Quoting Wesley Alan Wright <[log in to unmask]>:
> Normally, these moves are transparent -- unless someone makes a hard  
> reference to them in, say, a php file.
> Apparently the cmoran account was moved, and now resides on disk rack3c
> As far as mediawiki is concerned, the path name is set automatically  
> during installation in the file LocalSettings.php
[snip]
> since TSG may move the account again. Rather, the correct approach is 
>  to use the (hopefully) permanent alias. In general, the alias is  
> named by the convention
> 	/users/x/y/xyzzzzz
> where
> 	xyzzzzz is the NetID
> 	x is the first letter of the NetID
> 	y is the second letter of the NetID
[snip]
> And thanks for he heads-up -- I've got a couple of LocalSettings.php  
> files to update now, too!

THANKS! Phew.. simple change to make it work, and I appear to be back 
to normal.
I wonder if that is also somewhat relating the reason the update didn't 
work to move to 1.6.x... but I don't care right now... it's working.

Chris
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