Question about a weird file

[rootsxrocks]

zdberr2546844291bb683409e741c6bfea6d8a.dat
zdberredcc7f524ea7667d8e2779637de7120c.dat mine has just a slightly different name and content but simular enough to say they have the same source.
13207251452006
13213717301054

probably unrelated but another strange thing I have found is my #1

Search Keyphrase is

4e488559

and I can not find this anywhere in any file or post on the site.

[bflop]

Okay, I purposely restarted my server and sure enough the file was recreated:
zdberra(a long string of numbers).dat
When I open it in a text editor all it contains is a string of numbers.

FYI: my e-mail is set correctly in configure.php so I do receive an e-mail whenever the database connection is lost.

[Wayne Luke]

According to the code, it should be created once if you get a series of database errors within a minute or so. After the initial database error is emailed then it tries to log them in this file. Could be a bug causing it to be created without database errors but it is an innocuous file and there is no harm in just letting it sit there.

[rootsxrocks]

how did you decipher what that code is suposed to do Wayne? is there a standard somewhere

[Wayne Luke]

how did you decipher what that code is suposed to do Wayne? is there a standard somewhere

It is written in PHP...

            // Try and stop e-mail flooding.
            if (!$vbulletin->options['disableerroremail'])
            {
                if (!$vbulletin->options['safeupload'])
                {
                    $tempdir = ini_get('upload_tmp_dir');
                }
                else
                {
                    $tempdir = $vbulletin->options['tmppath'] . '/';
                }

                $unique = md5(COOKIE_SALT);
                $tempfile = $tempdir."zdberr$unique.dat";

                /* If its less than a minute since the last e-mail
                and the error code is the same as last time, disable e-mail */
                if ($data = @file_get_contents($tempfile))
                {
                    $errc = intval(substr($data, 10));
                    $time = intval(substr($data, 0, 10));
                    if ($time AND (TIMENOW - $time) < 60
                        AND intval($this->errno) == $errc)
                    {
                        $vbulletin->options['disableerroremail'] = true;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        $data = TIMENOW.intval($this->errno);
                        @file_put_contents($tempfile, $data);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    $data = TIMENOW.intval($this->errno);
                    @file_put_contents($tempfile, $data);
                }
            }

The value in the file is the time the database error occurred and the error number.

[rootsxrocks]

Oh thank you I see now, I renamed the one in my root and it was recreated in just a moment. with exactly the same content.

[IcEWoLF]

Ah, useful thread!
I found myself one too: zdberr4985a4ba4d080a0ac131af169ea76ae6.dat
Some numbers inside of it.
I'll take a look and see what's wrong.

[Boofo]

I just started noticed those files after I upgraded from 4.1.5 to 4.1.8. I never saw them before. I just got one a few minutes ago and I had a db error that was emailed to me just fine. But only one error, no others. Was something changed in 4.1.8 to cause these to start showing up for everyone?

[Mitzy]

haha what a terribly dumb and insensitive signature you have.

[Boofo]

How do you figure?

[Mitzy]

How do you figure?

I get the 'joke' but laughing at someone who was illegally murdered in their own home by American criminals, well I'll leave you to it.

[g00gl3r]

Don't want to get into the terrorist debate, but I too keep getting this file and it doesn't seem to have any content in it except about 7 numbers. I wondered how to get rid of it, and failing that, if I use the numbers for the lottery, do you think it'll win?

[1QuickSI]

Same here, keep getting it over and over no matter how many times I delete it. No errors just this weird dat file appearing...