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simba(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation simba(3pm)

NAME

simba

VERSION

0.8.4

SYNOPSIS

simba [-c|--config <configuration file] [--callbacks|-p] [--help|-h] [mirror_name]

PREREQUISITES

simba requires RoPkg::Simba

DESCRIPTION

There are many institutions that offer mirroring services to the community. Most of them use shell scripts to synchronize content with the master servers. This approach has some major limitations:

Simba was created to be the mirroring tool and to get more control over the mirrored content and (most important) more control over the reports you can generate using the mirrored content data. Using Simba, you can:

Simba is extensible and has a dynamic plugin system. If you have some knowledge of perl, you can write your own plugins and extend Simba as you wish.

RUNNING

simba has a few command line parameters.

-c|--config

Expects the path to the configuration file

-p|--callbacks

Start the user defined callbacks

-h|--help

Shows this man page

The main documentation is available on the website (http://simba.packages.ro). There you will find detailed documentation, templates and a HOWTO.

SEE ALSO

RoPkg::Simba::Mirror RoPkg::Simba::Command RoPkg::Simba::Exclude RoPkg::Simba::Mirrors RoPkg::Simba::Commands RoPkg::Simba::Excludes

AUTHOR

Subredu Manuel <diablo@iasi.roedu.net>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 Subredu Manuel. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license.

2018-12-09 perl v5.28.1