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.
> They might need that as sort of an invoice.
LOL! Yes, good point.
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