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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
2 | .\". | |
3 | .\" Manual for TrIPE services | |
4 | .\" | |
5 | .\" (c) 2008 Straylight/Edgeware | |
6 | .\" | |
7 | . | |
8 | .\"----- Licensing notice --------------------------------------------------- | |
9 | .\" | |
10 | .\" This file is part of Trivial IP Encryption (TrIPE). | |
11 | .\" | |
12 | .\" TrIPE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
13 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
14 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
15 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
16 | .\" | |
17 | .\" TrIPE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
18 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
19 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
20 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
21 | .\" | |
22 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
23 | .\" along with TrIPE; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, | |
24 | .\" Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | |
25 | . | |
26 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
27 | .so ../defs.man.in \"@@@PRE@@@ | |
28 | . | |
29 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
0647ba7c | 30 | .TH tripe-service 7tripe "8 January 2007" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption" |
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31 | . |
32 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
33 | .SH "NAME" | |
34 | . | |
35 | tripe-service \- common information about tripe service providers | |
36 | . | |
37 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
38 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" | |
39 | . | |
40 | .I program | |
41 | .RB [ \-a | |
42 | .IR socket ] | |
43 | .RB [ \-d | |
44 | .IR dir ] | |
45 | .RB [ \-\-daemon ] | |
46 | .RB [ \-\-startup ] | |
47 | .PP | |
48 | .nf | |
49 | .B HELP | |
50 | .B QUIT | |
51 | .fi | |
52 | . | |
53 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
54 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" | |
55 | . | |
56 | The | |
57 | .BR tripe (8) | |
58 | server allows external programs to provide useful services through its | |
59 | administration interface, as described in | |
60 | .BR tripe-admin (5). | |
61 | This manual page describes standard conventions for such service | |
62 | providers. | |
63 | .PP | |
64 | Service providers are programs; they are usually invoked automatically | |
65 | by | |
66 | .BR tripe 's | |
67 | startup script. | |
68 | .SS "Command line" | |
69 | Service providers may accept non-option command-line arguments, but it | |
70 | should always be possible to start the provider without any. | |
71 | .PP | |
72 | All service providers recognize the following options. | |
73 | .TP | |
74 | .B "\-h, \-\-help" | |
75 | Print a help message describing the service provider's command line | |
76 | usage and suchlike to standard output, and exit with status 0. | |
77 | .TP | |
78 | .B "\-\-version" | |
79 | Print the service provider's version number to standard output, and exit | |
80 | with status 0. | |
81 | .TP | |
82 | .BI "\-a, \-\-admin-socket=" socket | |
83 | Connect to the named administration | |
84 | .IR socket . | |
85 | The default socket is given by the environment variable | |
86 | .BR TRIPESOCK ; | |
87 | if that's not defined either, a default default of | |
88 | .B $socketdir/tripesock | |
89 | is used. | |
90 | .TP | |
91 | .BI "\-d, \-\-directory=" dir | |
92 | Make | |
93 | .I dir | |
94 | the current directory, before doing anything else. Note that all the | |
95 | other filenames (e.g., the log output file) are relative to this | |
96 | directory. The default directory, if this option is not specified, is | |
97 | taken from the environment variable | |
98 | .BR TRIPEDIR ; | |
99 | if that's not defined either, a default default of | |
100 | .B $configdir | |
101 | is used. | |
102 | .TP | |
103 | .B "\-\-daemon" | |
104 | Run the service provider in the background, as a daemon, after starting | |
105 | up. | |
106 | .TP | |
107 | .B "\-\-startup" | |
108 | Inform the service provider that it is being run as part of | |
109 | .BR tripe 's | |
110 | startup process, and that it should therefore do any special things | |
111 | which are appropriate. | |
112 | .PP | |
113 | The values of | |
114 | .B $socketdir | |
115 | and | |
116 | .B $configdir | |
117 | can be obtained from | |
118 | .BR pkg-config (1), | |
119 | e.g., | |
120 | .VS | |
121 | pkg-config --variable=socketdir tripe | |
122 | .VE | |
123 | .SS "Documentation" | |
124 | Manual pages for | |
125 | .B tripe | |
126 | services are in section 7 of the manual, for want of somewhere better to | |
127 | put them. The manual pages are divided into sections, as usual: | |
128 | .TP | |
129 | .B NAME | |
130 | The name of the service provider, and any services it provides, with a | |
131 | one-line description. | |
132 | .TP | |
133 | .B SYNOPSIS | |
134 | A very brief summary of the command-line syntax of the service provider, | |
135 | a blank line, and one-line summaries of the commands provided by each | |
136 | service. | |
137 | .TP | |
138 | .B DESCRIPTION | |
139 | A general description of the service(s) provided, and any unusual | |
140 | command-line options recognized by the service provider, followed by a | |
141 | description of the commands provided by each service. | |
142 | .SS "Commands" | |
143 | All services must provide the following simple commands (available by | |
144 | sending | |
145 | .IP | |
146 | .B SVCSUBMIT | |
147 | .I service | |
148 | .I command | |
149 | .IR args ... | |
150 | .PP | |
151 | to the server). | |
152 | .TP | |
153 | .B HELP | |
154 | Write an | |
155 | .B INFO | |
156 | line for each command recognized by the service, in the format used by | |
157 | the | |
158 | .B tripe | |
159 | .B HELP | |
160 | command. | |
161 | .TP | |
162 | .B QUIT | |
163 | Send a warning of the form | |
164 | .RS | |
165 | .IP | |
166 | .B WARN | |
167 | .B USER | |
168 | .I service | |
169 | .B svc-quit | |
170 | .B user-request | |
171 | .PP | |
172 | (using the | |
173 | .B WARN | |
174 | command) and terminate the service-provider program. | |
175 | . | |
176 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
177 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
178 | . | |
179 | .BR tripe (8), | |
180 | .BR tripe\-admin (5). | |
181 | . | |
182 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
183 | .SH "AUTHOR" | |
184 | . | |
185 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> | |
186 | . | |
187 | .\"----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------- |