Sentinel suddenly causing login errors

registered · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:54 pm

All of a sudden this afternoon, while adding a new category to my downloads area, Sentinel blocked me out as doing abuse-admin. I was logged in as the administrator at the time. I had to go to another computer to remove that block.

Now I can't log in no matter what I do. I keep getting the following errors:

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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/admintom/public_html/home/includes/sentinel.php:1060) in /home/admintom/public_html/home/modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 2283

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/admintom/public_html/home/includes/sentinel.php:1060) in /home/admintom/public_html/home/modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 2329

Any idea what happened??? I am using php-Nuke 7.4 with Sentinel 2.1.3. All seems to have been working okay until this afternoon.

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2.1.3 ?
Your way behind...lol

As to the errors...

did you touched the files :
sentinel.php

or the index.php file of your_account?

(btw...you dont have to goto another computer...
Just go into phpmyadmin and take your ip out of the blocked_ip's table...)

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:49 pm

As to your question

Quote:

did you touched the files :
sentinel.php

the answer is no. And to the question

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or the index.php file of your_account?

the answer here is also no. I have not had any mods to my system since upgrading my Last Visit Module about a week ago, and that did not involve either of these modules.

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:57 pm

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(btw...you dont have to goto another computer...
Just go into phpmyadmin and take your ip out of the blocked_ip's table...)

And if you have sentinel set to write to .htaccess you will need to remove your IP from that as well

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:23 pm

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And if you have sentinel set to write to .htaccess you will need to remove your IP from that as well

Yup, did that first thing. At that time I was getting the Sentinel screen saying I was blocked. Then after using my home PC, I was able to get into the admin functions (due tot he cookie, not due to logging it) and remove the IP address from Sentinel. And the rest is history.

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This question has been asked, and answered, probably more times than any other. A simple search in the forums will answer it. An, of course, a simple visit to the FAQ will answer it also.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:08 am

Well Raven, it may have been answered elsewhere, but simple seaches don't always bring an answer to an individual question. Nothing I found helped me. Anyway, it is now fixed. I was lucky enough to have done a complete backup of my domain about 18 hours before this happened. After finally getting the backup file to FTP to my PC, I started restoring what appeared to be the problem, one thing at a time.

First, the sentinel.php file. No luck. Then the complete your_account folder. Again no luck. By then it was so late and I was tired, I quit for the night.

This morning I restored the .htaccess and .staccess files.

SUCCESS!!! Cheers

I can't imagine what happened, but it is working now. The next step, I guess, is to see, from what I have gathered, is what the latest version of Sentinel is and upgrade.

Sentinel has been a very valuable addition to my site and has kept out a number of bad people. Thank you for everything!!! worship

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:07 am

Okay, now I have a really stupid question. Embarassed

As you stated earlier, I can see I am really behind on versions. I'd like to upgrade. But I see all these references to a "patched" php-nuke. Now here comes the stupid question - what is meant by "patched" php-nuke???

I don't think mine is patched and I assume that I would know if it was, correct? If it isn't, what is the advantage to the "patched" version? Confused

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:06 pm

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