NAME¶
nnslog - Name service facility, Commandline Logging Client Application
SYNOPSIS¶
nnslog ?
-host host? ?
-port port?
DESCRIPTION¶
Please read
Name service facility, introduction first.
The application described by this document,
nnslog, is a simple command
line client for the nano name service facility provided by the Tcllib packages
nameserv, and
nameserv::server.
It essentially implements "
nns search -continuous *", but uses
a different output formatting. Instead of continuously showing the current
contents of the server in the terminal it simply logs all received add/remove
events to
stdout.
This name service facility has nothing to do with the Internet's
Domain Name
System, otherwise known as
DNS. If the reader is looking for a
package dealing with that please see either of the packages
dns and
resolv, both found in Tcllib too.
USE CASES¶
nnslog was written with the following main use case in mind.
- [1]
- Monitoring the name service for all changes and logging
them in a text terminal.
COMMAND LINE¶
- nnslog ?-host host? ?-port
port?
- The command connects to the specified name service, sets up
a search for all changes and then prints all received events to stdout,
with each events on its own line. The command will not exit until it is
explicitly terminated by the user. It will especially survive the loss of
the connection to the name service and reestablish the search and log when
the connection is restored.
The options to specify the name service will be explained later, in section
OPTIONS.
OPTIONS¶
This section describes all the options available to the user of the application
- -host name|ipaddress
- If this option is not specified it defaults to
localhost. It specifies the name or ip-address of the host the name
service to talk to is running on.
- -port number
- If this option is not specified it defaults to
38573. It specifies the TCP port the name service to talk to is
listening on for requests.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK¶
This document, and the application it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs
and other problems. Please report such in the category
nameserv of the
Tcllib SF Trackers [
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].
Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either
application and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO¶
nameserv(3tcl), nameserv::common(3tcl)
KEYWORDS¶
application, client, name service
CATEGORY¶
Networking
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2008 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>