Hi Folks,
It was first pointed out in Robin Stein's post in early February that
the email search function on the AMMRL Web site was FUBAR. Yesterday Pat
Edwards also mentioned this which prompted a couple of others to confirm
the problem and offer help. I appreciate the offers.
Back in December our ITS Security folks strongly suggested that I close
some security holes in the system which prompted me to migrate from RHL
4.2 to CentOS 6.8. It took a while but I was able to do this over the
winter brake. I *thought* I checked everything but apparently I was
wrong. That is often the case :-)
Anyway since February I have been looking at the issue from time to time
but it required more than fifteen minute blocks to sort this out. To
make a very long story somewhat shorter I spent the day yesterday
ignoring my phone with the door closed and my email client closed. I
haven't determined the problem but I have implemented a temporary fix
which will allow everyone to access and search the archives till the
problem is identified and solved. If you have tried to use the search
function the garbage results are probably stuck in your cache so you
will need to reload the page which prompts you to login again.
Which reminds me, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that
we do not maintain individual accounts to access the archives. The
password is there to inhibit internet bots from harvesting everyone's
email addresses for nefarious purposes. EVERYONE'S username is ammrl.
This is also your password. I see many examples in the error logs of
people trying to login with their email addresses. This doesn't hurt
anything but will yield little in the way of a useful response from the
server.
So I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully I can solve the other
issue so the site works and our internet security cops are happy with me.
Hope to see some of you folks at the ENC.
Walt
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Walter P. Niemczura, Ph. D.
NMR/Mass Spec. Facility Director
Department of Chemistry
2545 McCarthy Mall
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-3113
FAX: 808-956-5908
Email: walt_at_hawaii.edu
Received on Fri Mar 10 2017 - 08:39:18 MST