__/ [ William Poaster ] on Saturday 09 June 2007 15:46 \__
> It was on, or about, Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:17:01 +0100, that as I was
> halfway through a large jam doughnut, [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>>
>>> If you're going to filter the trolls
>>
>> The absence of the Trolls' stats is an error.
>>
>> I recently upgraded the server (sky) that hosts the leafnode spool, and
>> it turns out that Fedora 7 uses a new default setting in an essential
>> file.
>>
>> My leafnode server usually filters all the Trolls, but for the stats I
>> have a helper script which re-fetches those Troll posts from the past
>> week, using a less aggressive filter:
>>
>> ###### part of cola-stats
>> rm -f /etc/leafnode/config
>> cp /etc/leafnode/config.stats /etc/leafnode/config sudo -u news rsync
>> --delete -aHz /var/spool/news/ /shared/news/ sudo -u news
>> /usr/sbin/fetchnews -q -w -x 6000 ######
>>
>> 6000 is just an arbitrarily large number to ensure sufficient coverage
>> (it's rsync'ed back to it's previous state after the stats have been
>> compiled).
>>
>> I just logged in to the server and read the local root mail:
>>
>> ######
>> From: root@sky (Cron Daemon)
>> Subject: Cron <root@sky> /usr/local/bin/cola-stats Date: Sat, 9 Jun
>> 2007 07:30:03 +0100 (BST)
>>
>> sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo ######
>>
>> The new default setting in /etc/sudoers is the following:
>>
>> ######
>> Defaults requiretty
>> ######
>>
>> I've commented that out, and the script should work again.
>>
>>> you should still be nice to them and provide a "Toplist of Trolls".
>>
>> Bah! Just allowing them to appear at *all* is more of a concession than
>> I'm happy with, I'm not going to waste any *more* time and effort on
>> them.
>
> I was going to suggest putting them under a separate header...
They are already put there. The header says "#COLA twit list". Order is
arbitrary.
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