NAME
mixmaster-update - Fetch new reliability stats and keyrings for
mixmaster
SYNOPSIS
mixmaster-update [--verbose] [--source=SOURCE] [--configfile=FILE]
[--destination=DIRECTORY]
mixmaster-update --list-sources
mixmaster-update --help
mixmaster-update --version
DESCRIPTION
mixmaster-update is a simple yet configurable script that downloads
latest remailer reliability statistics and keyrings for your mixmaster.
As having uptodate reliability statistics is imperative if you want to
make use of remailers it is recommended that you always update this
data should it be older that twelve or twentyfour hours and you intent
to use mixmaster.
mixmaster-update has several built in stats sources. You can view the
list of stats sources with the --list-sources parameter.
If you want to make use of another stats source which is not listed in
the output of --list-sources you can do so by setting the location of
mlist and others in your configuration file.
OPTIONS
--verbose
Print verbose output to standard output. May be given more than
once to increase verbosity.
--source=SOURCE
Use this built in stats source.
--configfile=FILE
Also parse the configuration file FILE.
--destination=DIRECTORY
Write output to DIRECTORY rather than the directory given in the
config file or ~/.Mix/.
--list-sources
List available stats sources.
--help
Print a brief help message and exit successfully.
--version
Print a version information and exit successfully.
FILES
/etc/mixmaster/update.conf
~/.Mix/update.conf
MIXMASTER_UPDATE_CONF environment
--configfile parameter
These files are parsed in this order. Later definitions overwrite older
ones. This config file defines proxy settings, where to write the
results to and which stats source to use
/etc/mixmaster/allpingers.txt
~/.Mix/allpingers.txt
MIXMASTER_ALLPINGERS environment
--allpingers parameter
These files are parsed in this order. Later definitions overwrite older
ones. The allpingers.txt is a list of all pingers.
FILEFORMAT
The update.conf configuration file for mixmaster-update is simple.
Lines with whitespace only are ignored as are lines that have the hash
our pound ("#") sign as their first non whitespace character.
Lines are always truncated at the first hash our pound ("#") sign.
Lines are pairs of keys and values seperated by a convenient amount of
whitespace. The key is case insensitive.
Allowed keys:
source
Use the builtin stats source with this name
destination
Write the downloaded data to this directory rather than ~/.Mix
proxy
Set proxies for different protocols. The value is split into two
parts: protocol and proxy URL. They are seperated by whitespace.
Example:
PROXY http http://proxy.example.com:8080/
PROXY ftp http://proxy.example.com:8080/
The format for allpingers.txt is simple too:
[example]
base = http://stats.example.net/
rlist = http://stats.example.net/rlist.txt
mlist = http://stats.example.net/mlist.txt
rlist2 = http://stats.example.net/rlist2.txt
mlist2 = http://stats.example.net/mlist2.txt
rlist_html = http://stats.example.net/rlist.html
mlist_html = http://stats.example.net/mlist.html
rlis.html = http://stats.example.net/rlis.html
mlis.html = http://stats.example.net/mlis.html
rchain_html = http://stats.example.net/mlis.html
pgpring = http://stats.example.net/pgp-all.asc
pgpring_rsa = http://stats.example.net/pgp-rsa.asc
mixring = http://stats.example.net/pubring.mix
type2list = http://stats.example.net/type2.list
The file may contain several such definitions.
ENVIRONMENT
MIXMASTER_UPDATE_CONF
MIXMASTER_ALLPINGERS
See the FILES section abobe.
HOME
Your homedirectory. Used for finding your user configuration file.
Also the default destination directory is $HOME/.Mix/
SEE ALSO
mixmaster(1)
BUGS
Please report them to the Debian Bug Tracking System as described at
"http://bugs.debian.org/" or use a tool like reportbug(1).
AUTHOR
Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
$Revision: 459 $ 2009-11-18