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Welcome to the new box

If you are reading this, then you are accessing the site on the new machine.

All essential services have been migrated off of stewie to this new box.

Please let me know of any issues you encounter related to the site or loginserver availability.

Enjoy.

This isn't a big issue so please don't laugh, just a lil quirk I noticed. On the front page, the dividers are not there on the left side. When I check the properties on it, it's divider.php is the file that's missing.

Cant change login pw atm says there is some problem with the forum database. thought it would be a big issue, since i cant play using my original pw so others may have the same problem as me.

I just changed my Servers Box as well :P

from a 1.7ghz 768DDr333 to a 2.1ghz 768DDr333. A small bump but it will make running these servers easier....

World Of Warcraft (1.3.1) Server
Ragnarok (Current) Server
EqEmu 6.0dr2Perl (PEQ-Velious) Server
Neverwinter Nights (1.62 SOU-HOTU-CEP) Server
Web Server (Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL) Server

I know its alot for one little machine but I need it all :P

surfing eqemu.net

Doodman,

http://eqemulator.net/divider.php is missing it's picture icons.

http://eqemulator.net/images/email.gif is missing also

I know you just moved to a new box so this is just to let you know they
are missing.

Another item I have noticed since the switch to the new box.

Your link to the server list I get the banner portion up top giving mySQL errors. The other part is, well there are no servers showing up now period :/

You can select all to look for online and offline ones and there is none to be listed there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calabeth

thats been broken since the EMU went from phpbb to vbulletin

Quote:

Originally Posted by wize_one

thats been broken since the EMU went from phpbb to vbulletin

Well, actually I fixed the server list a few weeks ago.

1. Dividers fixed.
2. email.gif fixed.
3. Server list fixed.

Looking into the loginserver things.

Changing passwords, etc, should work again now.

Either the server's time or its timezone setting is off. Its timezone is -0500 (Central Time) but if that's what's intended, then it is an hour ahead. This is causing some timestamp issues in IRC.

Timestamps are Client side... They use your system's clock.

It isn't my client I'm concerned about, it's server-to-server mainly. At the time of writing this message, these are the timestamps on all the servers (done by executing a series of /time servername in rapid succession):

LethalEncounter.eqemulator.net:
Monday May 23 2005 -- 11:54 -05:00
(This one is correct for Central Time. I should know -- I'm in Texas with him :D And it seems to be synced up with true USNO time too -- as his clock is right on with my PC's. I would expect no less from a military man :D)

irc.eqemulator.net
Monday May 23 2005 -- 12:54 -04:00
(So this one's been fixed now. Thanks Dood/FNW/Krusher :D It's an hour ahead of Lethal but it should be cuz this one's on Eastern time - note the -04:00)

stewie.eqemulator.net
Monday May 23 2005 -- 11:54 -04:00
(11:54 and Eastern time?! WTF?! no.)

rogean.eqemulator.net
Monday May 23 2005 -- 11:53 -04:00
(11:53 and Eastern time?! no. Also, it might sound petty to nitpick about you being 1 minute off from the rest, but read the FAQ below and you see that even 1 minute off might cause some issues from time to time. Although, until you correct the hour or timezone, in the eyes of some of the servers you are 1h1m off.)

services.eqemulator.net
Mon May 23 12:54:55 2005 EDT
(correct)

(stats.eqemulator.net gave no response to a time query)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unreal 2.3 FAQ

Linking - (sync) Possible negative TS split at link server.blah.net (1078875430 - 1078875478 = -48)

If you get such a warning this means your clocks are not synched.
Correct time is VERY important for IRC servers, if the clocks are off for just 20 seconds you may run into trouble already. If your clocks are minutes or even hours off, you are guaranteed to have problems.
To name a few:
- temporary *lines/shuns will not expire correctly, they might expire like an hour earlier (or even directly on add) or later
- sudden (wrong) nick collision kills
- channels might not show up in /LIST (this requires the time to be off by 24h or more)
- more..

Synch the server clock - *NIX
You should run ntpd (=daemon) or ntpdate (=simple util, usually ran via cron) on all your servers.. this is pretty easy to set up and once it's working it should take care of all your worries. Note however that this requires root access.
Synch the server clock - Windows
There are various time synching progs out there (just google), but newer windows versions (XP, 2003) should already do it automatically.

Synch via services or /TSCTL
This can ONLY be used if your clock is off just for like <30 seconds because the ircd may stall [!] till it's synched again. So if you are off for 10 minutes and you use tsctl or services to synch all clients on the ircd MAY BE FROZEN FOR 10 MINUTES! Therefore, be very careful with this command.

About timezones
Note that linking ircds from different timezones is NO PROBLEM because GMT time is used for everything.

Server list broke again :(

Okay, can you be a little more descriptive?

Which LS? 5995/5994/5998?

server status page is broken again :/