I accidentally messed up my user.tab file and restored it from backup, not realizing a new user had registered since the last backup I was using.

He had made some posts but now a different user has the user number.

Is it just a simple matter of getting all the posts by the old sender_userid from the header and rewriting with the new userid as long as from matches the old username?

Thankfully he really only posted in one or two fido echoes but I also want to make sure any personal netmail is transfered over.

Thanks,
Nigel
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Re: Fixings posts
By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Fri Dec 23 2022 13:52:02

So what you'd you do your user.tab file?

I was trying to change the classic default shell to "eotl" for all users and looks like I screwed up the find/replace somewhere. It worked for a couple of test accounts then about a week after I got a user email me that he couldn't login and when I used uedit all sorts of things were messed up.

That's when we had a short conversation on IRC about updating the shell using js instead. A much safer method and easier to implement than I thought it would be.
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Re: Fixings posts
By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Sat Dec 24 2022 12:35 am

Re: Fixings posts
By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Fri Dec 23 2022 13:52:02

So what you'd you do your user.tab file?

I was trying to change the classic default shell to "eotl" for all users and looks like I screwed up the find/replace somewhere. It worked for a couple

you should put code in your login to do a check for their shell and
change it if needed.
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