<quote who="JohnLeoZ"> > Theodore Ruegsegger wrote: >> What's the deal with the Wiki? > >> I've seen no discussion of the >> Wiki lately, so it occurs to me that there's a working link that >> everyone but me knows about! > > I know the feeling, Ted! But the "conspiracy", as it has been discussed > on the last few Friday conference calls, goes more like this: > > The Wiki has been sick for a lot longer than anyone anticipated. > Went down ~5/8 for an upgrade. But there is a potential vulnerability in > MySQL, the Wiki's underlying database that must be resolved before it > can safely come back online. > > The Wiki has been the work of David Whitten who has put his own time and > hardware into it, with the help of a very few others, and with too much > at stake to risk bringing it back up incorrectly configured. > > regards, > JohnLeo Z > > Too bad there is not a VistA "WikiMan" written in M. If the underlying > database were FileMan, he'd have been back up weeks ago.
The vulnerabilities found in MySQL were patched on May 2nd. There were some other minor issues but nothing worth noting. I don't think MySQL should get the black eye for this... I have offered to help and am more than willing to do whatever I can to get things back up. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17780/info http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-x.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
