support April 2005

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Re: [drupal-support] automatically do database backups?
by Pontus Ullgren 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Anisa said: > > > Gerhard Killesreiter wrote: > >> >>No cron jobs no automatism. >> >>You could write a script that is executed through cron.php though and use poormanscron. >> >> >> > Aw. I can actually run cron jobs on my server, I just need to read up more. > Then I would suggest to set up a normal cronjob using a simple shell script and mysqldump (or any other simulare util for your database). ----- #!/bin/sh # # Backup script for a MySQL databases. # if [ -z $1 ]; then echo "usage: $0 databasename"; exit 1; fi # Change to your backup place OUTPUTDIR=/tmp TODAY=`date +%Y-%m-%d` mysqldump --defaults-file=backup.cnf $1 > $OUTPUTDIR/$1\_$TODAY.sql # You can use this instead to compress the file on the fly # mysqldump --defaults-file=backup.cnf $1 | \ # gzip - > $OUTPUTDIR/$1\_$TODAY.sql.gz ----- backup.cnf must contain the host, username and password it should only the readable to your user (or the user running cron). --- [client] host = 127.0.0.1 user = drupal password = drupal --- Then add something like this to the crontab: 0 1 * * * /path/to/dbbackup.sh databasename > Anisa. > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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[drupal-support] <pre> html tag broken in Drupal
by Abalieno 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

The <pre> tag doesn't allow to have format tags like <br> or <p> but Drupal keeps adding them to the text I insert in a block. There's a way to prevent Drupal to add those tags and leave what's within a <pre> block untouched? -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] how does the throttle module works?
by Abalieno 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I've read at length the manual about this module but in order to mantain my site alive I need to understand better what the module does concretely, so this is a list of questions and a request for a few hints. What I'd like to know is about the concrete difference between the different throttle levels. From what I read it seems that the throttle disables the blocks and module that I checked when it reaches the maximum throttle level (5). So what's the difference between the previous levels? The module does something else to optimize the site beside disabling those modules and blocks? And it disables all the modules all at once at level 5 or there's a progession regulated in some way? My guess is that the throttle also enables and controls the use of chached pages even in the case the site is set to not use the cache, is this true? And if I've set the site to always use the cache by default the throttle is basically useless (aside when it reaches the level 5)? It does something else behind the scenes like slowing down the php and mySQL requests? I ask because my hosting company disabled my account for more than a day because Drupal made the whole server crash due to an high load. I cannot understand if it was because of an unrelated problem or because my site was linked on an extremely popular board (which was), bringing an insane amount of guests all at once. So I don't know if the crash was simply due to the load, or if the load produced an overflow in the php that made a process go crazy and use up all the resources till the crash. I've attached to the mail a report from the server that the provider sent me, I'd be glad if someone can give it a glance and tell me what could have been the problem, if it was the load, if it was a bug. For example: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 28678 admin137 35 10 11788 11M 4532 R N 43.1 1.1 0:00 0 /usr/bin/php 28682 admin137 33 10 6812 6808 4432 R N 38.3 0.6 0:00 0 /usr/bin/php The mySQL is not mentioned but I read that in general an high load depends on it instead that the php itself. So these php processes I've pasted here include already the CPU usage of mySQL or the problem was exclusively in the php? Someone can help me to figure out all this? I absolutely do not have bandwidth problems, it's all about the resources usage. -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] Module for image handling
by Maykel Moya 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

I need to have a way to attach an image to every post. I installed tinymce, which say is compatible with img_assist but the latter doesn't work with Drupal 4.6 What module do you recommend in order to get an image included in posts... Regards, maykel

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[drupal-support] Is Drupal the Right CMS?
by Mike Melanson 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

Hi, I want to use a CMS for a new project I am working on (tired of managing all HTML by hand). Drupal is one of the Fantastico-equipped scripts that my ISP offers. I see other sites doing neat things with Drupal but I have no idea how to make it do these things. The first thing that bothered me was that every bit of content was very blog-like (displaying user and time posted). This site is going to have static pages that do not necessarily need such information. I figured out how to turn off that header via the theme configuration. Out of story and article, what do I want to use for static content (e.g., an "About" page)? I noticed that the book module has an option to display a printer-friendly display option. How come this is not the case on other types of content? I need to make a navigation menu block. I notice that the "Navigation" module is enabled by default. But I do not see how to do anything with that block. I can make another block for navigation options and populate it with an HTML list of links to the appropriate pages within the site. But that feels like it violates the CMS model. -- -Mike Melanson

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[drupal-support] Independent Directories
by B O'Reilly 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Drupal 4.5.1, Clean Urls. I need to be able to create subdirectories that are independent of Drupal. So far I am unable to accomplish this. Does anyone know how or, can someone point me in the right direction? thanks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 07/04/2005

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Re: [drupal-support] <pre> html tag broken in Drupal
by Djun Kim 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Personally, I was surprised the first time I encountered the default line breaking behaviour in Drupal. Once I understood what was what was going on, it seemed consistent that line breaks would be applied everywhere. So *I* don't consider this to be bug. However, if *you* think this behaviour is a bug, you might consider flagging it as an issue in the Drupal project issue tracker (otherwise it's unlikely to get any attention). Quoting Abalieno <abalieno(a)cesspit.net>: >> Hi Abalieno, >> >> you probably need to tweak your input formats. >> Go to administer -> input formats, and either >> turn off line break converter for the format you >> use, or create a new format with line break >> converter turned off. > > Okay, but it's still a broken feature. A <pre> block should ALWAYS > bypass the line breaks. In every condition since it's exactly how the > html tag is defined. I can disable the line breaks for the WHOLE node > but I'd like Drupal to keep doing that and bypass the line breaks > only when dealing with the <pre> tag. > > This is supposed the default behaviour and should be considered as a bug. > > -HRose / Abalieno -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] >

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[drupal-support] Get all feeds together
by Maykel Moya 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Do exist a URL that get all the items posted together in a rss feed? I mean, if I ask for /node/feed then I got everything in the homepage. If I ask for term/<tid>/feed, then the feed of items in that term. But don't know why ask for a feed of every item posted. Regards maykel

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[drupal-support] Spam link deterrent
by Steve Dondley 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

The help text for the "Spam link deterrent" on the ?q=admin/filters/1/configure page says: "it is likely most effective when enabled for anonymous users." Obvious question: How do you enable for anonymous users? It's not apparent to me.

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[drupal-support] categories "block"
by Abalieno 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

I use a default block/feature to display a block on the sitebar with all the categories listed. The problem is that also the forums are based on the categories system and I'd like to keep them detached. In the block I'd like to show only the categories of the main content of the site and not also all the categories that I build for the forums. There's a way to do this? -HRose / Abalieno

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