• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• SYNOPSIS
• REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
• OPTIONS
• ACTIONS
• MACROS
• ALIAS
• DIRECTIVES
• RULES
• FILES
• USE
• USAGE
• NOTES
• SEE ALSO
• DIAGNOSTICS
• EXIT STATUS
• CONFIGURATION
• DEPENDENCIES
• INCOMPATIBILITIES
• BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
• LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
• AUTHOR

NAME

afickonfig - a tool to manage Afick's config files

DESCRIPTION

afickonfig is to change parameters in afick's config file, in a batch way. It can add, replace, remove any components (macro, alias, directives, rules) It was designed to work with same options names as afick (directives).

Note : in the current version, it can checks some arguments syntax before applying,

The idea came from the "postconf" utility from postfix.

SYNOPSIS

afickonfig.pl [options] [action] [macros] [alias] [directives] [rules]

afick use posix syntax, which allow many possibilities :

• long (--) options

• short (-) options

• negative (--no) options

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

if run without arguments, afickonfig will just check the default config file

OPTIONS

options are used to control afickconfig

--config_file|-c configfile

read the configuration in config file named "configfile".

--check_config|-C

only check config file syntax and exit with the number of errors

--clean_config|-G

check config file syntax, clean bad line, and exit with the number of errors

--help|-?

Output summary help information and exit.

--list|-l

display parameter value, do not change it

--man

Output full help information and exit.

--print_config

display internals variables after arguments and config file parsing (for debugging purposes)

--version|-V

Output version information and exit.

--verbose|-v

add debugging messages

--addpath

add PATH directories to rules

--addlib

add libraries directories to rules (linux)

--move_database

change database path in config file to new "standard" (windows)

ACTIONS

actions are used to change afick's configuration

--allow_overload,(--noallow_overload)

if set, allow rule overload (the last rule wins), else put a warning and keep the first rule.

--allow_relativepath,(--noallow_relativepath)

if set, auto-control files (afick scripts, config and database) are stored as relative path.

--archive|-A directory

write reports to "directory".

--database|-D name

select the database named "name".

--debug|-d level

set a level of debugging messages, from 0 (none) to 3 (full)

--report_full_newdel|-f,(--noreport_full_newdel)

(do not) report full information on new and deleted directories.

--history|-y historyfile

write session status to history file

--ignore_case|-a

ignore case for file names. Can be helpful on Windows platforms, but is dangerous on Unix ones.

--warn_missing_file|-m,(--nowarn_missing_file)

(do not) warn about files declared in config files which does not exist.

--max_checksum_size|-S size

fix a maximum size (bytes) for checksum. on bigger files, compute checksum only on first 'size' bytes. (0 means no limit)

--warn_dead_symlinks|-s,(--nowarn_dead_symlinks)

(do not) warn about dead symlinks.

--follow_symlinks,(--nofollow_symlinks)

if set, do checksum on target file, else do checksum on target file name.

--running_files|-r,(--norunning_files)

(do not) warn about "running" files : modified since program begin.

--timing|-t,(--notiming)

(do not) Print timing statistics.

--report_syslog,(--noreport_syslog)

If true, send also the report to syslog

--report_summary,(--noreport_summary)

If true, report in the summary section, one ligne by file change

--report_context,(--noreport_context)

If true, display all attributes changes, not only those selected by rule. To make a difference, attributes from rules will have a "w_" prefix (warning), and other attributes will have a 'i_' prefix (info).

--exclude_suffix|-x "ext1 ext2 ... extn"

list of suffixes (files/directories ending in .ext1 or .ext2 ...) to ignore.

--exclude_prefix|-X "pre1 pre2 ... pren"

list of prefix (files/directories beginning with pre1 or pre2 ...) to ignore.

--exclude_re|-R "pat1 pat2 ... patn"

list of patterns (regular expressions) to ignore files or directories

MACROS

macros are to be set in afick configuration format (see afick.conf(5)) : '@@define macro value'

ALIAS

aliases are to be set in afick configuration format (see afick.conf(5)) : 'newrule = attributes'

DIRECTIVES

directives are to be set in afick configuration format (see afick.conf(5)) : 'directive := value'

RULES

rules are to be set in afick configuration format (see afick.conf(5)) : 'file alias'

FILES

if no config file on command line, afick try to open /etc/afick.conf (Unix) or windows.conf (Windows) as default config

for config file syntax see afick.conf(5)

USE

afickonfig may

change a config

if it can find an old config

add a config

if it does not find a previous value

remove a config

you just have to specify a parameter without any value. the old line is commented

USAGE

To use this program, you can run it with same afick command line options :

afickonfig.pl -c afick.conf --timing --norunnig_files --debug=1 --archive=afick_archive

or the same command in configuration file syntax :

afickonfig.pl -c afick.conf 'timing := 1' 'running_files := no' 'debug:=1' 'archive:=afick_archive'

or a mix of all syntaxes

afickonfig.pl -c afick.conf --timing 'debug:=1' '@@define BATCH 0' 'newrule = p+u+g' '/tmp newrule'

to remove lines, give an empty value

afickonfig -c afick.conf 'debug:=' '@@define BATCH' 'newrule=' '/tmp'

to display a value, use --list

afickonfig.pl -c afick.conf --list 'timing:=' 'database:='

NOTES

this program only use perl and its standard modules.

SEE ALSO

afick.conf(5) for the configuration file syntax

afick-tk(1) for the graphical interface

afick(1) for the command-line interface

afickonfig(1) for a tool to change afick's configuration file

afick_archive(1) for a tool to manage archive's reports

afick_learn(1) for a learning tool

DIAGNOSTICS

all warnings go to stderr

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is the number of real changes

CONFIGURATION

no specific configuration file

DEPENDENCIES

perl

INCOMPATIBILITIES

(none)

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

(none known)

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Eric Gerbier All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

Eric Gerbier

you can report any bug or suggest to eric.gerbier@tutanota.com