More updates, changelog has it all

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index a6894d0..ac9fbb7 100644 (file)
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -10,12 +10,15 @@
    Reflected API changes to XMLWriter, added generator for RSS2 feed.
    Added generator for RSS1 feed.
  * crontab
-   Added line to scp rss2.xml to mussel.
-   Added line to scp rss1.xml to mussel.
+   Changed crontab to use launch-update-planet.sh
  * XMLParse2
    Added line to give personalised USER_AGENT.
  * Added RSS1Writer.py
    Output plugin for RSS1 files.
+ * Added launch-update-planet.sh
+   A shell script to wrap update-planet.
+ * sidebar.html
+   Updated sidebar.
 
 2004-02-28
 ==========

diff --git a/crontab b/crontab
index 698ca49..d480301 100644 (file)
--- a/crontab
+++ b/crontab
@@ -1,6 +1 @@
-*/5 *  * * *   cd $HOME/projects/planetucc/ && \
-                ./update-planet > /dev/null && \
-                               scp $HOME/projects/planetucc/planet.html [email protected]:public-html/index.html 2>/dev/null && \
-                               scp $HOME/projects/planetucc/rss2.xml [email protected]:public-html/rss2.xml 2>/dev/null && \
-                               scp $HOME/projects/planetucc/rss1.xml [email protected]:public-html/rss1.xml 2>/dev/null
-
+*/5 *  * * *   $HOME/projects/planetucc/launch-update-planet.sh 2>/dev/null

diff --git a/launch-update-planet.sh b/launch-update-planet.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..f6cd890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/launch-update-planet.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# launch-update-planet.sh
+#
+# A nice script to call update-planet and ship the files off to mussel.
+# This script is suitable for cron, and shell execution.
+#
+# (c) 2004, Davyd Madeley <[email protected]>
+
+OLDPWD=`pwd`
+cd $HOME/projects/planetucc/
+./update-planet
+scp planet.html [email protected]:public-html/index.html
+scp rss[12].xml [email protected]:public-html/
+cd $OLDPWD

diff --git a/sidebar.html b/sidebar.html
index 51df44e..a05da67 100644 (file)
--- a/sidebar.html
+++ b/sidebar.html
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
 <h2>About Planet UCC</h2>
 <p>
  Planet UCC is an aggregation of weblogs
- for UCC members. Planet UCC was written
- from scratch in
+ for members of the
+ <a href="http://www.ucc.asn.au/">University Computer Club</a> at the
+ <a href-"http://www.uwa.edu.au/">University of Western Australia</a>.<br />
+ Planet UCC was written from scratch in
  <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>
- with help from
- <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">the Gimp</a>
- and other tools.<br />
- Planet UCC now uses XMLParse2, a next generation
- parser that uses
- <a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/">feedparser</a>.
- This means that Planet UCC can now parse 9 different types of RSS and
- Atom (from Blogger).
+ and makes extensive use of Mark Pilgrim's
+ <a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/">feedparser</a>
+ module. Planet UCC tries to remain compatible with standards recommended by
+ the <a href="http://w3c.org">W3C</a>, however occasionally subscribed blogs
+ have HTML errors in them.<br />
  Those interested in the source can check it out from
  <a href="http://cvs.ucc.asn.au/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/projects/planetucc/">
  UCC CVS</a>.<br />
- <strong>Planet UCC can be considered BETA</strong>
+ Members who want to be syndicated onto the Planet UCC blogroll should email
+ the <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Planet Master</a>.
+</p>
+<h2>Syndication</h2>
+<p>
+ Planet UCC offers
+ <a href="rss1.xml">RSS 1.0</a>, and
+ <a href="rss2.xml">RSS 2.0</a>
+ feeds of this webpage.
 </p>
 <h2>Links</h2>
 <p>