because for some reason /news/db had become owned by root. None of the files in it, mind you, which I woulda noticed. Just the directory. Which is the more odd because the mount point in the dist structure is correctly permissioned, so this breakage should have been fixed at any of the times we've disted news-xfer in the last $SOMETIME (including this morning).
UI: There are files in /dist/etc that say, among other things, which directories do and don't get sent over, for each class of host (and, if so, whether or not to nuke files that aren't there in dist; this is called “static” (do nuke) vs. “dynamic” (don't nuke)). It seems not implausible that the entirety of /news/db might have been excluded entirely.
Also, some Usenet performance artists are splashing their poo on various walls, and making a clumsy attempt to joe-job Supernews with it.
Oh, I saw that. They threatened to make a froup I read “unusable” with spam floods or some such, but I didn't see anything else out of them after that. (They also cited their alleged earlier destruction of sci.crypt, which I haven't read in years, but given its density of cranks there are certain comments I could make along the lines of its not needing much help. (Which comments would not be entirely fair, but.))
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Date: 2007-08-14 08:13 pm (UTC)UI: There are files in /dist/etc that say, among other things, which directories do and don't get sent over, for each class of host (and, if so, whether or not to nuke files that aren't there in dist; this is called “static” (do nuke) vs. “dynamic” (don't nuke)). It seems not implausible that the entirety of /news/db might have been excluded entirely.
Also, some Usenet performance artists are splashing their poo on various walls, and making a clumsy attempt to joe-job Supernews with it.
Oh, I saw that. They threatened to make a froup I read “unusable” with spam floods or some such, but I didn't see anything else out of them after that. (They also cited their alleged earlier destruction of sci.crypt, which I haven't read in years, but given its density of cranks there are certain comments I could make along the lines of its not needing much help. (Which comments would not be entirely fair, but.))