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<p>For managing fortunes cookies and rather for frequently adding new
fortunes to the distributed files Joey needs some help.  Since it
would not be a good idea to add 50 cookies at once, since new cookies
are distributed via mail and HTTP, he usually maintains some private
source files from which a couple of fortune cookies get copied once or
twice a day.</p>

<p>This task is quite boring and can be automated.  In fact, when Joey
is not around at the proper time or has a too high load, no new
fortune cookies could be added to the official files.  Hence, in 2005
he developed two small utilities that help him maintain a constant
flow of new fortune cookies.</p>

<h3>fortunes-move</h3>

<p>This program moves <em>n</em> (default: 1) fortune cookies from the
top of the specified file to the destination file, randomises it and
recreates the source file.  This program needs to be called frequently
to add new fodder to the distributed fortune files.</p>

<p><a href="http://cvs.infodrom.org/scripts/fortunes-move">Source</a></p>

<h3>fortunes-runq</h3>

<p>This program is called via cron and acts as a frontend to the
program above.  It takes different parameters than the above like
"infodrom 3" which means to take 3 cookies from the infodrom source
file to the infodrom destination file.  This way, one call will
maintain all fortune queues and destination files.</p>

<p><a href="http://cvs.infodrom.org/scripts/fortunes-runq">Source</a></p>

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