Re: Spurious empty files in data/pages/

> 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).


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