self->{name} ];

That's line 891 for those of you keeping track... ;)

> I am going to take a wild guess and assume this may be one area
> that is causing the problem.  There are no checks on the
> $self->{name} to ensure that it is set, so if it is empty, this
> would lead to the entire siteManage directory being removed.  My
> suggestion would be to either add more checks to the del function
> or to cd to the siteManage directory, then do the 'rm -fr' on the
> site name like so:
>
> qx[ cd $AdminPages_dir/siteManage; /bin/rm -fr $self->{name} ];

I think the 2nd approach (which you illustrated) is the simplest and 
most obvious.  I'm going to try that on my own box (which I haven't 
had any problems with when deleting vsites, BTW, but there's always a 
first time, right?) and see what happens...

- -- 
Bruce Timberlake

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