March 30, 2004
Blargh...

Not much new, but I had to log into try a PHP Auto-update script for MT-Blacklist, so I figured I might as well write -something- while I was logged in. As for the PHP script, it seems to work, though I'm not sure that I like that it logs itself in to make the updates, but doesn't log itself out. I'm tempted to look up the python auto-updater, but this server has a very much dated python install (I found this out trying to get a BitTorrent tracker running on it), so it's probably not an option.

Of course, this site gets so little traffic that it doesn't really matter if I update the blacklist that infrequently... and the recent spam that got through would have still gotten through since it wasn't added to the central blacklist until a few days after I got hit with it.

In any case, we'll see what happens with it... theoratically, if it doesn't log in, then it'll stay logged in rather than logging in multiple times, so if it does that, then I don't mind... it's not like anyone's going to try to hack in the site from localhost, anyways, and the update user is pretty crippled anyways. (I'm actually going to have to check back to see whether or not it's -too- crippled and needs more privs to actually function...)

Posted at 09:12 PM
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