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.TH FLOODMT "1" "2004\-01\-28" "floodmt" "User Commands"



.SH NAME



floodmt \- automated bulk comment posting to a Movable Type blog



.SH SYNOPSIS



.B floodmt

\fI[OPTION]\fR...



.SH DESCRIPTION



Given the URL of a Movable Type blog\'s comment posting CGI script, the

numeric ID of an entry on that blog, a list of proxies and a file of

messages,

.B floodmt

will spawn five threads. Each of these threads will attempt to post a random

message from the given messages to the given entry on the given blog as

quickly as possible. The user can change how many post attempts each thread

makes.



This is be useful for testing your own blog to see how well its anti\-spam

measures work, and whether the server can handle a large number of requests;

some servers have been known to reach a load average of more than 20 while

under testing and it is possible for a crapflood attempt to have an identical

effect to a DDoS attack.



.SH OPTIONS



.PP



.TP

.BI \-c " URL"

Use

.I URL

as the comment posting CGI script. (The filename of this CGI script

will likely be similar to \'mt\-comments.cgi'.)



.TP

.BI \-d " URL"

Use

.I URL

as the directory from which to grab the textual translations of

the OCR security codes. Some Movable Type users are dumb enough to make

the contents of this directory accessible over the Web.



.TP

.BI \-e " NUM"

Post to the entry with the ID

.I NUM.



.TP

.BI \-f " FILE"

Read a series of messages from

.I FILE.



.TP

.BI \-h

Display program information and usage help.



.TP

.BI \-l

Only read in a list of proxies from the given file, list them on standard

output one per line and exit.



.TP

.BI \-n " NUM"

Each of the five threads will attempt to post a message

.I NUM

times to the given entry.



.TP

.BI \-o

Turn on forced preview avoidance. If the blog requires you to preview,

FloodMT will fake previewing.



.TP

.BI \-p " FILE"

Read a list of proxies, one per line, from

.I FILE.

If the file has other unwanted data then FloodMT will try to extract the

proxies regardless. This may slow down reading a list of proxies from files

which have a lot of irrelevant data by a small amount.



.TP

.BI \-s " URL"

Use

.I URL

as the security code CGI script.



.TP

.BI \-t " NUM"

Each thread will wait

.I NUM

seconds between each post attempt.



.TP

.BI \-u

Turn on security code circumvention. If this is turned on, FloodMT will

look in the given security code directory for textual translations of the

OCR images.



.SH DIAGNOSTICS



.PP



.TP

.BI 0

.B FloodMT

ran successfully.



.TP

.BI 1

Something went wrong while FloodMT was sleeping.



.TP

.BI 2

An error occurred when opening the message file.



.TP

.BI 3

An invalid option was given or an argument was not given to an option which

required it. (In other words, something wasn\'t right about the options you

gave to FloodMT.)



.TP

.BI 4

The number of posts you requested wasn\'t an integer.



.TP

.BI 5

An error occurred when opening the proxy file.



.TP

.BI 6

No messages could be read from the messages file.



.TP

.BI 7

The URL of the comment posting script to use wasn\'t given.



.TP

.BI 8

No entry ID to post to was given.



.TP

.BI 9

The time you gave for each thread to wait between posts wasn\'t an integer.



.TP

.BI 10

No messages file was given.



.TP

.BI 11

No proxy file was given.



.SH EXAMPLE



.nf

$ python floodmt-1.3.2.py \-c http://www.mmdc.net/cgi\-bin/mt/mt\-comments.cgi \-e 3747 \-f /usr/share/games/fortune/linuxcookie \-p proxyfile.txt

.fi



Attempt to flood entry 3747 of the blog with comment posting CGI URL http://www.mmdc.net/cgi\-bin/mt/mt\-comments.cgi with random Linux kernel mailing list fortune cookies.



.SH BUGS



There are almost certainly bugs but if we knew where they where then we\'d have

gotten rid of them.



.SH AUTHORS



FloodMT itself is written by wrt, rkz and Dessimat0r.



.SH COPYRIGHT



FloodMT and this manual page are licensed under the BSD license.



.SH SEE ALSO



.BR python (1)