State of the Faux

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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http://faux-pseudo.livejournal.com

90% of your Post is not ascii-art. Thats off-topic.

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Faux_Pseudo wrote:

> My main system has been having [...]

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* Daniel Berger wrote :
> 90% of your Post is not ascii-art. Thats off-topic.
>
>  #0
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>  LL
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Not sure if you're kidding or not, but if you check the history
of posts in this group you will find that he is one of the
biggest contributors of ascii-art here.  Additionally, what he was
posting about was the scripts behind the (mostly) daily ascii art
farts that showcase ascii art and humour here, but is having
computer problems at the moment.

-- 
Troy Piggins

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.  
>
> --
> =()==()==()==()==()-http://fauxascii.com
>   \   \   \   \   \   \  ASCII artist
>  :F_P:-O- -O- -O- -O- -O- -O- -O-http://faux-pseudo.livejournal.com

that sux

Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@gmail.com> schrieb:

>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.

Ist it okay for you, if I run the bot? see
4a6b19d6$0$32682$9b4...@newsspool2.arcor-online.net

Bjoern

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