[780] in Moira
Re: Two incorrect strings....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Sep 13 13:52:03 1994
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:51:54 +0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Pamela J. Benson <pjb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Pamela J. Benson's message of Tue, 13 Sep 1994 12:06:17 EDT,
<9409131606.AA23825@pickle-pebble.MIT.EDU>
From: Pamela J. Benson <pjb@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 12:06:17 EDT
Sender: pjb@MIT.EDU
The first list is "hsnet" (it was previously "hsnetwork", but now has
been renamed). The string member which I'm not able to remove is
250-<stanh@mitvmc.mit.u>yu
as it's listed from the expn output.
The first one I was able to remove using blanche; the problem was the
string member was actually "stanh@mitvmc.mit.eduy^H^H^H^Hyu", where the
^H was the backspace character.
I figured this out by running "blanche hsnet | cat -v", and then removed
it by using ^V^H to insert the ^H into the shell command line. So
that's a useful trick you can try if you find a wierd moira string name
that users are having trouble removing.
The other list is "csc-announce" and the string member is " #those who
aren't members yet"
We're tried different option in blanche to try to remove this member,
but we have not been successful.
This is the standard problem where a user inserts a ' character into a
list, and the Moira code isn't quoting the ' character correctly in all
places --- apparently Ingres SQL has some really screwy quoting
convetions, where it needs to be quoted in some places, but not others.
This is a server bug, but we should probably just hack around it for now
by changing blanche to not add string names with the ' characters, and
possibly also ignoring lines that begin with a '#'.
- Ted
