SIMBA(8)

📦 version 0.8.4, in ubuntu jammy

💖 SIMBA — the simba(8) page, bestie edition 💖

okay so. pull up a chair, grab a boba, because we're about to talk about simba — that's the manual page for simba in section 8 of the user-contributed Perl docs. yes, section 8. she's a system-administration girlie. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

simba — that's it, that's the name, iconic behavior honestly 🫶

🌸 VERSION 🌸

0.8.4 ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

🦋 PREREQUISITES 🦋

bestie, simba is not gonna run without her emotional support module: she requires RoPkg::Simba. no RoPkg::Simba, no simba. that's the whole vibe check. 😭

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so, context: there are so many institutions out there offering mirroring services to the community, right? and most of them are out here syncing content with the master servers using… shell scripts. 💀 and listen, that approach has some major limitations:

  • Difficult maintenance 😩
  • No useful reports
  • No data presented to the final user
  • and more

and that's literally why Simba exists. she was created to be the mirroring tool — to give you more control over the mirrored content and, most importantly, way more control over the reports you can generate using the mirrored content data. the way that she does reports?? obsessed.

using Simba, you can:

  • Create web pages with mirrors status 🌈
  • Create web pages with mirror details ✨
  • Generate RSS feeds 🍓
  • Generate Google sitemaps 🗺️
  • Generate rsync configuration files 🧚
  • and more

and here's the part where she gets extensible: Simba has a dynamic plugin system. so if you have some knowledge of perl, you can literally write your own plugins and extend Simba however you wish. main character energy, fr fr. 💅

🏃 RUNNING 🏃

simba has a few command line parameters. let's get into it.

⚙️ -c|--config

Expects the path to the configuration file. give her the path, she'll take it from there. 🫶

💫 -p|--callbacks

Start the user defined callbacks. yes bestie, your callbacks. go off. 🔥

🙈 -h|--help

Shows this man page. so meta. so cute.

the main documentation is available on the website (http://simba.packages.ro). there you will find detailed documentation, templates and a HOWTO. go read her, she ate. 👑

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

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

(the sibling modules!! the whole family!! iykyk 💜)

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Subredu Manuel <diablo@iasi.roedu.net> — thank you for your service, king. ✨

📜 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.

bestie, if you're gonna redistribute her, do it on the same terms as Perl itself, and the full legal tea is in the LICENSE file. no cap. 💖

aaaand that's the whole page!! this manual was served up by perl v5.28.1, dated 2018-12-09, and it lives under SIMBA(8). slay, bye bestie!! 🎀💖✨

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