My Afternoon at the Command Line

Phew what an afternoon I have had. I spent most of it in Terminal removing comment spam and disabling comments and trackbacks for school blog accounts on our x-serve.

The x-serve running Tiger Server is an easy platform to set up to host weblogs. It could not be easier to set up. Go into Server Admin and then web services and click the box that says "enable weblog server".

Here is the rub. Turned ON by default is the ability for anyone to comment (you can limit this in each account but that is a pain) at least you can turn it off or limit it. For trackbacks its a little bit different. Unless you go into the file /library/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/username/blog.properties
and change to blog-comments-enabled=false and blog-trackbacks-enabled=false then you cannot stop the p*orn spam.

So 3 hours later I have cleaned up over 40 blog accounts and removed the offensive spam and disabled comments and trackbacks.

Currently looking for some alternative for students to use to blog. My current recommendation BLOGGER !!! partly why I have switched myself to blogger.