Hi,

I have a new problem, after change my server (solaris) for red-hat 7.0, i see the script (links 2.0) don't run correctly. All functions run, when i add a new link and validate i go to rebuilding all pages...see a e.g:

Building Pages

Pages built on 12-Dez-2002 at 17:50:26
--------------------------------------------------------

Backing up database . . .
Backup exists for today.. Skipping
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 2048 hits
Updating record: 20, marking as pop.
Updating record: 23, marking as pop.
Updating record: 19, marking as pop.

......

Updating record: 3240, marking as pop.
Done.

Updating ratings ..
Done.

Loading Category Information . . .
Done.

Gathering Category and Link information . . .
Done

Building Home Pages . . .
Categories: 40
Total Links: 3240
Opening page: /xxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/pages/index.html
Closing page.
Done

Building What's New Page . . .
Total New Links: ( **** HERE IS MY PROBLEM **** )

Done

Building Cool Sites Page . . .
Total Cool Sites: 103
Done

Building Top 10 Page . . .
Per Rate: 943222 .. 12345
Per Ratio: Yes .. No
Done



Building Category pages . . .
Building Category: axxxxx1

Sub Categories: 3
Links: 7
Directorie: /usr/local/xxx/xxx/axxx1
File Name: /usr/local/xxx/xxx/axxx1/index.shtml
Sub Page: /usr/local/xxx/xxx/axxx1/more2.html

Into the end, no have problems, i rebuilding all links (3240) with 19 ~25 segunds, not have problems, all categories is ok, all subcategories is ok, all pages is generated, all permissions is ok, all is ok . EXCEPT FOR the new sites added is not see, not is marking how to new, it does't appear new sites per day....Noting for new sites... I run several tests and not see a soluction. When i change a server i note problem with a date format

fatal error: invalid date format: 02-Aug-01 - parsed as (day: 2, month: 7, year: -1899). Reason: Can't handle date (0, 0, 0, 2, 7, -1899) at /home/.sites/122/site482/web/cgi-bin/links2/admin1/links.cfg line 173

I have searched the forum and found the fix provided by designerx in Jan:-

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Strangly enough the solution is absurdely simple. In your links.cfg script you would make one alteration... you simply add a 1 to the end of the $year

So for example on (my line 292) in links.cfg It would look like:
$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year1);

instead of:
$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year);

I think, my problem with no marking a news links is possible directly it is related to the problem with dates of the Unix. I use a Perl










Please i need a avanced assistence.

Thanks for your time,

Quirino





Help to me

This looks to be my problem as well, all the other confusing stuff aside that I had in the other post. (See? I am looking through search results...) *Sangi clicks "Watch this Thread"*
--Sanguinarius
Your resident vampire ;P
http://www.sanguinarius.org/

I solve my problem, see below:

In links.cfg (old file)

sub date_to_unix {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine must take your date format and return the time a la UNIX time().
# Some things to be careful about..
# timelocal does not like to be in array context, don't do my($time) = timelocal (..)
# int your values just in case to remove spaces, etc.
# catch the fatal error timelocal will generate if you have a bad date..
# don't forget that the month is indexed from 0!
#
my $date = shift; my $i;
my %months = map { $_ => $i++ } qw!Jan Fev Mar Abr Mai Jun Jul Ago Set Out Nov Dez!;
my ($day, $mon, $year) = split(/-/, $date);

exists $months{$mon} or return undef;
$day = int($day); $year = $year - 1900;

require Time::Local;
my $time = 0;
eval {
$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year);
};
if ($@) { die "invalid date format: $date - parsed as (day: $day, month: $months{$mon}, year: $year). Reason: $@"; }
return $time;
}

Change to:



sub date_to_unix {

# --------------------------------------------------------

# This routine must take your date format and return the time a la UNIX time().

# Some things to be careful about..

# timelocal does not like to be in array context, don't do my($time) = timelocal (..)

# int your values just in case to remove spaces, etc.

# catch the fatal error timelocal will generate if you have a bad date..

# don't forget that the month is indexed from 0!

# Fri Dec 13 10:11:08 PST 2002

my $date = shift; my $i;

my %months = map { $_ => $i++ } qw!Jan Fev Mar Abr Mai Jun Jul Ago Set Out Nov Dez!;

my ($day, $mon, $year) = split(/-/, $date);



exists $months{$mon} or return undef;

$day = int($day); $year = $year - 1900;



require Time::Local;

my $time = 0;

eval {

$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0,$day,0,$months{$mon},$year); (*** This is s line was cahnge for solve a problem with date and what's new page ***)

};

if ($@) { die "invalid date format: $date - parsed as (day: $day, month: $months{$mon}, year: $year). Reason: $@"; }

return $time;

}



Thanks for all.

Now, have a new error, the counting of links new, is being made made a mistake. I use 30 days old, and the counting is being made in 102 days doesn't know as to solve this.

My old links:

$db_new_cutoff = 15;

Now i need a advanced help.

Thanks

Quirino

This may not solve your problem, but when you put a comment in the code, it needs a hash mark (pound sign?) in front of it, so your code



Should look like this



or you can put the comment on its' own line, but make sure there is aline break between comment and code (not a wrapped line).



Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

I am sorry about a my bad english, dear friend. In the code below, i don't put a message (*** This is a line was change for solve a problem with date and what's is new page ***), this message i put for all friends see about how is a my problem. My modified source code is below:

$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0,$day,0,$months{$mon},$year);

Still, i don't solve a my problem with a script (links 2.0), to be seeing last the 102 days as old. Therefore mine links.cfg says that it would to only see last the 15 days. ($db_new_cutoff = 15;).

I need a help.

Thanks

Quirino

That's great. At least I get my New Pages built again! But I have a 28 day cutoff, and all the new pages are showing clear back to June sometime...and also, it's not showing the new links that I added in December, either. :/

You should have a look at the solve for your original problem here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...20problem%21;#123915

After a lot of messing around with code changes, I found that fixing the date format in the links.db fixed everything and allowed the removal of all the code fixes. If you instal a new version of 2.0 it works fine with the exact same code as in the old links.cfg file, so the "invalid date format" problem is not in that file!