I was wondering if I could get some feedback on the wwwoffle script, I'd like to create something actually helpfu and usefull. I'm going over it now to put out a second version.
Please let me know what could be added/modified. Thanks, -Dan On 02/22/2011 03:26 PM, Dan Zubey wrote: > On 02/22/2011 07:59 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> At first reading, I'm realizing that there's many things I don't know >> about wwwoffle! >> >> - Current rpms are available, but not in Fedora. >> http://www.google.com/search?q=wwwoffle+rpm+2.9 so we'd need to review >> the spec and see if Fedora is interested in carrying it... >> > I referenced the ubuntu init.d file as a model. There was a lot of stuff > in there for different offline > search engines, among other things. It brought to light a lot of > situations that I hadn't thought of, and integrated into the script. >> - So xs-config will likely contain /etc/xs-wwwoffle files and an >> /etc/init.d/xs-wwwoffle init script that points to that directory (and >> /var/cache/xs-wwwoffle, etc). All of this can be modelled on what's in >> the rpm. >> > There were some custom ubuntu/debian binaries to handle cert generation > and other tasks that I ran into. In order to keep any random system > utility binaries from breaking, I had the xs-wwwoffle script back up > /etc/wwwoffle and link it to /etc/xs-wwwoffle. > > I don't pretend we'd ever get all the special cases handled, so hence > the tendency to force the system to use our config file and directory. >> - wwwoffle does act as a normal proxy too when online... but can't >> handle the switching between modes, is that right? So it seems we'll >> need a "controller" daemon that monitors whether we have uplink or >> not, and switches wwwoffle between modes. >> > That's what this script does. I did not use the facility to have pppd > set wwwoffle online, instead I opted for a check to see if the machine > was online in *any* way at all, and then control wwwoffle. >> This script is probably the interesting part. Maybe there's something >> interesting in the rpm init script that we can copy or reuse. It'll >> probably need to handle >> >> - online / offline cases in a "pure wwwoffle" case >> >> - "wwwoffle + conventional online proxy" case, where when online we >> just call wwwoffle --fetch. Note that the conventional proxy may not >> be squid ;-) >> > In the case where there's another proxy, our setup wouldn't affect > normal operation at all. But then if a user is advanced enough to > install another proxy, they would know how to adjust wwwoffle's settings > as well. > > I gotta say...I've run a number of proxies, and squid has been the most > efficient and configurable. I use it at home and get a very high hit > rate. There are other proxies, apache comes up on the list, but squid > really takes the cake. It's a shame it didn't preform well in low memory > environments. > > -Dan > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
