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(Imported from ​help.mit.edu #394939.)

geofft:

I have a rough prototype of an auto-CNAME script in /mit/geofft/scripts/cname.sh. People should test it, make sure its logic is right, and laugh at my poor coding standards. I think it handles everything (modulo the special case for "DELETE", which it doesn't explicitly take care of at the moment). It doesn't actually do anything yet, just print the actions that it would take.

I'll make it do something (i.e., e-mail jweiss and dump the vhost into SVN) once I'm confident its existing logic is right. Oh, and recommendations for a decent regex or other pattern-matching check for scripts URLs? (Escaping the string and calling wget is certainly an option.)

Oh, and someone who doesn't "add consult" by default (especially someone with tcsh) should make sure the script can still reach qy.

geofft:

Yeah, so more people should test this so we can put it into production. Seriously, it takes like 2 minutes to try some valid data and make sure it produces correct output, and then try invalid data and make sure it errors. And maybe 5 more minutes to read through my source and find holes in it. (Although most holes don't matter, since the script executes as the user.)

andersk:

I fixed some bugs:

/mit/andersk/Public/scripts/geofft-cname.sh

We currently have several autoinstallers that aren't up-to-date with their upstream. We should keep them updated.

Some options include:

• making updating things easier, through technical measures and/or better documenting Wizard
• make this a non-issue by desupporting a bunch of autoinstallers (at the moment, this would probably mean gallery2 and phpbb, since MediaWiki? and WordPress? are uber-popular, and Git, Trac, TurboGears?, Django, and Rails probably all just ~symlink to Fedora packages)
• make this less of an issue by advertising two tiers of support, and relegating the things we barely care about and suck at updating to a lower tier of support

scripts-pony/scripts/templates/master.mak has a very inefficient Konami code detection easter egg that appends all keystrokes to a JavaScript? array. It should be rewritten to use the obvious 11-state Knuth–Morris–Pratt FSM.

This now also affects XVM, who copied this code.