> Spammers are creating users. This is not a problem; You can use textchas against that. Or forbid newaccount action (if you can create users manually on the shell).
> However, > spammers are attempting to create pages and each > time this happens moin leaves an empty file in > data/pages/. > > The proliferation of these files is causing problems. > > It would be nice if moin only allowed a user to > attempt page creation when the user has permission, > but that's for the future. Right now I want to > know if there's a way I can prevent moin from creating > the empty files and plugging up the filesystem. See there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/6489ec33874d > Yes, I can get rid of the pages with 'moin maint cleanpage', > and I do. But I'd much rather not have the pages > created in the first place. Sure. :) It took a while to find the right place to fix that, that part of the code is rather twisted. > P.S. FYI. User creation also creates an empty file > in data/pages. This is an unnecessary use of filesystem > resource until and if the user actually puts something > on their user page. If that is still the case after applying the fix I linked above, please tell so (or file a bug on moinmo.in wiki). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
