I'm not sure, but
it looks like the apostrophies get in the way.
try:
awk -f":" '/'$username'/ { print $6 }' passwd.bak >output

I hope that works.

--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, renuka prasad
<renukaprasadtg@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>    I need a help from u.I'm getting the home directory
> from  passwd.bak file.I need to find the disk usage of
> that particular user.I'm getting output if i directly
> substitue variable $username with exact username.But
> i'm not getting output when i use in shell script.The
> contents is as follows:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Script for displaying diskusage based on user name
> # Only username to be supplied by user
> echo "\n Please enter the username:\c"
> read username
> awk -F":" '/$username/ { print $6 }' passwd.bak >
> output
> echo " Home Directory Of $username "
> cat output
> echo " Disk Usage in KB:"
> sudo du -sk < output
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  I really appreciate  any kind of help on this.Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Prasad
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
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>

Hi All,

    I need a help from u.I'm getting the home directory
from  passwd.bak file.I need to find the disk usage of
that particular user.I'm getting output if i directly
substitue variable $username with exact username.But
i'm not getting output when i use in shell script.The
contents is as follows:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Script for displaying diskusage based on user name
# Only username to be supplied by user
echo "\n Please enter the username:\c"
read username
awk -F":" '/$username/ { print $6 }' passwd.bak >
output
echo " Home Directory Of $username "
cat output
echo " Disk Usage in KB:"
sudo du -sk < output
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  I really appreciate  any kind of help on this.Thanks
in advance.

Regards,
Prasad




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Can someone kindly show how to print each line of a file to bash
variable from a awk command?

Super Thanks!,
JB

Me, use it almost everyday though only simple ones...
Still trying to absorb all the use of it.

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    Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:09:34 -0000
    From: "sabre 2/3 tiger" <s-ml3@...>
Subject: Hi new and old users of gawk ...

After some ages, well almost 10 years, I've just spent an hour writing
another short gawk script to convert a waypoints GPX file to a track
GPX file. It was fun programming in awk again. An additional hour was
spent earlier looking/installing/reading newer gawk 3.1.3 replacing my
old gawk 2.15. ;-)

Then I wondered whether there are many users of gawk around still. So
here I am.

BTW, I do much less scripting now, as usually happens when you climb
up the management chain. :-(

regards, sabre23t =^.^=







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    Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:37:52 -0600
    From: "Stout, Danny" <danny.stout@...>
Subject: RE: Hi new and old users of gawk ...

Use AWK (gawk) all the time... is a mainstay in my utilities spread
across Windows, Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS platforms.

Best to you,
dan

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another short gawk script to convert a waypoints GPX file to a track
GPX file. It was fun programming in awk again. An additional hour was
spent earlier looking/installing/reading newer gawk 3.1.3 replacing my
old gawk 2.15. ;-)

Then I wondered whether there are many users of gawk around still. So
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After some ages, well almost 10 years, I've just spent an hour writing
another short gawk script to convert a waypoints GPX file to a track
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After some ages, well almost 10 years, I've just spent an hour writing
another short gawk script to convert a waypoints GPX file to a track
GPX file. It was fun programming in awk again. An additional hour was
spent earlier looking/installing/reading newer gawk 3.1.3 replacing my
old gawk 2.15. ;-)

Then I wondered whether there are many users of gawk around still. So
here I am.

BTW, I do much less scripting now, as usually happens when you climb
up the management chain. :-(

regards, sabre23t =^.^=

Thanks, Adam!

It solved my problem!

Regards,

Rodrigo


--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <onzanews@e...> wrote:
> hello Rodrigo,
> try
> $ awk 'BEGIN{ print sprintf("%05d, %06.2f", 23, 4.5) }'
> 00023, 004.50
>
> the '6' in "%06.2f" is the minimum width of the outputed float.
> (including the decimal point and the fraction part.)
> EG:
> $ awk 'BEGIN{ print length(sprintf("%06.2f", 4.5)) }'
> 6
>
> the 2 in "%06.2f" is the minimum width of the fraction part.
> EGs:
> pattern  output
> "%06.2f" 004.50
> "%06.3f" 04.500
> "%06.4f" 4.5000
> "%06.5f" 4.50000
> "%06.6f" 4.500000
>
> hope this helps
> +m
> za (Adam Onza)
>
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Rodrigo Hjort"
> <rodrigo_hjort@y...> wrote:
> > Hi, AWK users!
> >
> > When using sprintf() to format float numbers with left padding zeroes,
> > it doesn't work. For example, the output desired below should be
> > "00023, 004.50".
> >
> > $ awk 'BEGIN{ print sprintf("%05d, %03.2f", 23, 4.5) }'
> > 00023, 4.50
> >
> > Does anyone ever had this problem? Should this be an AWK bug?
> > These codes were performed on mawk version 1.3.3-11.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rodrigo Hjort
> >
> > http://rhjort.cjb.net/
> >
> > Linux User #348191 (http://counter.li.org)

hello Rodrigo,
try
$ awk 'BEGIN{ print sprintf("%05d, %06.2f", 23, 4.5) }'
00023, 004.50

the '6' in "%06.2f" is the minimum width of the outputed float.
(including the decimal point and the fraction part.)
EG:
$ awk 'BEGIN{ print length(sprintf("%06.2f", 4.5)) }'
6

the 2 in "%06.2f" is the minimum width of the fraction part.
EGs:
pattern  output
"%06.2f" 004.50
"%06.3f" 04.500
"%06.4f" 4.5000
"%06.5f" 4.50000
"%06.6f" 4.500000

hope this helps
+m
za (Adam Onza)

--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Rodrigo Hjort"
<rodrigo_hjort@y...> wrote:
> Hi, AWK users!
>
> When using sprintf() to format float numbers with left padding zeroes,
> it doesn't work. For example, the output desired below should be
> "00023, 004.50".
>
> $ awk 'BEGIN{ print sprintf("%05d, %03.2f", 23, 4.5) }'
> 00023, 4.50
>
> Does anyone ever had this problem? Should this be an AWK bug?
> These codes were performed on mawk version 1.3.3-11.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo Hjort
>
> http://rhjort.cjb.net/
>
> Linux User #348191 (http://counter.li.org)

Hi, AWK users!

When using sprintf() to format float numbers with left padding zeroes,
it doesn't work. For example, the output desired below should be
"00023, 004.50".

$ awk 'BEGIN{ print sprintf("%05d, %03.2f", 23, 4.5) }'
00023, 4.50

Does anyone ever had this problem? Should this be an AWK bug?
These codes were performed on mawk version 1.3.3-11.

Best regards,

Rodrigo Hjort

http://rhjort.cjb.net/

Linux User #348191 (http://counter.li.org)

The simplest way to answer your question, is that the first statement:
tail -f FILENAME | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'

the output is only on the display and nothing is piped to gawk when
tail exits because that's the way tail works with the -f option.

When you run tail with a numeric argument like -100 as you did in:
tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'

the output is immediately piped to gawk, because that's the way tail
works with a numeric argument. With the -f option, tail displays the
tip of the file, then waits for input, then displays the new tip, then
waits for input, and so on. When it exits, there is no output. Nothing
is piped to Gawk.

So, the easy way to do what you want is to runt these two (identical)
commands simmultaniously, in the same terminal:
tail -f logfile > outfile &
tail -f logfile

Now if you type:
echo foo
or
echo 1
echo 2
echo 3
...
you'll get the output the way you want it.
--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> Actually, I made a mistake.
> If you type > instead of >> in
> tail -f temp >> outfile &
> (eg: tail -f temp > outfile &)
>
> The output in the first terminal matches
> cat outfile
>
> The point is, the out put from tail -f is static, but don't forget it
> redraws superfast every time you type echo foo on the other terminal.
> In other words if the input is 'foo', every time you type echo on the
> one terminal, the output of tail increases like this.
> foo         first echo
> foo foo     second echo
> foo foo foo third echo
>
> Because of this behaviour, | won't work when you use -f with tail,
> because there is nothing sent to the pipe.
>
> So, I guess to do what you want, you don't really need gawk anyway,
> bash will do the job if you run tail in the background and in the
> foreground.
>
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> > Try this:
> > I made a file like this called temp
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> > Then in one terminal I ran
> > tail -f temp >> outfile &
> >
> > Then in the same terminal I ran your code without the gawk statment
> > (the output from tail never gets there, so you don't need it. The
> > output is already been ouput on the terminal... there's nothing to
> > pipe to gawk):
> > tail -f temp
> >
> > Now, in a second terminal, I typed:
> > echo 5 >> temp
> >
> > And it showed up in the first terminal, of course.
> > In the second terminal, I typed:
> > cat outfile
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> > 5
> >
> > There it is, but...
> > If you then type:
> > echo 6
> >
> > The output file now contains
> > cat outfile
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> > 5
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> > 5
> > 6
> >
> > See what I mean?
> > Gawk can do what you want to do, but not exactly. Not easily in a few
> > lines anyway.
> > Maybe Python, or Perl?
> > I don't know...
> > --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> > > The reason is because tail, doesn't send it's output to gawk
until it
> > > finishes running. When you use -f, tail reads the file, then sits at
> > > the end of it waiting for more input, whenever some comes along, it
> > > displays it as you saw. However, when the program ends, that's
it, it
> > > just ends, so it pipes nothing into your file, which is verified by
> > > your file being empty. When you run list with -100, it reads
down the
> > > file, THEN it sends to the pipe as tail exits. Therefore, you
can read
> > > the file and see what you just echoed. But if you type, echo foo
> > > again, you won't see it in the outfile. That's cos' tails not
running.
> > > See what I mean. Its a cache 22.
> > > What you should do is just run the program for a period of time,
then
> > > stop it with ctrl-c, which outputs what you've collected to
'outfile',
> > > and start the program again. That way, outfile has all the new
entries
> > > for x hours.
> > > Cheers
> > > Jef
> > > --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "luknowak23" <luknowak23@y...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a problem with gawk, and I though you guys might help.
> > > > Here's the situation:
> > > >
> > > > I have an active logfile, which receives some lines from time to
> time.
> > > > I do:
> > > > tail -f logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> > > >
> > > > When I type from another console:
> > > > echo foo >> logfile
> > > >
> > > > I can see output on the screen, but nothing comes into the
> "outfile",
> > > > even though it gets created (zero length).
> > > >
> > > > When I run the same gawk script through:
> > > > tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> > > >
> > > > everything is fine (there is output on the screen, and in the
> > > > "outfile")
> > > >
> > > > I really do not know what is going on, so please help me if
you can.
> > > > Many thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Lukasz

Actually, I made a mistake.
If you type > instead of >> in
tail -f temp >> outfile &
(eg: tail -f temp > outfile &)

The output in the first terminal matches
cat outfile

The point is, the out put from tail -f is static, but don't forget it
redraws superfast every time you type echo foo on the other terminal.
In other words if the input is 'foo', every time you type echo on the
one terminal, the output of tail increases like this.
foo         first echo
foo foo     second echo
foo foo foo third echo

Because of this behaviour, | won't work when you use -f with tail,
because there is nothing sent to the pipe.

So, I guess to do what you want, you don't really need gawk anyway,
bash will do the job if you run tail in the background and in the
foreground.

--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> Try this:
> I made a file like this called temp
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> Then in one terminal I ran
> tail -f temp >> outfile &
>
> Then in the same terminal I ran your code without the gawk statment
> (the output from tail never gets there, so you don't need it. The
> output is already been ouput on the terminal... there's nothing to
> pipe to gawk):
> tail -f temp
>
> Now, in a second terminal, I typed:
> echo 5 >> temp
>
> And it showed up in the first terminal, of course.
> In the second terminal, I typed:
> cat outfile
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
>
> There it is, but...
> If you then type:
> echo 6
>
> The output file now contains
> cat outfile
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
>
> See what I mean?
> Gawk can do what you want to do, but not exactly. Not easily in a few
> lines anyway.
> Maybe Python, or Perl?
> I don't know...
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> > The reason is because tail, doesn't send it's output to gawk until it
> > finishes running. When you use -f, tail reads the file, then sits at
> > the end of it waiting for more input, whenever some comes along, it
> > displays it as you saw. However, when the program ends, that's it, it
> > just ends, so it pipes nothing into your file, which is verified by
> > your file being empty. When you run list with -100, it reads down the
> > file, THEN it sends to the pipe as tail exits. Therefore, you can read
> > the file and see what you just echoed. But if you type, echo foo
> > again, you won't see it in the outfile. That's cos' tails not running.
> > See what I mean. Its a cache 22.
> > What you should do is just run the program for a period of time, then
> > stop it with ctrl-c, which outputs what you've collected to 'outfile',
> > and start the program again. That way, outfile has all the new entries
> > for x hours.
> > Cheers
> > Jef
> > --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "luknowak23" <luknowak23@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a problem with gawk, and I though you guys might help.
> > > Here's the situation:
> > >
> > > I have an active logfile, which receives some lines from time to
time.
> > > I do:
> > > tail -f logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> > >
> > > When I type from another console:
> > > echo foo >> logfile
> > >
> > > I can see output on the screen, but nothing comes into the
"outfile",
> > > even though it gets created (zero length).
> > >
> > > When I run the same gawk script through:
> > > tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> > >
> > > everything is fine (there is output on the screen, and in the
> > > "outfile")
> > >
> > > I really do not know what is going on, so please help me if you can.
> > > Many thanks.
> > >
> > > Lukasz

Try this:
I made a file like this called temp
1
2
3
4
Then in one terminal I ran
tail -f temp >> outfile &

Then in the same terminal I ran your code without the gawk statment
(the output from tail never gets there, so you don't need it. The
output is already been ouput on the terminal... there's nothing to
pipe to gawk):
tail -f temp

Now, in a second terminal, I typed:
echo 5 >> temp

And it showed up in the first terminal, of course.
In the second terminal, I typed:
cat outfile
1
2
3
4
5

There it is, but...
If you then type:
echo 6

The output file now contains
cat outfile
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
6

See what I mean?
Gawk can do what you want to do, but not exactly. Not easily in a few
lines anyway.
Maybe Python, or Perl?
I don't know...
--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Jef" <jb2702000@y...> wrote:
> The reason is because tail, doesn't send it's output to gawk until it
> finishes running. When you use -f, tail reads the file, then sits at
> the end of it waiting for more input, whenever some comes along, it
> displays it as you saw. However, when the program ends, that's it, it
> just ends, so it pipes nothing into your file, which is verified by
> your file being empty. When you run list with -100, it reads down the
> file, THEN it sends to the pipe as tail exits. Therefore, you can read
> the file and see what you just echoed. But if you type, echo foo
> again, you won't see it in the outfile. That's cos' tails not running.
> See what I mean. Its a cache 22.
> What you should do is just run the program for a period of time, then
> stop it with ctrl-c, which outputs what you've collected to 'outfile',
> and start the program again. That way, outfile has all the new entries
> for x hours.
> Cheers
> Jef
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "luknowak23" <luknowak23@y...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with gawk, and I though you guys might help.
> > Here's the situation:
> >
> > I have an active logfile, which receives some lines from time to time.
> > I do:
> > tail -f logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> >
> > When I type from another console:
> > echo foo >> logfile
> >
> > I can see output on the screen, but nothing comes into the "outfile",
> > even though it gets created (zero length).
> >
> > When I run the same gawk script through:
> > tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
> >
> > everything is fine (there is output on the screen, and in the
> > "outfile")
> >
> > I really do not know what is going on, so please help me if you can.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Lukasz

The reason is because tail, doesn't send it's output to gawk until it
finishes running. When you use -f, tail reads the file, then sits at
the end of it waiting for more input, whenever some comes along, it
displays it as you saw. However, when the program ends, that's it, it
just ends, so it pipes nothing into your file, which is verified by
your file being empty. When you run list with -100, it reads down the
file, THEN it sends to the pipe as tail exits. Therefore, you can read
the file and see what you just echoed. But if you type, echo foo
again, you won't see it in the outfile. That's cos' tails not running.
See what I mean. Its a cache 22.
What you should do is just run the program for a period of time, then
stop it with ctrl-c, which outputs what you've collected to 'outfile',
and start the program again. That way, outfile has all the new entries
for x hours.
Cheers
Jef
--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "luknowak23" <luknowak23@y...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with gawk, and I though you guys might help.
> Here's the situation:
>
> I have an active logfile, which receives some lines from time to time.
> I do:
> tail -f logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
>
> When I type from another console:
> echo foo >> logfile
>
> I can see output on the screen, but nothing comes into the "outfile",
> even though it gets created (zero length).
>
> When I run the same gawk script through:
> tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'
>
> everything is fine (there is output on the screen, and in the
> "outfile")
>
> I really do not know what is going on, so please help me if you can.
> Many thanks.
>
> Lukasz

When I did it like this:
tail Bookmarks.html | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile" }

It worked fine. The outfile was created and the last ten bookmarks
were there. But I don't know what the *&@# I'm doing so beware...
Cheers! Jef \ ( ^o^ ) /

Touche' Daniel
--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Ajoy" <dajoy@o...> wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2004 at 2:24, Adam wrote:
>
> > function or(x,y)
> > {
> >   if (x == 1 || y == 1 )
> >     return 1;  else return 0;
> > }
> >
>
> This could be:
>
> function or(x,y) { return x == 1 || y == 1 }
>
>
> Daniel

I guess I saw the same paper you did at:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~loui/sigplan
I was suprised that his students using Gawk faired better than those
using C++. There is a PDF that you can download about the project, but
I havn't done so. It's at:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=242903.242908
Maybe you can find some code there. I'm a newbie to gawk as well, so I
can't tell you much more than that. I found the information above on
Google.
--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <onzanews@e...> wrote:
>
> hello, I'm new to this group.
> I've read about using Awk for AI, but there are no sites with source
> code. has anyone seen or written such a thing?

Hi,

I have a problem with gawk, and I though you guys might help.
Here's the situation:

I have an active logfile, which receives some lines from time to time.
I do:
tail -f logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'

When I type from another console:
echo foo >> logfile

I can see output on the screen, but nothing comes into the "outfile",
even though it gets created (zero length).

When I run the same gawk script through:
tail -100 logfile | gawk '{ print $0 > "outfile"; print $0; }'

everything is fine (there is output on the screen, and in the
"outfile")

I really do not know what is going on, so please help me if you can.
Many thanks.

Lukasz

Hi, I'm new to the group and just saying hello. I use RH9 on a Dell
and discovered Gawk in the info files. I've been using it a little,
and it's made me realize how much I need to learn about sys admin. I'm
gonna upgrade to Fedora or Slackware in the next coupla weeks. I'm
really interested to learn about what real sys admins do, and how they
use gawk to make it easier. Nuf' bout me. Thanks for having me here.

Starting today all new members will be moderated by default.  If/When
he/she posts for the first time, then he/she will gain full posting
privileges after I have reviewed the message and granted posting access.

This should have been implemented months ago, but I had hoped to avoid
this measure.  My apologies to all current members.

May i know who are you?

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once on another group, I found a certain virus had been spamming the
list. I didn't have it, but I investigated the e-mail text (on the
website.) and discovered it's identity. it was while the owner was on
vacation too, I think... it was kinda sad, because they resigned a
short time after. I think it was because of that. I TRIED very hard to
be polite when I told them about it... :(

my point is, that maybe the spams are being sent by someone other than
the members. (maybe some of them are even innocent.) if that virus
could fake all those emails from members, then so could a spammer.
(with the right tools and maybe zombies.)

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were, or what was responsable for sending them. so I really shouldn't
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--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, nitallica@y... wrote:
>
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Albert Bickford"
> <bickford@v...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Who is the moderator of this list and has control over it?  Is
> there
> > anything that can be done to prevent SPAM postings such as the ones
> we've
> > been getting recently?  If this continues, the list will be ruined.
>  I, for
> > one, will remove my name from the list if the SPAM traffic
> incrreases, and I
> > suspect that others will too.
>
>
> I am the owner of this group and only moderator.  My apologies for the
> delayed deletion, banning, and reporting of the spammer as I have been
> on holiday and did not have internet access.
>
>
> >
> > As to what can be done: Can the list be set to only accept postings
> from
> > members of the list?
>
>
> It is already set this way.
>
>
> > If necessary, could all postings be moderated, so only
> > one person has to deal with the junk that comes through?
> >
>
>
> The problem is that I do not get online as much as I'd like which
> would cause even good/valid messages to sit until I can get to them.
>
>
>
> > If no one speaks up as moderator, should we see if one of those of
> us who
> > are actively reading it could be made the moderator?
>
>
> I am currently looking for someone to help moderate this list.  Any
> who are interested please feel free to contact me.

--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "d_godfrey2000" <don-g@n...> wrote:
>
> I'd also like to find a way to stop the spam that is being sent
> through this group.
> From checking the members list, it appears no one is listed as the
> moderator.
> I'd be willing to spend some time helping keep this group running for
> the benefit of members, but I've never acted as a moderator for an on-
> line group.
> The first question I have is 'what are all of the tasks of a
> moderator'?


It would depend on what abilities are set for you.  This would include
something like deleting messages, approving new messages (if we switch
to a moderated forum), deleting/banning members, ...


> Secondly, addressing the issue of the spam we are getting, it seems
> it would be beneficial to allow outsiders to post their legit
> questions - & often the questions are time-sensitive, so if we force
> all posters to join, someone will need to be able to 'accept
> membership' in a timely manner.
> What if we had co-moderators? Having 2 or 3 co-moderators may reduce
> problems with timeliness. Is anyone willing to act as co-moderator
> with me?
>
> --- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Albert Bickford"
> <bickford@v...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Who is the moderator of this list and has control over it?  Is
> there
> > anything that can be done to prevent SPAM postings such as the ones
> we've
> > been getting recently?  If this continues, the list will be
> ruined.  I, for
> > one, will remove my name from the list if the SPAM traffic
> incrreases, and I
> > suspect that others will too.
> >
> > As to what can be done: Can the list be set to only accept postings
> from
> > members of the list?  If necessary, could all postings be
> moderated, so only
> > one person has to deal with the junk that comes through?
> >
> > If no one speaks up as moderator, should we see if one of those of
> us who
> > are actively reading it could be made the moderator?
> >
> > --Albert
> >
> > Albert Bickford

--- In geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com, "Albert Bickford"
<bickford@v...> wrote:
>
>
> Question:
>
> Who is the moderator of this list and has control over it?  Is
there
> anything that can be done to prevent SPAM postings such as the ones
we've
> been getting recently?  If this continues, the list will be ruined.
  I, for
> one, will remove my name from the list if the SPAM traffic
incrreases, and I
> suspect that others will too.


I am the owner of this group and only moderator.  My apologies for the
delayed deletion, banning, and reporting of the spammer as I have been
on holiday and did not have internet access.


>
> As to what can be done: Can the list be set to only accept postings
from
> members of the list?


It is already set this way.


> If necessary, could all postings be moderated, so only
> one person has to deal with the junk that comes through?
>


The problem is that I do not get online as much as I'd like which
would cause even good/valid messages to sit until I can get to them.



> If no one speaks up as moderator, should we see if one of those of
us who
> are actively reading it could be made the moderator?


I am currently looking for someone to help moderate this list.  Any
who are interested please feel free to contact me.

On 13 Nov 2004 at 2:24, Adam wrote:

> function or(x,y)
> {
>   if (x == 1 || y == 1 )
>     return 1;  else return 0;
> }
>

This could be:

function or(x,y) { return x == 1 || y == 1 }


Daniel