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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. This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages which may be of interest for people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration. Its official front page URL is http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ .
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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). The 'official' channel FAQ for [[http://freenode.net/|freenode]]'s [[irc://chat.freenode.net/#bash|#bash]] IRC channel is [[BashFAQ]]. For common mistakes made by Bash programmers, see BashPitfalls. For learning Bash, try the BashGuide. For a quick reference, use BashSheet.
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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. 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.
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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??

 . 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.
  . And what would you do instead? Require me to activate wiki accounts by hand before letting people edit pages?
   . 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.		 This wiki uses [[HelpOnSpam|text captchas]] on page edits. [[TrustedEditorGroup|Trusted editors]] will not see them.
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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]], with an Apache reverse proxy pointing to it. It should be reached using http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ (virtual host going through Apache proxy).
 ''The twisted configuration is apparently deprecated now by the Moin folks, in favor of WSGI running under Apache mod_wsgi or Cherrypy. I'm working on getting it running under Cherrypy, and it's very close now. The big difference is that Cherrypy/WSGI doesn't handle the `/moin_staticNNN/` content internally like the twisted version does; it relies on a static web server (Apache) to do so. So, the old `:8000` URL will no longer be totally functional when the switchover is made. This means you should '''change your bookmarks''' if you still have any pointing to the `:8000` URL!'' -GreyCat		 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.

As of December 2012, this wiki runs on a 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  * Edit any page by clicking `Edit(Text)` at the top or the bottom of the page

Greg's Wiki

This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages which may be of interest for people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration. Its official front page URL is http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ .

The 'official' channel FAQ for freenode's #bash IRC channel is BashFAQ. For common mistakes made by Bash programmers, see BashPitfalls. For learning Bash, try the BashGuide. For a quick reference, use BashSheet.

For general Unix issues, try some of the pages in CategoryUnix. qmail users, see CategoryQmail. ssh users, try CategorySsh. The Debian wiki has some more resources that may be useful.

Miscellaneous pages: NetEtiquette, XyProblem.

There are also some rants.

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

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 December 2012, this wiki runs on a 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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