Hi folks,
I'm sorry for the short notice but I have intervened and disabled supersearch.cgi as follows,
chmod a-x /home/earle/openguides.org/london/supersearch.cgi chmod a-x /home/earle/openguides.org/manchester/supersearch.cgi chmod a-x /home/earle/openguides.org/reading/supersearch.cgi
I have never edited permissions on anyone's files on any site without being requested to so this is exceptional. I didn't receive any plans on how to fix this issue since I highlighted it 21 Oct 04 and with about 20 instances of this process driving the load over 25 just now I took action.
Feel free to switch it on at your discretion when you feel it's not a liability anymore. Please let me know when you do this.
(For those curious about the extent to which a process has to go to to bring this machine down, it's a 1.8GHz P4 512MB RAM and RAID0 7,200rpm disks.)
Paul