Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!heiby From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: undesirable groups a problem? Message-ID: <7660@mcdchg.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 21:21:41 GMT References: <7564@mcdchg.UUCP> Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL Lines: 85 Looks like I missed changing the two "break" statements to "continue" statements when I modified kill.group to handle multiple undesirable groups. I also added an efficiency hack (xargs) and an "-f" option to one of the "rm" commands, in case no files were found. ----- cut here ----- # # kill.group - Delete all articles posted or cross-posted to # a particularly obnoxious or undesirable newsgroup. # # Written by Ron Heiby for his own amusement. 3/29/88 # Minor fixes, mostly for multi-group kills: 5/6/88 # # There must be an opportunity between the time that news # is un-batched and the time it is batched for downstream # sites for this script to be run. (Simplest is to run a # script that calls your batching routine (like sendbatch), # but before it does, have it run this.) If you are running # SPOOLNEWS and/or SPOOLINEWS, the call to kill.group would # go just after the "rnews -U" line. # # invoke with (for example): kill.group alt.flame # # Any (reasonable) number of newsgroups can be specified on the # command line and will be zapped in the order given. Sub-groups # should be specified before parent groups for best effect. # HOME=`awk -F':' '/^usenet/ {print $6}' /etc/passwd` # News home directory SPOOL=$HOME/spool/news NAMES=/tmp/trash.$$ MYNAME=`uname` for newsgroup in $* do killdir=`echo $newsgroup | tr . /` if [ ! -d $SPOOL/$killdir ] # If no directory, nothing to do. then continue fi cd $SPOOL/$killdir if [ -z "`ls`" ] # If no files in directory, then continue # then don't bother with anything else. fi # Here, we look at the header lines for each article in the group, # looking for an Xref header line, meaning that the article was # cross-posted and must be exterminated in multiple newsgroups. # We specifically look only at the message header in case someone # were to post an article full of Xref lines causing other things # to be deleted. Also, we only look at our own system's Xref line. # We strip off the leading crap in the Xref line, leaving only the # newsgroup name and article number. Changing the "." and ":" # punctuation to "/" gives us pathnames relative to $SPOOL where # the trash can be found. for i in * do sed -e '/^$/q' $i | egrep "^Xref: $MYNAME " | sed -e "s/Xref: $MYNAME //" -e 's/:/\//g' -e 's/\./\//g' done > $NAMES # Since the pathnames are relative to $SPOOL, we cd there and do the rm. cd $SPOOL cat $NAMES | xargs rm -f #OLD STYLE# rm -f `cat $NAMES` # In case there were some articles in the group that weren't cross-posted # to some other group, we now wipe out the directory and everything # in it (but not sub-dirs), as well as our temp file. rm -f $killdir/* $NAMES 2>/dev/null rmdir $killdir 2>/dev/null done # Another job, well done! exit 0 ----- cut here ----- -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix "I believe in the Tooth Fairy." "I believe in Santa Claus." "I believe in the future of the Space Program."