www.rockbox.org broken again

[Bagder]

hi friends.

Around 04:50 CET this morning, once again someone managed to hack the site and erase large parts of its contents. (We do suspect it was done through twiki)

Lots of stuff is still working and we'll get a backup restored as soon as possible.

Please bear with us.

[Mikerman]

I'm so sorry to hear about this, and I just don't get the cheap thrills that some morphod apparently gets by causing others hassle and wasted time.

Thank you for your efforts.

[atomik]

there are too many people with time to lose ,

is very bad

[miner49er]

There are some real idiots in this world. I don't suppose there's is anything that can be done to catch the person responsible and cut his balls off?

[mgl888]

what do they seriously get out of hacking a non-profit site like this?
f***ing idiots

[dommo]

Watch it be Steve Jobs or someone like that.

Shame to see that there are people out there sad enough to do something like this to people that earn nothing from this site

[Peter200lx]

Just curious, is there any more solid wiki system then the twiki? It seems that that system has been hacked *way* too much. We've lost that part of the site, what, 4 times now at least?

[Phalangees]

Watch it be Steve Jobs or someone like that.

pissed off because we changed the ipod firmware.  

[bk]

I don't know about how resource efficient it is, but MediaWiki seems to be a solid system that a lot of people use.

After three times of having twiki compromised, maybe alternatives should be considered.

[foolsh]

[14:10] What freak did this?
[14:10] did what?
[14:10] GodEater: spot the bug: (cd rockbox_html/cvs-bak; find . -ctime +7 -exec rm {}
[14:10] Vandalize the site?
[14:10] D0ug: the code snippet above did
[14:10] hehehe - oops
[14:10] D0ug: false alarm, it was not a hack this time
[14:10] Zagor: i'm afraid i don't speak find
[14:11] really?
[14:11] Do you need the .bin file
[14:11] Did it crash or something?
[14:11] robin0800_: You just need this patch (linked from the tracker page) - http://www.lostlogicx.com/transfer/rockbox/kernel_on_cop_6.diff
[14:12] that was supposed to remove files older than 7 days (he guesses)
[14:12] I need to remind myself what ctime is for
[14:12] kk, sorry I realize you just answered that qn... I am feeling a bit dense today
[14:13] GodEater: well, it did. the problem is the ; character. it doesn't abort when the previous command fails. and the cd failed because the cvs-bak directory no longer exists...
[14:13] Any irreperable damage?
[14:13] ah yes
[14:13] Zagor: ahhaha
[14:13] it should have been &&
[14:13] && is your friend
[14:13] indeed
[14:13] heh
[14:13] * GodEater hasn't used ";" in a script for years

[Phalangees]

just about to post that myself

[Spug]

Haha   That's great. Too bad, but at least nobody hacked the site.

[iwantanimac]

damn. i hope everything is recoverable...

As for switching to MediaWiki apparently going Twiki -> MediaWiki (Or in reverse) is rather difficult, though I read that a few years ago so it may no longer be the case...

Good luck getting it back up.

[psycho_maniac]

just thought id help for information

twiki to mediawiki converter

main page where i got converter

Converting TWiki to MediaWiki

google search which you can modify so you get less and better results. but the results seem promising.

[fml2]

I don't know about how resource efficient it is, but MediaWiki seems to be a solid system that a lot of people use.

After three times of having twiki compromised, maybe alternatives should be considered.

I've heard much positive feedback about confluence -- a wiki system done by atlassian. It's a commercial system but they (I've heard) offer hosting without charge for non-profit projects.