Richard, this is great advice from your pain, I have seen very large sites badly hit by this sort of issue, also the robots can cause issues with stale code/features. Has anyone come across or used any sort of Stale-Code-Sniffer capability/utility?
Mike Brunt, CTO Webapper http://www.webapper.com Tel: 562.243.6255 Instant Messaging AIM: webappermb Webapper, Downey CA Office "Webapper - Making the NET Work" -----Original Message----- From: Richard Meredith-Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Don't leave stuff lying around This morning I got into work to discover >3000 error messages generated since 4:30 yesterday afternoon with more pouring in by the minute. I had something of a panic attack as the site has been running with no errors for months. As it turned out, I had inadvertently left an old "one time" CF script on the server which had rebuilt a stored proc to a now-redundant version and was easy enough to undo. What had done this? IP traces from the site's logs showed the request to this rogue script coming from inside the client's gateway. At first I suspected someone there who didn't know what they were doing had simply been fiddling with the site, but as it turned out, they were running a badly configured copy of webtrends which was itself requesting pages that appear in the logfiles. It seems that Webtrends decided to go and check it out by requesting it - probably to ascertain its status code, and in so doing invoked the stored procedure deletion / re-creation. Moral: Don't leave stuff lying around. -- Regards; Richard Meredith-Hardy ------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob: + 44 7771 526513 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
