[pLog-svn] File integrity check?

[Jon Daley]

 	I suppose we should save the output of the md5 check somewhere - 
or perhaps have it as an option in the admin menu, so we can ask them to 
run it when they report the problem, rather than just in the wizard.

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:
> Yes, I assume that there could be legitimate discrepancies between the
> expected and actual results and that's why instead of showing an error
> we should just show a warning. At that point it will be up to the
> users to cancel the process and upload these files again or check that
> the reported discrepancies match with files that they customized. If
> they made no changes but still decide to go ahead despite the
> warnings, we can always point this out when they complain in the
> forums and nicely refuse to help them until they sort out the mess
> with their files.
>
> On 5/21/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>>> I've recently noticed in the forums many weird issues related to
>>> people uploading files incorrectly and/or FTP clients messing up file
>>> uploads, which then caused LT to behave in "funny" ways.
>>         Yes.
>>
>>> I'm wondering if anybody has any idea about how we could detect these
>>> situations.
>>         The only problem I see with your md5 idea is what about
>> modifications they intended to make?  I guess they could look at the list
>> and decide whether they had modified them or not.
>>
>>         I just checked the class and templates directory.  The class
>> directory took me 5 seconds to compute the sums, and the templates
>> directory (including all 1.2 templates) took 15 seconds.  It seems that my
>> server is less loaded than most of the servers that we hear about on the
>> forums.