Alan Knowles wrote:
> Automatically would involve something like a cron job, that would occur
> regularly and delete the older articles.
> a number of options exist for this
> 1. cronjob calling a perl routine (that would do SQL calls) - not very
> 'repligard safe'
Correct. Someone is/was working on a perl package that understood
these details and could be used safely from the command line; can't
remember who, excuses to both :/
> 3. use the code above at the end of a web page and put the line
> mgd_auth("ID","PASSWD",1); before it
> (pls check exact syntax in manual)
I'd use '0' as the last parameter, not '1'. The '1' would send the
username/password back to the visitor in a cookie.
> - note that the last option means that you have to put the id & username to
> authenticate into the database - and may add a security hole -
Absolutely corect.
Emile
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