Saturday, October 18, 2008

Ummm

Whats up with the GNDT? It clear every name and it only readds you if ya comment on it.

posted by Darknight at 18 Oct 2008 05:07:00 UTC Comments (6)

Comments

Kevan:

10-18-2008 09:51:14 UTC

This always happens when the log gets cleared; it doesn’t bother listing players who don’t have any stats yet, or haven’t done anything.

Oze:

10-18-2008 10:43:50 UTC

In case people get confused, I commented for everyone. Everyone’s visible now, I think.

Darknight:

10-18-2008 19:07:49 UTC

Thanks guys. It seemed rather odd that time, since if I recall its never cleared names before other then idled names.

Rodney:

10-18-2008 20:24:00 UTC

We hadn’t cleared the log before, the last one stretched back Dynasties.

While we’re talking about GNDT oddies, every now and then something called MoveDaemon posts a whole bunch of comments saying “Nightly Update”. What’s up with it?

Kevan:

10-19-2008 11:24:37 UTC

Looks like GNDTMoveUpdaterLOG.py is a script by Greth from June 2006 (!) that’s still running on the server every night, trying to update each player’s “Moves” field by writing directly to the history log. Evidently a hangover from an earlier dynasty that someone forgot to switch off.

It just needs taking out of the cronjob; I’m trying to do that now, but the server’s being extremely slow to respond.

Kevan:

10-19-2008 11:29:32 UTC

Okay, it’s gone.