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Reply #30 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 4:53pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

RonS2 wrote on Jun 19^th, 2013 at 2:58pm:

It seems a little different. My error log just has many empty spaces and lines knocking the format out of whack

a good error log:

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1370816812|1370816811|xxx.249.xxx.xxx|You are not allowed to access this section. |ml||||
1370878736|1370878736|xxx.249.xxx.xxx|You are not allowed to access this section. |ml||||
1371070121|1371070121|xxx.249.xxx.xxx|You are not allowed to access this section. |ml||||
1371192190|1371192189|xxx.249.xxx.xxx|You are not allowed to access this section. |ml||||
1371207382|1371207381|xxx.125.xxx.xxx|Proxy Access to this forum is denied! |||||
1371385941|1371385936|xxx.208.xxx.xxx|You are not allowed to access this section. |ml||||
1371386936|1371386935|xxx.23.xxx.xxx|Sorry, this service is for registered members only! |viewprofile||||
1371426895|1371426890|xxx.208.xxx.xxx|Sorry, this service is for registered members only! |viewprofile||||
1371454881|1371454876|xxx.12.xxx.xxx|Sorry, this service is for registered members only! |viewprofile||||
1371612904|1371612898|xxx.12.xxx.xxx|Sorry, this service is for registered members only! |viewprofile||||

if your error log don't look like this then download and make a backup of the errorlog.txt remove all entries in the log then upload it back and check if it is ok.

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Reply #32 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 6:21pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

xnoddyx wrote on Jun 19^th, 2013 at 4:53pm:

if your error log don't look like this then download and make a backup of the errorlog.txt remove all entries in the log then upload it back and check if it is ok.

Will do that the next time I see the file is corrupt. In the past I have just deleted the contents without saving the old file.

Dandello wrote on Jun 19^th, 2013 at 6:05pm:

I would hazard a guess that it's still a related problem - the registrants are putting in names that have unacceptable characters in them, bolluxing up the .pre files AND bolluxing up the errorlog when it tries to document the error.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case - I'm a more than a bit nervous about upgrading. Do you think that will cure the problem?

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Reply #36 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 2:27pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

xnoddyx wrote on Jun 19^th, 2013 at 2:22pm:

can you check this post out and see if it's the same errorlog.txt corruption http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?num=1351872351/14#0

I followed the directions from this post
http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?num=1351872351/32#32
And almost 24hrs later not a single problem. ~ Thanks!

What if any boxes should be checked in the referrer security section?

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Reply #39 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 4:49pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

Just so you know - my personal take is to start as strict as possible and loosen up when/if members come back and say they've started having problems. On my own forums the only things I have checked is RSS, print and the 3 loginout routines and that's because, on one forum, I have a secondary domain pointing to the primary domain and that causes issues when being forwarded from. Most people won't have that problem.

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Reply #41 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 6:22pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

Dandello wrote on Jun 20^th, 2013 at 4:49pm:

... my personal take is to start as strict as possible and loosen up when/if members come back and say they've started having problems.

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Dandello wrote on Jun 20^th, 2013 at 9:55pm:

And I should add - when I say strict I don't mean to have everything turned off - I'm merely referring to not allowing much interaction between YaBB and the rest of the world except when it comes through 'proper' channels - the program hosted on my domain.

Admittedly, this is a safe way to operate a forum. Still ...

Dandello is most certainly an expert on how YaBB operates. However, I respectfully ~~disagree~~ have a different opinion than she has on this one because I know what's working in our forum.

I've seen YaBB forums be so restrictive with the way they use Referrer Security that those forums become very user unfriendly. Particularly when a forum doesn't have an easy way to send a message to its administrator or to the site's webmaster, and a great many forums do not provide this, it's not likely that problems will be reported. People will simply stay away.

Hint

: The better your forum is at stopping spam-bots, the more generous you can be in allowing actions from outside domains.

Particularly with the use of ggn's anti-spam CAPTCHA hack, Referral Security Checking is no longer necessary despite what "experts" will tell you (you can read more about that here). I've disabled it entirely in our forum without any problems.

Keep in mind that I'm not a YaBB expert, just a regular admin with a fair knowledge of how YaBB works, and yet, the forum I operate no longer has problems with spam-bots. So if I can do this, pretty much anybody can.

If you've noticed, there seem to be quite a few YaBB forums that have registration disabled (registration is processed via email). You could do that, too, but how restrictive do you really want to be?

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You can see how this anti-spam CAPTCHA works in Dandello's YaBB 2.5.4 Alpha test bed forum (on the 2nd page of her registration form). Thankfully, she's included this as a mod in YaBB's next, and newest version, of which she's the lead developer (this mod has been authored/updated by Derek Barnstorm with ggn's happy approval).

« Last Edit: Jun 20^th, 2013 at 11:59pm by Bill Myers »

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Reply #42 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 7:08pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

Bill

I've always only had 4 or five boxes checked.

To be honest I have no clue what most of them do and I could never find any reference to what they are for. Only a few of them are self evident by their name. So in my ignorance I didn't allow very many. I have a very active forum so it seems it didn't hurt.

ggn's anti-spam CAPTCHA looks like you delete the first and last two characters. I can see where that would confuse some of the people that join my forum Cheesy

But that's another story for another thread.

Thanks for the input.

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I just notice Dandello test forum is running 2.5.4. I'm considering upgrading, should I wait for the new release? I really nervous about doing this in the first place then finding out that there is a new version right around the corner

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Reply #43 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 7:34pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

Whatever is working for you, that's the way to continue. Cool

As for future upgrades, Dandello is the go to person for that.

Like our forum, you're using the 2.4 version. YaBB 2.5.2 is the latest release, but I wouldn't recommend upgrading until the one after that (currently 2.5.4 although that may change to version 2.6 at some point... not sure how that works).

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Reply #44 - Jun 20^th, 2013 at 9:55pm

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Re: Verbose: No such file or directory

Bill is right - 2.5.2 is the most current 'official' version available. 2.5.4 is still in development and is very unstable at the moment.

2.5.2 is actually pretty stable if you add the various bug-fixes which take care of some glitches that crept in and some old bugs that weren't uncovered until it went the 'live' testing.

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