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PROGRAM:

NAME

pingd - echolot ping daemon

SYNOPSIS

pingd start
pingd stop
pingd process
pingd add address [address ...]
pingd delete address [address ...]
pingd disable address [address ...]
pingd enable address [address ...]
pingd set option=value [option=value..] address [address ...]
pingd setremailercaps capsstring
pingd deleteremailercaps address
pingd getkeyconf [address [address ...]]
pingd sendpings [address [address ...]]
pingd sendchainpings address:address [address:address ...]
pingd buildstats
pingd buildkeys
pingd buildthesaurus
pingd buildfromlines
pingd summary
pingd dumpconf

DESCRIPTION

pingd is the heart of echolot. Echolot is a pinger for anonymous remailers.

A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that regularily sends messages
through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics
which are used by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use.

Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all remailers and offers
them in a format readable by remailer clients.

When called without parameters pingd schedules tasks like sending pings, processing
incoming mail and requesting remailer-xxx data and runs them at configurable intervalls.

COMMANDS

start
Start the ping daemon.

stop
Send the running pingd process a SIGTERM.

process
Sends a HUP signal to the daemon which instructs it to process the commands.

For other effects of sending the HUP Signal see the SIGNALS section below.

add address [address ...]
Add address to the list of remailers to query for keys and confs.

delete address [address ...]
Delete address from the list of remailers to query for keys and confs. Delete all
statistics and keys for that remailer.

Note that echolot will add back this remailer if it learns of it from other remailers
again. If you do not want that, use the disable command.

disable address [address ...]
Shorthand for set showit=off pingit=off fetch=off. This makes echolot completely
ignore that remailer, until you enable it again.

enable address [address ...]
Shorthand for set showit=on pingit=on fetch=on.

set option=value [option=value..] address [address ...]
Possible options and values:

showit={on,off}
Set showit (show remailer in mlist, rlist etc.) for remailer address to either on
or off.

pingit={on,off}
Set pingit (send out pings to that remailer) for remailer address to either on or
off.

fetch={on,off}
Set fetch (fetch remailer-key and remailer-conf) for remailer address to either on
or off.

setremailercaps capsstring
Some remailers (Mixmaster V2 - currently lcs and passthru2) don't return a useable
remailer-conf message. For such remailers you need to set it manually.

For instance:

./pingd setremailercaps '$remailer{"passthru2"} = "<[email protected]> mix middle";'
./pingd setremailercaps '$remailer{"lcs"} = "<[email protected]> mix klen1000";'

deleteremailercaps address
Delete remailer-conf data for address. The config data will be reset from the next
valid remailer-conf reply by the remailer.

getkeyconf [address [address ...]]
Send a command to immediatly request keys and configuration from remailers. If no
addresses are given requests will be sent to all remailers.

sendpings [address [address ...]]
Send a command to immediatly send pings to the given remailers. If no addresses are
given requests will be sent to all remailers.

sendchainpings address:address [address:address ...]
Send a command to immediatly send chain pings to the given chains. A chain is two
remailer addresses seperated by a colon.

buildstats
Send a command to immediatly rebuild stats.

buildkeys
Send a command to immediatly rebuild the keyrings.

buildthesaurus
Send a command to immediatly rebuild the Thesaurus.

buildfromlines
Send a command to immediatly rebuild the From Header lines page.

summary
Print a status summary of all known addresses to the log (level notice).

dumpconf
Dumps the current configuration to standard output.

OPTIONS

--basedir
The home directory to which everything else is relative. See the BASE DIRECTORY
section below.

--verbose
Verbose mode. Causes pingd to print debugging messages about its progress.

--quiet
Quiet mode. Be even quieter than normal.

--help
Print a short help message and exit sucessfully.

--version
Print version number and exit sucessfully.

--nohup
Usefull only with the add, set, setremailercaps, deleteremailercaps, getkeyconf,
sendpings, sendchainpings, buildstats, buildkeys, buildthesaurus, buildfromlines, or
summary command.

Don't send a HUP signal to the daemon which instructs it to process the commands after
adding the command to the task list.

By default such a signal is sent.

--process
Usefull only with the start command.

Read and process the commands file on startup.

--detach
Usefull only with the start command.

Tell pingd to detach.

BASE DIRECTORY

The home directory to which everything else is relative.

Basedir defaults to whatever directory the pingd binary is located. It can be overridden
by the ECHOLOT_HOME environment variable which in turn is weaker than the --basedir
setting.

This directory is then used to locate the configuration file pingd.conf (see FILES below).

The homedir setting in pingd.conf finally sets the base directory.

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