X-Google-Thread: 13235db79e,37daccc74bcc7f30,start X-Google-Attributes: gid13235db79e,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe23.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo Subject: State of the Faux Reply-To: f0_sud0@yahoo.com X-Why: Are you reading this User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Lines: 52 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.218.145.249 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@cox.net X-Trace: newsfe23.iad 1248050019 72.218.145.249 (Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:33:39 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:33:39 UTC Organization: Cox Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:33:39 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com alt.ascii-art:1120 My main system has been having issues staying powered on for more than 30 minutes at a time. Its on its last leg. This is the first time I have booted it in months and that was to rip some CDs. It is where the ascii art farts reposting bot is located so since it hasn't beenon it hasn't been running. Someone asked about what it would take to get the farts reposted here like they have historically been. It all runs on a linux system. Nothing to special is involved. here is the entryin my crontab 10 8 * * * /home/faux/bin/fart.sh 2>/dev/null Here is the script used to post them. The only program you need is newspost which is easy enough to compile. #!/bin/bash ## start bad code that will need updating since ## it has no error checking at all. source /home/faux/.bashrc FART="$(lynx -dump -source http://www.asciiartfarts.com/current.txt)" TITLE="$(echo "$FART" | grep ^\# | head -1 | sed 's/ (.*//')" BODY="$(echo "$FART" | tail +10)" SUBJECT="ASCII Art Fart for $(echo "$FART" | grep ^\# | head -1 | sed -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/).*//'): $TITLE" echo " $TITLE" > /home/faux/.fart echo "$BODY" >> /home/faux/.fart echo -e '\nTaken from ' >> /home/faux/.fart diff /home/faux/.fart /home/faux/.fart.old >/dev/null if [[ "$?" == "0" ]] ; then : ; else newspost -i news.east.cox.net -f "F0Sud0@gmail.com" -F Faux_Tran -n \ alt.ascii-art -s "$SUBJECT" -t /home/faux/.fart #2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null fi if [[ -n "$1" ]] ; then newspost -i news.east.cox.net -f "F0Sud0@gmail.com" -F Faux_Tran -n \ alt.ascii-art -s "$SUBJECT" -t /home/faux/.fart #2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null fi cp /home/faux/.fart /home/faux/.fart.old Once I get some money together I am going to replace this system with a netbook which will basically act as a headless server that happens to have a head. Then I will be able to start running the scrip again and maybe even putting together some new ascii art. I know someone that might make a good model and might be good for some ascii pr0n goodness. -- =()==()==()==()==()- http://fauxascii.com \ \ \ \ \ \ ASCII artist :F_P:-O- -O- -O- -O- -O- -O- -O- http://faux-pseudo.livejournal.com