README FR -- File Rotator -- Instructions Copyright (c) 2000 Edward V. POPKOV Distributed under GPL, see COPYING for details "Edward V. POPKOV" $Id: README,v 0.2 2000/04/13 23:50:36 root Exp root $ $Log: README,v $ Revision 0.2 2000/04/13 23:50:36 root Added unlimited dirs on command line Revision 0.1 2000/04/10 16:37:03 root Additional fallback features Revision 0.0 2000/04/07 14:54:19 root Initial check-in Contents 1. What is FR? 2. Requirements 3. Installation 4. Distribution 5. Acknowledgements 6. How to contribute 1. What is FR? FR is a DFC add-on. It expects DFC to share a file of a special format, which it tries to read from shared memory and find an entry that corresponds to the directories passed to FR via command line. When the entry is found, FR picks a random filename from dirtab and pumps the file to stdout. If the directory is missing from dirtab, FR skips it and tries the next one given on command line, if any. Count of dirs on FR command line is limited only by the OS. If anything goes wrong, FR just silently quits with EXIT_SUCCESS. 2. Requirements Development and testing platform is PC under Linux 2.0.38, libc5. You need to have IPC support compiled into your kernel. 3. Installation # configure # make # make -n install # make install Makefile also has uninstall and upgrade targets. Format of fr.conf: : ... No blanks, no empty lines, no comments. utils/conf.pl should help. 4. Distribution FR is GPL'ed, see COPYING for details. 5. Acknowledgements FR project sponsor is "Kevin M. Liang" . In my work I'm using: Linux, bash, vim, autoconf, make, sed, gcc, ld Thanks to developers of these and numerous other free and open source tools. 6. Contributions Get in touch with me if you want to add to FR. Thx and take care Edward V. POPKOV Independent Developer -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC d-(+) s:- a C$ UL+++>$ P+ L++(+++)>$ E--- W--(+) N o? K? w$ !O M? V PS+ PE Y PGP t? 5? X? R !tv b++@ DI D+ G++ e h* r++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- End of README