[pmwiki-users] .flock troubles

Neil Herber nospam at eton.ca
Thu Apr 21 15:50:32 CDT 2005


At 2005-04-21  03:33 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > 3. There was a strange file called NOOP in wiki.d/ . That's probably
> > unrelated, because it is already a week old, but I'm not sure how such a
> > file might have been created. (It contained a wiki page, but one that
> > wasn't named NOOP. Actually, NOOP isn't a valid name for a wiki page file.)
>
>This makes me suspect that some other system process is creating
>files in your wiki.d/ .  You're right that NOOP isn't a valid wiki page
>filename.

NOOP (no operation) is a command some FTP clients issue to keep an FTP 
server from timing out the connection. Is it possible that the FTP server 
got confused? Doesn't sound likely, but it seems like a strange co-incidence.


Neil

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