Question

I have a strange situation. Here are the symptoms. When I installed I was not running with user nobody. So I had to delete all the *.v files. I'm still not running with user nobody, but deleting the files seems to have worked. All old versions were gong and about 24 hours later, I returned to find that older versions of my work had been registered.

Since then, a colleague has registered himself and created a topic, to which I replied. Then he replied. And now I replied again (after several days). The version before my last edit was not registered. Also, my name does not show up in WebChanges as the last author. Also, the time of the most recent change was not registered.

I'm working with a web hosting service, so I haveminimal access to shell commands. Of course, I can chmod. All scripts are in a single cgi-bin directory (if that makes a difference).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance. .

• TWiki version: Dec 2000
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: FreeBSD
• SSL: yes

Apache/1.3.14 Ben-SSL/1.41 (FreeBSD) mod_python/2.7.4 Python/2.0 mod_dtcl mod_throttle/2.11 mod_perl/1.24_01 PHP/4.0.3pl1 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 rus/PL30.0

I'm not sure if htis is related... re: help file on release lock I read "Note: Please remember not to go back in your browser in case you checked the box and after that you decide to do more changes to the topic. Instead press the Edit link to re-edit your page..."

What happens if you do this? Could this generate these symptoms?

Another thing I noticed. When I check the release lock and immeidately go an read topic, I do not see the topic version increase. Am I supposed to see an increase?

-- MatthewSimpson - 03 Sep 2001 &
-- MatthewSimpson - 04 Sep 2001

Update

My helpdesk just reported that RCS is not installed on my server. They've agreed to consider installing it. So... does it makes sense that versions would increase after deleting all *,v files and then later stop registering? -- MatthewSimpson - 08 Sep 2001

Final Update

My helpdesk just replied and told me that they are unwilling to install the RCS Perl module... Looks like I'm dead in the water on this server. I'll have to use another wiki clone. However, I plan to attempt installing TWiki on a server behind the firewall, to which I will have shell access and (homefully) some stronger admin.

Am I correct? Was it the absence of RCS that cause the problem? How could have new versions be created without it? Is it a mystery that TWiki was able to generate these new versions sans RCS? Maybe RCS is like a train that helps you travel down the revision tracks... Without it, TWiki was able to run a bit on foot... but without it, of course, not get very far. -- MatthewSimpson - 09 Sep 2001

Finding Related Topics

RCSproblemsOnTWikiBeta15May2001

Answer

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