[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by valdet

Hi Simon,

Hope you got your forum problems sorted

I noticed that the mod will not create new threads on private forums, where only admins can post/read.
I am using my admin account as thread creator, so it has permissions to create threads. The threads are created only on public forums where other members and guests can see them, which of course isn't nice.

The output.txt file writing is also not logging anything.

But from my server logs, I see this mod has been doing incredibly well in blocking some nasty spiders (mainly Magpie and Spinn3r).

For those who don't check their server logs, I would advise to check them and see if Magpie is sucking up to 40% of bandwidth as it was until recently in one of my sites.

Glad it's working for you, on my forum I simply added a forum where only staf had permissions to view and made the threads there, I also had no issue with logging.

I did get my forum issues sorted, turns out it was a half assed script kiddie attempt to kill it but got it sorted (one of my forums allowed html in the post environment....really bad idea!). When I get chance (which will be after Thursday as my wife is having an op) I will retest the mod from scratch and post specifics here.