This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: alt.hackers unmoderated?
Article: 8919 of alt.hackers From: sciri@redbox.newhackcity.net (Digital Grindage) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: alt.hackers unmoderated? Date: 23 Oct 1995 01:19:49 GMT Organization: New Hack City Lines: 29 Approved: me@there.com Message-ID: 46eqjl$26d@caesar.ultra.net NNTP-Posting-Host: redbox.newhackcity.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Jeff Mercer (riffer@freenet4.freenet.ufl.edu) wrote:
: On a VAX/VMS system, you can send a file to yourself with the SEND/FILE
: command. The file is sent via a BitNettish protocol and is stored on a
ObKindaTheSameHack:
The same holds true on some UNIX systems...something like this would
probably work if you kept all of your big stuff in ~/overflow...
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
foreach $line (showquota)
{
if($line =~ /Quota Exceeded/)
{
system "/bin/tar zcvf /home/sciri/backup.tgz
/home/sciri/overflow/*";
system "/bin/rm /home/sciri/overflow/*";
system "/usr/bin/uuencode backup.tgz backup.tgz.uue | mail
sciri";
system "/bin/rm /home/sciri/backup.tgz
}
}
Lame to use system in a perlscript, but what the hell...<heh>
--
"Your information is mine for free. But everything I can grab is secret
unless you have something I want which can't be free-loaded, stolen or
found somewhere else." - George C. Smith, The Virus Creation Labs
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