[ic] strange case of the disappearing usertag

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Mon Apr 22 12:21:02 2002


> 
> After much effort I have built a global usertag that fetches postal
> rates from Canada Post and offers them as options to the customer. I had
> my web host place it into the usertag directory and went to test it the
> next day. It didn't work because it had disappeared from the directory.
> 
> My host said he didn't erase it, so we placed it there again, tested it
> and jumped up and down for joy when it worked perfectly. The next day it
> was gone again and my host says he never touched it.
> 
> What is going one here? Some kind of cron gone crazy? An auto-immune
> response? Some automated task that is erasing that directory and
> refilling it with only the default usertags? I'm not a bad person! Why
> is this happening to me?!
> 
Interchange doesn't run around deleting UserTags, global or otherwise,
so this is a question for your host.  Perhaps they have some sort of
automated script, as you have suggested.

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