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This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages of interest to people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration. The official front page URLs are https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ or http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ .
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This is Greg's (also known as [[GreyCat]]'s) wiki. It has a few pages which may be of interest for people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration.  * [[BashFAQ]] is the 'official' channel FAQ for [[https://libera.chat/|libera]]'s [[irc://irc.libera.chat/#bash|#bash]] IRC channel.
 * For common mistakes made by Bash programmers, see BashPitfalls.
 * For learning Bash, try the BashGuide.
 * For a quick reference, use BashSheet.
 * For more advanced shell topics, see BashProgramming.
 * For general Unix issues, try some of the pages in CategoryUnix.
 * [[https://cr.yp.to/qmail.html|qmail]] users, see CategoryQmail.
 * [[http://www.openssh.org/|ssh]] users, try CategorySsh.
 * Miscellaneous pages: NetEtiquette, XyProblem. There are also some [[CategoryRant|rants]].
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== Important notice to contributors - we need your help! ==
Some wishing to use content published on this wiki have expressed concern over its lack of copyright licensing from contributors. If you are a frequent or past contributor to greycat's wiki, it would be very helpful if you would please license your work, by creating a user page including a notice asserting your willingness to permit reuse of contributions by others. We recommend either [[https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0|CC zero]] or [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0|CC-BY]], as these are standard, widely-recognized and flexible licenses for sharing general wiki material. But really any license is better than none, so please choose one and post!
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The 'official' channel FAQ for [[http://freenode.net|freenode]]'s `#bash` channel is [[BashFAQ]]. For common mistakes made by Bash programmers, see BashPitfalls. For learning Bash, try the BashGuide (in progress). If you are unwilling or unable to share, a user page explicitly stating such is still helpful.
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For general Unix issues, try some of the pages in CategoryUnix. [[http://www.qmail.org|qmail]] users, see CategoryQmail. [[http://www.openssh.org/|ssh]] users, try CategorySsh. The [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIRC|Debian wiki]] has some more resources that may be useful.
 
Miscellaneous pages: NetEtiquette, XyProblem.

There are also some [[CategoryRant|rants]].		 Questions / comments => [[ormaaj]]
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  To the idiot at 219.88.*.* who kept porn-spamming this page: congratulations. Because of you, I have blocked the entire /16 netblock (apparently a huge chunk of New Zealand). '''Why''' do we let idiots have dynamic IP addresses?? This wiki uses [[HelpOnSpam|text captchas]] on page edits. [[TrustedEditorGroup|Trusted editors]] will not see them.
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 Also, congratulations to greycat for blocking a whopping 65536 users out of spite just to stop one little spammer - an obviously constructive method of dealing with the fact that one's running an open wiki on a hostile network. The [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIRC|Debian wiki]] has some more resources that may be useful.
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  And what would you do instead? Require me to activate wiki accounts by hand before letting people edit pages? This is a [[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin]] wiki. Language packages have been installed for English, French, German and Spanish, but virtually all the content is in English.
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   A suggestion 1) I get a lot of mileage on my personal wiki out of blocking anonymous users from saving pages with URLs in them.

   A suggestion 2) Please install and activate ''Captchpa'' feature which would be asked before attempting to edit a page

   A suggestion 3) Require to to use ''Preview'' before page is actually posted.

   A suggestion 4) Use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)|teergrube]] (technique from SMTP spammer tar-pits). Accept page only after N minutes has passed since user pressed ''edit''. Say 3 minutes.

  (From an unaffected chunk of NZ): Thanks for the pages, greycat. It occurs to me that a wiki ought to be able to block edits from IP ranges without blocking views. I'll look into moinmoin.

 As of a couple days ago (early Feb 2009), this wiki now uses [[HelpOnTextChas|text captchas]] on page edits. [[TrustedEditorGroup|Trusted editors]] will not see them. If you're not smart enough to answer the (extremely simple) questions, then you lose. (That's potentially a small problem on pages that say "ask your questions here", but really... the captcha questions are ''very'' simple.) I also removed all firewall-level IP blocks, for now at least.

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This is a [[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin]] wiki. Language packages have been installed for German and Spanish (''need to verify...?''), but virtually all the content herein is in English. This wiki is running under [[HelpOnInstalling/TwistedWeb|twisted]] on port 8000, with an Apache reverse proxy pointing to it. Thus, you may reach it either via http://wooledge.org:8000/ (talking directly to twisted), or http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ (virtual host through Apache proxy).		 As of April 2014, this wiki runs on a Debian virtual private server with [[http://nginx.org/|nginx]] and [[http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/|uWSGI]]. In December 2012, this wiki was moved to the same Debian virtual private server with Apache2 and mod_wsgi. Prior to that, it ran on an OpenBSD box with a very slow Internet connection, using [[http://moinmo.in/HowTo/ApacheWithCherryPy|CherryPy]] with Apache rewriting magic to help out. Prior to ''that'', it ran on the same box using the "twisted" package (instructions for that no longer exist!), with a simpler Apache reverse proxy pointing to it.
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 * SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax
 * SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains
 		  * HelpOnEditing, HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki syntax
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 * Edit any page by pressing `GetText(Edit)` at the top or the bottom of the page
 * Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with {{{[[words in double square brackets]]}}}
* Edit any page by clicking `Edit(Text)` at the top or the bottom of the page
 * Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like  WikiSandBox) or with {{{[[words in double square brackets]]}}}
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To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about MoinMoin:WhyWikiWorks and the MoinMoin:WikiNature. Also, consult the MoinMoin:WikiWikiWebFaq.
This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.		 To  learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about  MoinMoin:WhyWikiWorks and the MoinMoin:WikiNature. Also, consult the  MoinMoin:WikiWikiWebFaq. This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.

Greg's Wiki

This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages of interest to people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration. The official front page URLs are https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ or http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ .

Important notice to contributors - we need your help!

Some wishing to use content published on this wiki have expressed concern over its lack of copyright licensing from contributors. If you are a frequent or past contributor to greycat's wiki, it would be very helpful if you would please license your work, by creating a user page including a notice asserting your willingness to permit reuse of contributions by others. We recommend either CC zero or CC-BY, as these are standard, widely-recognized and flexible licenses for sharing general wiki material. But really any license is better than none, so please choose one and post!

If you are unwilling or unable to share, a user page explicitly stating such is still helpful.

Questions / comments => ormaaj

This wiki uses text captchas on page edits. Trusted editors will not see them.

The Debian wiki has some more resources that may be useful.

This is a MoinMoin wiki. Language packages have been installed for English, French, German and Spanish, but virtually all the content is in English.

As of April 2014, this wiki runs on a Debian virtual private server with nginx and uWSGI. In December 2012, this wiki was moved to the same Debian virtual private server with Apache2 and mod_wsgi. Prior to that, it ran on an OpenBSD box with a very slow Internet connection, using CherryPy with Apache rewriting magic to help out. Prior to that, it ran on the same box using the "twisted" package (instructions for that no longer exist!), with a simpler Apache reverse proxy pointing to it.

Generic wiki stuff

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

  • Edit any page by clicking Edit(Text) at the top or the bottom of the page

  • Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[words in double square brackets]]

  • Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

  • See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq. This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.

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