[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Mldonkey-devel] mldonkey and savannah

[Mathieu Roy]

MLdonkey <address@hidden> said:

> >  Hi,
> >  
> >  Paul Dietz said the following:
> >  
> >          By: pfdietz ( Paul F. Dietz ) 
> >           RE: Mirroring? [ reply ]   
> >          Thu 03/13/03 at 14:08 
> >  
> >          Is there any way the mldonkey init file can be reconfigured to
> >          crash the client? That would force users to upgrade. 
> >  
> >  
> >  Is it technically possible?
> 
> Sorry for the delay, but yes, there is a way to reconfigure mldonkey,
> but it won't crash (it is written in a language where crashes are very
> hard to force, unfortunately).
> 
> As I told you, mldonkey downloads a file called motd.conf from
> savannah, that is supposed to contain some commands to change the
> options. 
> 
> I don't know if it is still useful (the pressure on savannah should
> have decrease with the last release), but we can change some options
> so that it partially stops trying to contact savannah (at least, it
> will not try to download two files), or disable some of its
> functionalities so that the user will be interested in upgrading.
> 
> But, for that, we need to put these files into the prohibited network/
> directory... Note that there is also a motd.html file in this
> directory that is displayed at every startup, and that could be used
> to tell the users of the old versions that they should upgrade
> immediatly. 

In fact, actually it's no longer an issue. A 403 is not a problem for
apache.

So we can keep it that way.

Thanks for your attention.

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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