uniconfd(8) [debian man page]
UNICONFD(8) System Manager's Manual UNICONFD(8) NAME
uniconfd - a daemon program for the UniConf configuration system SYNOPSIS
uniconfd [ OPTIONS ] MOUNT ... DESCRIPTION
UniConf is the One True Configuration system that includes all the others because it has plugin backends and frontends. Or, less grandiosely, it's a lightweight, distributed, cacheable tree of strings. It supports: o retrieving, storing, and enumerating key/value pairs (where both keys and values are strings). o multiple backends where the actual key/value pairs are stored. o multiple frontends for tying it to other configuration architectures. It operates locally, and across a network, allowing you to tie multiple different applications together for distributed computing. Also, it provides notifications in the form of callbacks, so your application can be notified if a configuration key has changed. uniconfd is necessary when you have more than one application, or multiple instances of an application, sharing one configuration. Uni- Conf-enabled applications contact uniconfd which provides notifications when any of their watched keys change. You tell uniconfd which UniConf MOUNT you want it to manage. See the MOUNTS section for more information. OPTIONS
-f Run in the foreground. Do not fork into a separate daemon process. -d, -dd Print debugging messages to the console. The second d increases the verbosity of the messages. -V Print the version number and exit. -a Require authentication on incoming connections. -A Check all accesses against a perms moniker. -p port Listen on a given TCP port. The default is 4111. If port is 0, then listening on TCP is disabled. -s port Listen on a given TCP port wrapped in SSL. The default is 4112. If port is 0, then listening on SSL-over-TCP is disabled. -u filename Listen on a given Unix socket filename. This is disabled by default. MOUNTS
Mounts are UniConf path monikers which are in the form: /SUBTREE=GENERATORS:PATH SUBTREE This is the tree to manage. All trees are descended from the root tree, indicated by a bare slash (/). GENERATORS These are the generators used to read and write key/value pairs. You can chain them with colons. For example, the generator chain: cache:retry:ini will cache the configuration for speed, retry persistently if the data source disappears, and store the data in an INI-formatted file. PATH This is the location where the data is stored. It is dependent on which GENERATORS were specified. For instance, it could be: o a filename (ini:/var/lib/app/config.ini), o a network address, (tcp:open.nit.ca:4111), o or even an empty string (tmp:). Examples: /=tmp: /ca/nit=ssl:open.nit.ca /ca/nit/uniconfd=ini:/var/lib/uniconfd/uniconfd.ini /apps=cache:retry:unix:/var/lib/apps/socket FILES
/etc/uniconfd.conf /var/lib/uniconf/uniconfd.ini /var/lib/uniconf/uniconf.ini AUTHORS
This software was written by the hackers at Net Integration Technologies. Contact us at <wvstreams-dev@lists.nit.ca> UniConfDaemon 4.6.1 August 2004 UNICONFD(8)
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inifile - Parsing of Windows INI files SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2 package require inifile ?0.2.3? ::ini::open file ?access? ::ini::close ini ::ini::commit ini ::ini::revert ini ::ini::filename ini ::ini::sections ini ::ini::keys ini section ::ini::get ini section ::ini::exists ini section ?key? ::ini::value ini section key ?default? ::ini::set ini section key value ::ini::delete ini section ?key? ::ini::comment ini section ?key? ?text? ::ini::commentchar ?char? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
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