I have access to the toolserver and rcip is not available. please note
that the chechuser table is created by an extension and not by
mediawiki thus you cannot depend on extensions that my or may not be
insalled on all wikis. it may be that way on MWF wikis bit mediawiki
is not just used on MWF wikis. what you want done cannot be done
untill CU is merged into the trunk

On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Doe schrieb:
>> nc the cu is an extension and not part of trunk so thst will not work
>
> Huh, why shouldn't it? The idea was that the extension would hijack the way
> Block.php looks up the past IP addresses, and does it via cu_changes. So the
> IPÜs would no langer be needed in rc.
>
> I admin though that this is completly pointless except for the one thing I
> want
> it for - avoiding to get user IPs on the toolserver.
>
>> On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Andrew Garrett schrieb:
>>>> On 17/06/2009, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if the column rc_ip can be safely removed from mediawiki.
>>>>> As far as I
>>>>> know, it has been superceeded by the information in cu_changes, right?
>>>>
>>>> rc_ip is used by the retroactive autoblock functionality (i.e. when a
>>>> user is first blocked, an autoblock is placed on the last IP address
>>>> they used, using rc_ip as the data source).
>>> Hm... i guess that could be made to use cu_changes instead, using a hook
>>> like
>>> "getPastUserIPs". That feels a little icky, but might still be worth
>>> it...
>>>
>>> -- daniel
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