CF4.5 on Linux crashing

Question

In the last week or so the service has started crashing
regularly. I'm new to CF so have looked into this like I would any
other web app. There haven't been any changes made to code on the
server since some time before this started happening. And the logs
don't seem to be very helpful.
Is it possible to increase the detail the CF logs include?
There's an error right before the most recent time it died as
follows:
"Error","TID=2257927","06/24/06","04:59:26","68.142.251.54","Mozilla/5.0
(compatible; Yahoo! Slurp;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)","ODBC
Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access
violation)<P><P> [MERANT][ODBC MySql driver][MySql]You
have an error in your SQL syntax near ':' at line
3<P><P><p>The error occurred while processing an
element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document
position (30:1) to (30:58).</p><P><P>Date/Time:
Sat Jun 24 04:59:26 2006<BR>Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;
Yahoo! Slurp;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)<BR>Remote
Address: 68.142.251.54<BR>Query String:
articleid=319:<P>"
This seems to suggest that someone's code maybe using badly
formed queries but since nothing seems to have changed its a little
strange that it would start happening out of the blue. Is there
anything in the error above to suggest which site is causing the
error, there are a couple of hundred sites on the server so without
knowing which site has caused the error there's not a lot I can do.
Any help gratefully received!!!
john

Answer 1

Check that page and if it works then it sounds like you need
to write a Search Engine Robot Filter. ie: Deny the bots access to
the page that fails. This is easily done by cfif useragent isn't ie
or moz then skip the output.
Hope this helps and solves your troubles :)