| 1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
| 2 | .\". |
| 3 | .\" Manual for the administration client |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 25 | . |
| 26 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 27 | .so ../defs.man.in \" @@@PRE@@@ |
| 28 | . |
| 29 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 30 | .TH tripectl 1 "19 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption" |
| 31 | . |
| 32 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 33 | .SH "NAME" |
| 34 | . |
| 35 | tripectl \- simple client for TrIPE |
| 36 | . |
| 37 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 38 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| 39 | . |
| 40 | .B tripectl |
| 41 | .RB [ \-w ] |
| 42 | .RB [ \-\fIoptions ] |
| 43 | .RI [ command |
| 44 | .RI [ args ]...] |
| 45 | .br |
| 46 | .B tripectl |
| 47 | .RB [ \-Dl ] |
| 48 | .RB [ \-f |
| 49 | .IR file ] |
| 50 | .RB [ \-\fIoptions ] |
| 51 | .PP |
| 52 | Options: |
| 53 | .br |
| 54 | \& |
| 55 | .RB [ \-s ] |
| 56 | .RB [ \-d |
| 57 | .IR dir ] |
| 58 | .RB [ \-a |
| 59 | .IR socket ] |
| 60 | .RB [ \-P |
| 61 | .IR pidfile ] |
| 62 | .br |
| 63 | \& |
| 64 | .RB [ \-p |
| 65 | .IR path ] |
| 66 | .RB [ \-S |
| 67 | .IB arg , arg ,\fR...] |
| 68 | . |
| 69 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 70 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| 71 | . |
| 72 | The |
| 73 | .B tripectl |
| 74 | program is a simple client which can be used, either interactively or |
| 75 | from a script, to send commands to and read status information from a |
| 76 | running |
| 77 | .BR tripe (8) |
| 78 | server. It can also be used to start |
| 79 | .BR tripe (8), |
| 80 | passing appropriate arguments and capturing logging information. |
| 81 | .SS "Command-line options" |
| 82 | .TP |
| 83 | .B "\-h, \-\-help" |
| 84 | Writes a brief description of the command-line options available to |
| 85 | standard output and exits with status 0. |
| 86 | .TP |
| 87 | .B "\-v, \-\-version" |
| 88 | Writes tripe's version number to standard output and exits with status |
| 89 | 0. |
| 90 | .TP |
| 91 | .B "\-u, \-\-usage" |
| 92 | Writes a brief usage summary to standard output and exits with status 0. |
| 93 | .TP |
| 94 | .B "\-D, \-\-daemon" |
| 95 | Makes |
| 96 | .B tripectl |
| 97 | disassociate from the terminal and become a background process after |
| 98 | connecting to the server. |
| 99 | .TP |
| 100 | .BI "\-d, \-\-directory=" dir |
| 101 | Make |
| 102 | .I dir |
| 103 | the current directory, before doing anything else. Note that all the |
| 104 | other filenames (e.g., the log output file) are relative to this |
| 105 | directory. The default directory, if this option is not specified, is |
| 106 | taken from the environment variable |
| 107 | .BR TRIPEDIR ; |
| 108 | if that's not defined either, a default default of |
| 109 | .B "*(/c" |
| 110 | is used. |
| 111 | .TP |
| 112 | .BI "\-a, \-\-admin-socket=" socket |
| 113 | If connecting to a running server, connect to the socket named |
| 114 | .IR socket ; |
| 115 | if running a new server, instruct it to listen for admin |
| 116 | connections on |
| 117 | .IR socket . |
| 118 | The default socket, if this option is not specified, is taken from the |
| 119 | environment variable |
| 120 | .BR TRIPESOCK ; |
| 121 | if that's not defined either, a default default of |
| 122 | .B "*(/s/tripesock" |
| 123 | is used. |
| 124 | .TP |
| 125 | .BI "\-P, \-\-pidfile=" pidfile |
| 126 | Write |
| 127 | .BR tripectl 's |
| 128 | process-id to |
| 129 | .I pidfile |
| 130 | (relative to |
| 131 | .IR dir ). |
| 132 | If the |
| 133 | .B \-D |
| 134 | and |
| 135 | .B \-f |
| 136 | options are given, a default of |
| 137 | .IB dir /tripectl.pid |
| 138 | is used if you don't give a |
| 139 | .B \-P |
| 140 | option. |
| 141 | .TP |
| 142 | .B "\-s, \-\-spawn" |
| 143 | Start a new server: don't connect to an existing one. Starting a |
| 144 | .BR tripe (8) |
| 145 | server in this manner is a good way to ensure that no log messages are |
| 146 | lost. The |
| 147 | .BR \-l , |
| 148 | .B \-f |
| 149 | and |
| 150 | .B \-D |
| 151 | options are particularly useful in conjunction with |
| 152 | .BR \-s . |
| 153 | .TP |
| 154 | .BI "\-p, \-\-spawn\-path=" path |
| 155 | Implies |
| 156 | .BR \-s ; |
| 157 | runs the program named by |
| 158 | .I path |
| 159 | rather than the default |
| 160 | .BR tripe . |
| 161 | If |
| 162 | .I path |
| 163 | is actually an unqualified filename, the program to run is found using |
| 164 | the |
| 165 | .B PATH |
| 166 | environment variable in the usual way. |
| 167 | .TP |
| 168 | .BI "\-S, \-\-spawn\-args=" arg , arg ,\fR... |
| 169 | Implies |
| 170 | .BR \-s ; |
| 171 | passes the comma-separated |
| 172 | .IR arg s |
| 173 | to the |
| 174 | .B tripe |
| 175 | server on its command line. Arguments added using this option are added |
| 176 | .I after |
| 177 | any passed automatically by |
| 178 | .B tripectl |
| 179 | (e.g., |
| 180 | .BR \-a ). |
| 181 | .TP |
| 182 | .B "\-l, \-\-syslog" |
| 183 | Send warnings and trace messages to the |
| 184 | .BR syslog (8) |
| 185 | service. Messages are logged using the |
| 186 | .B daemon |
| 187 | facility. Warnings are logged with severity |
| 188 | .BR warning ; |
| 189 | trace messages are logged with severity |
| 190 | .BR debug . |
| 191 | .TP |
| 192 | .BI "\-f, \-\-logfile=" file |
| 193 | Write warnings and trace messages to |
| 194 | .IR file . |
| 195 | On receipt of a |
| 196 | .B SIGHUP |
| 197 | signal, |
| 198 | .B tripectl |
| 199 | will close its log file and reopen a new one with the same name. This |
| 200 | is useful when you rotate logs. |
| 201 | .TP |
| 202 | .B "\-w, \-\-warnings" |
| 203 | Write warnings to standard error even when running noninteractively. |
| 204 | .SS "Interactive use" |
| 205 | With no arguments, |
| 206 | .B tripectl |
| 207 | will connect to a running server and await commands from its standard |
| 208 | input. The commands are submitted to the server unchanged, and the |
| 209 | results written to standard output. It will quit when it receives a |
| 210 | fatal signal or an end-of-file indication from the server. |
| 211 | .SS "Use from scripts" |
| 212 | If arguments are given to |
| 213 | .BR tripectl , |
| 214 | they are quoted if necessary to protect spaces and other special |
| 215 | characters, concatenated with spaces between, and submitted to the |
| 216 | server after connection. Any |
| 217 | .B INFO |
| 218 | responses returned by the server are written to standard output (without |
| 219 | the |
| 220 | .B INFO |
| 221 | on the front). A |
| 222 | .B FAIL |
| 223 | response causes the error message to be written to standard error, and |
| 224 | the client to exit with a nonzero return code. An |
| 225 | .B OK |
| 226 | response causes the client to exit with a zero return code. Unless the |
| 227 | .B \-w |
| 228 | command-line option was given, any |
| 229 | .B WARN |
| 230 | responses are discarded; if |
| 231 | .B \-w |
| 232 | .I was |
| 233 | given, |
| 234 | .B WARN |
| 235 | responses are written to standard error. In all cases, |
| 236 | .B TRACE |
| 237 | responses are ignored. |
| 238 | .SS "Starting the tripe server" |
| 239 | If any of the options |
| 240 | .BR \-s , |
| 241 | .B \-p |
| 242 | or |
| 243 | .B \-S |
| 244 | are given, |
| 245 | .B tripectl |
| 246 | will start a new |
| 247 | .B tripe |
| 248 | server, rather than connecting to an existing one. |
| 249 | .PP |
| 250 | The command line for the new server is |
| 251 | .IP |
| 252 | .I path |
| 253 | .B \-F |
| 254 | .B \-d.\& |
| 255 | .B \-a |
| 256 | .I socket |
| 257 | .I dash-S-options |
| 258 | .PP |
| 259 | where |
| 260 | .I dash-S-options |
| 261 | is the concatenation of the arguments of |
| 262 | .B \-S |
| 263 | options, split at commas. |
| 264 | .PP |
| 265 | Starting a |
| 266 | .B tripe |
| 267 | server through |
| 268 | .B tripectl |
| 269 | is most useful if you want to collect logging information from the |
| 270 | server, and want to avoid losing any. For example, the command |
| 271 | .VS |
| 272 | tripectl -Ds -f tripe.log |
| 273 | .VE |
| 274 | starts up a new server in the default directory, and captures all of its |
| 275 | logging output (i.e., |
| 276 | .B WARN |
| 277 | and |
| 278 | .B TRACE |
| 279 | messages) in the file |
| 280 | .BR tripe.log . |
| 281 | It stores its process-id in |
| 282 | .BR tripectl.pid . |
| 283 | .PP |
| 284 | It's possible to communicate interactively with a newly-started server, |
| 285 | or to give it a command and quit, but this is seldom useful. |
| 286 | . |
| 287 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 288 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 289 | . |
| 290 | .BR tripe\-admin (5), |
| 291 | .BR tripe (8). |
| 292 | .PP |
| 293 | .IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" , |
| 294 | .IR "The Wrestlers Protocol" . |
| 295 | . |
| 296 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 297 | .SH "AUTHOR" |
| 298 | . |
| 299 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |
| 300 | . |
| 301 | .\"----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------- |