Systems Adminstrator's Blogs Are Boring.
This one, I'm sure, is no exception. Posts are often written at the end of a long working day; I'm frequently confused, drunk and alone.
Or am I?
Well blow me. I haven't heard from Mortimer Hebblethwaite since he left MCC and disappeared back in the noughties. I feel quite nostalgic.
This must be the source for that bot Morty wrote. Naughty Morty.
Script started on Fri Oct 3 11:48:48 2014
vagabond% c ^H^H^[[Kcd /mnt
^[]0;vagabond::/mnt^Gvagabond% ls
bin conf data etc log run sbin
vagabond% ls -l
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 17 2003 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 18 2003 conf
drwxr-xr-x 4 mortimer staff 2048 Dec 9 2003 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 17 2003 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 4 2003 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 4 2003 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 mortimer staff 512 Dec 7 2003 sbin
vagabond% ls bin
BotArchal.pm BotFlonk.pm BotPhrase.pm inews gdmcore
BotCrime.pm BotFortune.pm NewsStalker.pm nhdr sockpost
BotDaisy.pm BotMarkov.pm botchan polybot
vagabond% more bin/gd^Gvagabond% more ^H^H^H^H^H^[[5P^[[Kmore bin/gdm^Gcore
^[[?1h^[=#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
# This is the bot, bot, and furthermore, bot.
# *** Copyright (C) 1996 Mortimer Hebblethwaite, XenoPsyche Inc., England. ***
# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT CONTAINS ALGORITHMS WHICH ARE
# PROTECTED BY LAW THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN AND
# AUSTRALIA.
#
# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
require '/usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars.pl';
use strict;
use Sys::Syslog;
use Getopt::Std;
my $DEFAULTEDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/emacs";
my $MYDIR = "/usr/local/news/bothaus";
my $DATADIR = "$MYDIR/data";
my $CONFDIR = "$MYDIR/conf";
my $BINDIR = "$MYDIR/bin";
my $INEWS = "/usr/local/bin/inews";
my $SM = "/usr/local/news/bin/sm";
# command line parameters
ESC[7m--More--(15%)ESC[27mESC[KESC[KESC[?1lESC>You have new mail in /var/mail/ip
vagabond% ESC[Kexit
Script done on Fri Oct 3 11:52:58 2014