Re: State of the Faux

On Jul 19, 5:33 pm, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <url:http://www.asciiartfarts.com/>' >> /home/faux/.fart
> diff /home/faux/.fart  /home/faux/.fart.old >/dev/null
> if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]  ; then : ; else
> newspost  -i news.east.cox.net -f "F0S...@gmail.com" -F Faux_Tran -n \
>  alt.ascii-art -s "$SUBJECT" -t /home/faux/.fart #2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
> fi
> if [[ -n "$1" ]] ; then
> newspost  -i news.east.cox.net -f "F0S...@gmail.com" -F Faux_Tran -n \
>  alt.ascii-art -s "$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.  
>
> --
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>   \   \   \   \   \   \  ASCII artist
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that sux

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