I am sorry to bring this to you, but I have a bad feeling that your message board pkg will bring trouble to Raq users because of this:
"Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system which requires NO database. It uses nothing more than a single text-file on your web server for its data storage. " Using a flat file database with a message board is going to cause high resource loads, esp if the boards are heavly visited. We ban flat file boards on our servers, they are big resource hogs. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cobalt-Developers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: [cobalt-developers] message board is ready The message board for the cobalt Raq is ready. [I THINK! Standard disclaimers apply: No warranty, period, could trash your server, use at your own risk] You can download the PKG file at http://www.bearfruit.org/bazooka/index.php. You can see it (and test it) at http://www.bearfruit.org/bazooka/bboard/index.php. This is my first PKG file, but I used Taco's neomail as my foundation. It's actually much simpler than neomail. Because it's PHP based, you will need PHP on your server. It will install on a Raq3 or Raq4, but I've only tested it on a Raq4. You should not need to have PHP enabled for the site to use the board. While the message board is very stable and reliable, my packaging of it, or actually, it's implementation in a cobalt Raq setting, will probably need a little enhancement. I've taken every effort to prevent this package from creating any security implications. I don't think you'll need to worry about it opening any backdoors or trashing your server. Please feel free to e-mail me directly, or if the implications are broad in scope, to this list. I monitor both the security and developer list. Here's a blurb from the page linked above: Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system which requires NO database. It uses nothing more than a single text-file on your web server for its data storage. Bazooka Board was created to help serve those who have PHP webspace, but no MySQL database support. Its goal is to be extremely simple to setup, and easy enough that even computer-illiterate people can use it. It was modified (ever so slightly) by me to allow virtual hosting of a single Bazooka Board, but in a way that each site will have it's own separate datastore and configuration file. Once installed, every site on the server will have a single message board accessible at the url http://<SITE_NAME>/bboard Check it out. Please direct any concerns about the product to me (directly prefered, but via the list if appropriate). Enjoy, Matt Nuzum _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
