[CGI] Updates of software system

[Ben Bullock]

Short version: there was a small amount of downtime for several FAQ conversion services, but things are now better than before and I've relaxed the overuse criteria.

Long version for those interested in the details:

I've been doing some work on the conversion programs at www.sljfaq.org/cgi/. I made a program to check that the remote program libraries are the same as the ones on my local system. Then I noticed that I needed to do an upgrade of the remote system so I did that. Normally it would go smoothly but something went wrong, so some users would have seen some errors. 

It was a bit mysterious, but I found that an old library file was out of synch using the new program to check remote versus local, which was a lucky coincidence. Then that old library was pulling in another old library which I thought I wasn't using any more, but the old version was still using it so the old library was being pulled in each time. 

Having solved that problem, I found another bug in the software which was causing a lot of error messages to be printed unnecessarily. Obviously this didn't affect end users but anyway things are looking smoother now.

I've been spending a lot of time where I can't disable the overuse switch easily, so I've relaxed the criteria for that, which means heavy users should get a lot less of the gibberish text.

[Ben Bullock]

Another update which I found after posting the above. The JavaScript for the e2k page had an error in it since January 2023 so it hasn't been serving using the AJAX version successfully since then. The problem was a stray colon in the JavaScript file called "e2k-3.js". This is now fixed. I probably should update the numerical version of the JavaScript as well. My web hosts have moved to New York so I had to update some of the internal uploading commands too. I did some work tidying up the upload things so that they all work better and various other tidying up.

[Ben Bullock]

A sudden outbreak of silence from sljfaq.org. I'd been used to getting a giant email of errors every day, but now no errors are showing up in the logs at all and everything is working fine. I've been a bit distracted away from the web pages recently.