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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2005-04-29T09:44:08Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="1503" ns="0" title="Script ausführen beim starten und beenden der DS" pageid="1603" type="delete" action="restore" user="Admin" timestamp="2010-06-09T13:08:32Z" comment="1 Version wurde wiederhergestellt" />
      <item logid="1502" ns="0" title="Script ausführen beim starten und beenden der DS" pageid="1603" type="delete" action="delete" user="Admin" timestamp="2010-06-09T13:07:28Z" comment="Wunsch des Autors:&amp;#32;Inhalt war: „Möchte man einen Script beim Starten oder Beenden der DiskStation ausführen, so muss es ins folgende Verzeichnis erstellt werden:  /usr/syno/etc.defaults/rc.d/  Der Me…“ (einziger Bearbeiter: [[Special:Contribut" />
      <item logid="1501" ns="105" title="Private:Test" pageid="1597" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Admin" timestamp="2010-05-04T15:59:16Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2065" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1500" ns="100" title=":Test" pageid="1596" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Admin" timestamp="2010-05-04T15:45:28Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2064" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1499" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Joachim.schuster" pageid="0" type="renameuser" action="renameuser" user="Admin" timestamp="2009-08-26T22:17:57Z" comment="343 Bearbeitungen. Grund: ">
        <param>Joachim</param>
      </item>
      <item logid="1498" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Joseph" pageid="0" type="renameuser" action="renameuser" user="Admin" timestamp="2009-08-26T22:17:27Z" comment="343 Bearbeitungen. Grund: ">
        <param>Joachim.schuster</param>
      </item>
      <item logid="7" ns="0" title="Installation" pageid="1583" type="move" action="move" user="Joachim" timestamp="2009-07-31T07:49:09Z" comment="Link-Titel war zu allgemein">
        <move new_ns="0" new_title="InstallationWordpress" />
      </item>
      <item logid="6" ns="6" title="Datei:Mysqladmin error.jpg" pageid="961" type="upload" action="upload" user="Joachim" timestamp="2005-09-22T15:21:15Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5" ns="6" title="Datei:Isaleinstallproblem.jpg" pageid="957" type="upload" action="upload" user="Joachim" timestamp="2005-07-28T11:11:10Z" comment="Screenshot vom Installer der Software iSale" />
      <item logid="4" ns="6" title="Datei:DDR-Vimpel.jpg" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="Admin" timestamp="2005-04-29T09:44:55Z" comment="" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>