mirror of
https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds
synced 2024-09-29 17:37:55 +02:00
209 lines
8.6 KiB
Text
209 lines
8.6 KiB
Text
The Little Brother's Database
|
|
|
|
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> (current maintainer)
|
|
Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de> (initial author)
|
|
|
|
This package was inspired by the Big Brother Database package
|
|
available for various Emacs mailers, and by Brandon Long's "external
|
|
query" patch for the mutt mail user agent (Note that this patch has
|
|
been incorporated into the main-line mutt versions as of mutt 0.93.)
|
|
|
|
The package doesn't use any formal database libraries or languages,
|
|
although it should be quite easy to extend it to use, e.g., an
|
|
installed PostgreSQL server as it's backend.
|
|
|
|
For querying the Little Brother, just type "lbdbq <something>". lbdbq
|
|
will now attempt to invoke various modules to gather information about
|
|
persons matching "<something>". E.g., it may look at a list of
|
|
addresses from which you have received mail, it may look at YP maps,
|
|
or it may try to finger <something>@<various hosts>.
|
|
|
|
The behavior is configurable: Upon startup, lbdbq will source the
|
|
shell scripts
|
|
|
|
/usr/local/etc/lbdb.rc (or where your @sysconfdir@ points to)
|
|
$HOME/.lbdbrc
|
|
$HOME/.lbdb/lbdbrc
|
|
$HOME/.lbdb/rc
|
|
|
|
if they exist.
|
|
|
|
They can be used to set the following global variables:
|
|
|
|
- MODULES_PATH: Where lbdbq should look for modules
|
|
|
|
- METHODS: What modules to use.
|
|
|
|
- SORT_OUTPUT: Set this to "false" or "no" and lbdbq won't sort the
|
|
addresses but returns them in reverse order (which means that the
|
|
most recent address in m_inmail database is first). If you set this
|
|
to "name", lbdbq sorts the output by real name. If you set this to
|
|
"comment", it sort the output by the comment (for example the date
|
|
in m_inmail). If you set this to "address", lbdbq sorts the output
|
|
by addresses (that's the default).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note that there _are_ defaults, so you should most probably modify
|
|
these variables using constructs like this:
|
|
|
|
MODULES_PATH="MODULES_PATH $HOME/lbdb_modules"
|
|
|
|
Additionally, modules may have configuration variables of their own.
|
|
|
|
Currently the following modules are supplied with lbdb:
|
|
|
|
m_finger
|
|
This module will use finger to find out something more about a
|
|
person. The list of hosts do be asked is configurable; use the
|
|
M_FINGER_HOSTS variable. Note that "localhost" will mean an
|
|
invocation of your local finger(1) binary, and should thus work
|
|
even if you don't provide the finger service to the network.
|
|
m_finger tries to find out the machines mail domain name in
|
|
/etc/mailname, by parsing a sendmail.cf file (if it finds one)
|
|
and by reading /etc/hostname and /etc/HOSTNAME.
|
|
|
|
m_inmail
|
|
This module will look up user name fragments in a list of mail
|
|
addresses created by lbdb-fetchaddr(1).
|
|
|
|
m_passwd
|
|
This module searches for matching entries in your local
|
|
/etc/passwd file. It evaluates the local machine mail domain in
|
|
the same way m_finger does. If you set PASSWD_IGNORESYS=true,
|
|
this module ignores all system accounts and only finds UIDs
|
|
between 1000 and 29999 (all other UIDs are reserved on a Debian
|
|
system).
|
|
|
|
m_yppasswd
|
|
This module searches for matching entries in your NIS password
|
|
file using the command "ypcat passwd".
|
|
|
|
m_nispasswd
|
|
This module searches for matching entries in the NIS+ password
|
|
database using the command ``niscat passwd.org_dir''.
|
|
|
|
m_getent
|
|
This module searches for matching entries in whatever password
|
|
database is configured using the command ``getent passwd''.
|
|
|
|
m_pgp2, m_pgp5, m_gpg
|
|
These modules scan your PGP 2.*, PGP 5.* or GnuPG public key
|
|
ring for data. They use the programs pgp(1), pgpk(1), or gpg(1)
|
|
to get the data.
|
|
|
|
m_fido
|
|
This module searches your Fido nodelist, stored in
|
|
$HOME/.lbdb/nodelist created by nodelist2lbdb(1).
|
|
|
|
m_abook
|
|
This module uses the program abook
|
|
(http://www.linuxstart.com/~jheinonen/abook/), a text based
|
|
address book application to search for addresses. You can
|
|
define multiple abook address books by setting the variable
|
|
ABOOK_FILES to a space separated list.
|
|
|
|
m_addr_email
|
|
This module uses addr-email from the addressbook
|
|
(http://red.roses.de/~clemens/addressbook/) Tk program to
|
|
search for addresses.
|
|
|
|
m_muttalias
|
|
This module searches the variable MUTTALIAS_FILES (a space
|
|
separated list) of files in MUTT_DIRECTORY that contain mutt
|
|
aliases. File names without leading slash will have
|
|
MUTT_DIRECTORY (defaults to $HOME/.mutt or $HOME, if
|
|
$HOME/.mutt does not exist) prepended before the file name.
|
|
Absolute file names (beginning with /) will be taken direct.
|
|
|
|
m_pine
|
|
This module searches pine(1) addressbook files for
|
|
aliases. To realize this it first inspects the variable PINERC.
|
|
If it isn't set, the default `/etc/pine.conf
|
|
/etc/pine.conf.fixed .pinerc' is used. To suppress inspecting
|
|
the PINERC variable, set it to "no". It than takes all
|
|
address-book and global-address-book entries from these pinerc
|
|
files and adds the contents of the variable PINE_ADDRESSBOOKS
|
|
to the list, which defaults to `/etc/addressbook .addressbook'.
|
|
Then these addressbooks are searched for aliases. All filenames
|
|
without leading slash are searched in $HOME.
|
|
|
|
m_palm
|
|
This module searches the Palm address database using the
|
|
Palm::PDB and Palm::Address Perl modules from CPAN. It
|
|
searches in the variable PALM_ADDRESS_DATABASE or if this isn't
|
|
set in $HOME/.jpilot/AddressDB.pdb.
|
|
|
|
m_gnomecard
|
|
This module searches for addresses in your GnomeCard database
|
|
files. The variable GNOMECARD_FILES is a whitespace separated
|
|
list of GnomeCard data files. If this variable isn't defined,
|
|
the module searches in $HOME/.gnome/GnomeCard for the GnomeCard
|
|
database or at least falls back to $HOME/.gnome/GnomeCard.gcrd.
|
|
If a filename does not start with a slash, it is prefixed with
|
|
$HOME/.
|
|
|
|
m_bbdb
|
|
This module searches for addresses in your (X)Emacs BBDB (big
|
|
brother database). It doesn't access ~/.bbdb directly (yet)
|
|
but calls (x)emacs with a special mode to get the information
|
|
(so don't expect too much performance in this module). You can
|
|
configure the EMACS variable to tell this module which emacsen
|
|
to use. Otherwise it will fall back to emacs or xemacs.
|
|
|
|
m_ldap
|
|
This module queries an LDAP server using the Net::LDAP Perl
|
|
modules from CPAN. It can be configured using an external
|
|
resource file (for more details please refer to the
|
|
mutt_ldap_query(1) manual page).
|
|
|
|
m_wanderlust
|
|
This module searches for addresses stored in your
|
|
$WANDERLUST_ADDRESSES (or by default in $HOME/.addresses) file,
|
|
an addressbook of WanderLust.
|
|
|
|
m_osx_addressbook
|
|
This module queries the OS X AddressBook. It is only available
|
|
on OS X systems.
|
|
|
|
m_evolution
|
|
This module queries the Ximian Evolution address book using the
|
|
evolution-addressbook-export application.
|
|
|
|
m_vcf
|
|
This module uses libvformat to search for addresses from the
|
|
space-separated set of vCard files defined in $VCF_FILES.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Feel free to create your own modules to query other kinds of
|
|
databases. m_finger should be a good example of how to do it.
|
|
|
|
If you create your own modules or have other changes and feel that
|
|
they could be helpful for others, don't hesitate to submit them to me
|
|
for inclusion in later releases.
|
|
|
|
Finally, to use lbdbq from mutt, add the following line to your
|
|
~/.muttrc:
|
|
|
|
set query_command="lbdbq %s"
|
|
|
|
|
|
CREDITS
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
Most of the really interesting code of this program (namely, the RFC
|
|
822 address parser used by lbdb-fetchaddr) was stolen from Michael
|
|
Elkins' mutt mail user agent. Additional credits go to Brandon Long
|
|
for putting the query functionality into mutt.
|
|
|
|
Many thanks to the authors of the several modules and extensions:
|
|
- Ross Campbell <rcampbel@us.oracle.com> (m_abook, m_yppasswd)
|
|
- Marc de Courville <marc@courville.org> (m_ldap, mutt_ldap_query)
|
|
- Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com> (m_osx_addressbook, m_vcf)
|
|
- Gabor Fleischer <flocsy@mtesz.hu> (m_pine)
|
|
- Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> (m_gnomecard)
|
|
- Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> (m_evolution)
|
|
- Utz-Uwe Haus <haus@uuhaus.de> (m_bbdb, m_nispasswd)
|
|
- Torsten Jerzembeck <toje@nightingale.ms.sub.org> (m_addr_email)
|
|
- Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org> (m_wanderlust)
|
|
- Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org> (m_palm, lbdb.el)
|
|
- Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke@bigpond.net.au> (m_muttalias)
|