In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Bauer writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb: > >> Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated to >> many errors that the log partition ran full. >> >> I hope everything is humming again now. > >I don't get it. As English is not my mother tounge, I even ran "scraper" >through a dictionary. Among the exactly 50 translations of which it can >mean in German (http://www.dict.cc/?s=scraper) there is not a single one >which would even remotely make sense. Would you mind explain what >happened there?
Appearantly somebody wanted a private copy of the mailing-list archives and wrote a perl script to pick it out through the web-interface. In practice he couldn't code, so about 9 out of ten requests were in error. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
