I doubt anyone did anyone nefarious. I am not using the server_pool option - should I be? The machine in question has a user account set up just for running sage. If someone is really interested in taking a look I could create an account on it.
There was nothing out of the ordinary about the worksheet files that I could see. What determines which worksheets are displayed on the "Home" screen? If this happens again, my students are going to be very irritated. I hope it was a fluke. Tomorrow they will have a lab and will be hitting these machines pretty hard. -Marshall On Jan 28, 7:25 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 4:27 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I now have 14 students actively using Sage on 3 different servers, and > > I have run across a mysterious problem I haven't seen reported here > > before. Three of my students had worksheets suddenly go missing, > > without a deliberate delete. > > There's actually currently no way in the Sage notebook to delete a worksheet. > You can move it to the trash, but there's no functionality for actually > purging > the trash. So it's very curious that this happened. Do the students have > *any* > hints at all about what they might have done to cause the behavior? I wonder > if there are any hints in the worksheet files themselves? > > Sorry we haven't had any ideas yet, but in any case I think it's very helpful > that you reported this, so that we can keep it in mind, and if anything > similar > comes up know that it isn't just an isolated incident. > > By the way, do your run the worksheet processes under a separate user from > the sage notebook, e.g, use the server_pool option? If you don't on a public > notebook server, maybe a student did something very nefarious that resulted > in a deleted worksheet. > > > I looked in the notebook files and the > > worksheets were still there, just not visible on the list of > > worksheets. Any guesses on what happened? As a stopgap, I manually > > pasted in the worksheet text to a new copy, but if this happens a lot > > it will really aggravate them. > > > -M. Hampton > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
