<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



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