Small Upgrade Thursday: Forum Software Update

[Greg Bernhardt]

We will be performing a minor update to the forum software tomorrow night. Shouldn't take more than 10-15min. Should close up some bugs. Thanks!

 

[Moonbear]

Oh, sure, you couldn't do it LAST night, when I needed motivation to stop procrastinating.

 

[tiny-tim]

Oh, sure, you couldn't do it LAST night, when I needed motivation to stop procrastinating.

Stop tomorrow!

(oh, any chance of fixing the Library subscriptions? )

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Stop tomorrow!

(oh, any chance of fixing the Library subscriptions? )

what is wrong with subscriptions?

 

[tiny-tim]

what is wrong with subscriptions?

The last time I checked, they weren't working …

(I don't think they've ever worked, except on February 17th, when suddenly dozens of notifications came through all at once … see https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2080537&postcount=10")

for example, I subscribed to cooper pair (on 22nd or 23rd August, I think), and it was edited on 29th August, but I received no notification.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The last time I checked, they weren't working …

(I don't think they've ever worked, except on February 17th, when suddenly dozens of notifications came through all at once … see https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2080537&postcount=10")

for example, I subscribed to cooper pair (on 22nd or 23rd August, I think), and it was edited on 29th August, but I received no notification.

hmmm works for me, I just subscribed to cooper pair, did a test edit and ran the cronjob and got the PM.

 

[DaveC426913]

[ allcaps ]Where will we meet during the blackout?[ /allcaps ]

 

[tiny-tim]

Library subscriptions

Hi Greg!

hmmm works for me, I just subscribed to cooper pair, did a test edit and ran the cronjob and got the PM.

(wot's a cronjob? )

Wow! just got 32 notifications in 2 minutes.

Did you trigger something?

(but no notifications of other members' edits of my own entries, eg exponential Feynman diagrams free energy and resistivity , and no option to subscribe to them )

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Hi Greg!


(wot's a cronjob? )

Wow! just got 32 notifications in 2 minutes.

Did you trigger something?

(but no notifications of other members' edits of my own entries, eg exponential Feynman diagrams free energy and resistivity , and no option to subscribe to them )

ok this is helpful, thanks :)

 

[russ_watters]

We will be performing a minor update to the forum software tomorrow night. Shouldn't take more than 10-15min. Should close up some bugs. Thanks!

Last Tuesday, we had a "10-15 min" email outage at work for a server reboot. I had to use my personal email until Thursday!

Good luck, Greg!

 

[Moonbear]

Last Tuesday, we had a "10-15 min" email outage at work for a server reboot. I had to use my personal email until Thursday!

Good luck, Greg!

Uh oh! They have one of those planned at the university on Sunday...just when all my students will be panicking and trying to send me emails about their lab exam (they had the lecture exam today).

 

[humanino]

(wot's a cronjob? )

Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. 'cron' is short for 'chronograph'

Cron

So you can define for instance a cron job such as "make coffee at 6:25 am" if you intend to wake up at 6:30 am. Of course, it only works on Unix-based OS

 

[DaveC426913]

Cron

So you can define for instance a cron job such as "make coffee at 6:25 am" if you intend to wake up at 6:30 am. Of course, it only works on Unix-based OS

And only if http://xkcd.com/149/" ...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Looking to upgrade around midnight CST

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

all done, carry on