[Moin-user] Empty directories

[Reimar Bauer]

Am 15.06.2012 17:20, schrieb Kai Jaeger:
> Hello Rick,
> 
> Thanks for your advice.
> 
> Getting rid of the stuff was not a problem once I was aware of it.
> 
> I am on 1.9.3 which is not exactly old! Was this really fixed in 1.9.4?
> 
> 
> Kai


Hi

I can't reproduce in current version and haven't seen that in 1.9. also
just verified with 1.9.3 too  (OLD!!
http://static.moinmo.in/files/moin-1.9.3.tar.gz)

starting the server
visiting http://localhost:8080/ZZZZ
ls ~/tmp/moin-1.9.3/wiki/data/pages
BadContent  MissingPage


So we need more informations about your setup.
what was in that folders?
Is this the pure moin version or distributed?

Reimar

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rick Vanderveer
> <rick.vanderveer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Kai,
>>
>> First step:
>> I seem to recall that this was a bug in an old version of Moin, that a
>> folder structure would begin to be created before the user authenticated.
>> All of us got hit with that bug, but it was quickly fixed as I recall. So,
>> your first step should be to upgrade your Moin!
>>
>> Second step is clean-up:
>> I can't remember (I think there might've been) a clean-up script within Moin
>> that helped clean up those folders (maint cleanpage?  Better wait until
>> someone else weighs in on that).  Outside of Moin, there are simple scripts
>> you can do (just make sure to back up your data dir *first*, then restart
>> moin after running the script).  On linux:
>>
>> find /path/to/dir -empty -delete
>>
>> On Windows, there is a utility you can download:
>> http://simonwai.com/developments/empty_folder_nuker/
>>
>> -Rick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Kai Jaeger <kai at aplteam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently I noticed that clicking on a Category page took much longer
>>> than it should: roughly 30-40 seconds.
>>>
>>> I checked the directory structure and found 18,000 empty folders!
>>>
>>> Because of the spammers one cannot create a page in the wiki in
>>> question without answering a stupid question. That works well but when
>>> somebody requests a page that does not exist yet than a new folder is
>>> created despite the user getting the message "You are not allowed to
>>> edit this page". And because they are doing this via a program I end
>>> up very soon with thousands of empty folders.
>>>
>>> Is there anything that can be done to improve this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kai
>>>
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