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- MAKEHOMEIDX
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- A Perl program to generate a home pages index of all user home pages
- on a machine.
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- Description
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- makehomeidx creates an HTML file (home pages index) containing links
- to users home pages on the machine makehomeidx is invoked. This
- program can be executed from cron(1) to automate the adding of user's
- home pages to a Web server.
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- makehomeidx scans through a UNIX password file (-passwd option) and
- checks each user's account if (s)he has defined a home page.
- makehomeidx does the following for each user:
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- * Check for the existance of a public html directory (-pubhtml
- option) in the user's home directory.
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- * Check for the existance of one of the following files in the
- public html directory in the order listed:
- + index.html
- + home.html
- + <user's login name>.html
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- * Check for the existance of a makehomeidx resource file (-idxrc
- option) in the user's public html directory. The file contains two
- lines. The first line is the user's name to use in the home page
- index. The second line is the user's (job) title to appear after
- the user's name.
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- If no resource file exists, the user's name as specified in the
- UNIX password file will be used, and no job title is listed.
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- The resulting home page index file lists the users with defined home
- pages sorted by last name.
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- See Usage for a complete list of options that affect the behavior of
- makehomeidx.
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- Usage
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- makehomeidx is invoked from a Unix shell, with the following syntax:
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- % makehomeidx [options] outfile
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- The resulting HTML home pages index file is specified by outfile.
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- The following options are available to makehomeidx:
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- -excfile filename
- Use filename as the exclude file listing login names that
- should be excluded in the home page index.
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- Each login name must be listed on a separate line in the file.
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- -footer filename
- Appends the contents of filename to the home pages index
- (outfile). The file may contain any HTML markup excluding the
- <HTML>, <HEAD>, and <BODY> tags.
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- -header filename
- Prepends the contents of filename to the home pages index
- (outfile). The file may contain any HTML markup excluding the
- <HTML>, <HEAD>, and <BODY> tags.
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- -help
- Print out a short help message about makehomeidx.
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- -hostname string
- Use string as the name of the host machine. Otherwise, use the
- string returned by hostname(1).
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- -idxrc name
- Use name as the filename of individuals makehomeidx resource
- file. Otherwise, use ".homeidxrc".
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- -incfile filename
- Use filename as the include file listing login names that
- should be included in the home page index. Login names not
- listed, are automatically excluded in the index. This allows
- you to restrict the total possible users that will be indexed.
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- If a login name appears in the include file and the exclude
- file specified by -excfile, then the user is excluded.
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- Each login name must be listed on a separate line in the file.
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- -passwd filename
- Use filename as the UNIX password file. Otherwise, use
- "/etc/passwd" instead. If filename is equal to "-", then
- makehomeidx reads the password file from standard input. This
- can be useful for password files that are accesible via NIS.
- Example: ypcat passwd | makehomeidx -passwd - homepages.html
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- -pubhtml name
- Use name as the directory name of user's public html directory.
- Otherwise, use "public_html".
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- -title string
- Use string for the title of the home pages index (outfile).
- Otherwise, use "Home Pages".
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- Notes
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- * The syntax of the URLs used to link to user's home page is as
- follows:
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- http://hostname/%7Elogin/homepage
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- where,
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- + hostname = machine name
- + login = login name of user
- + homepage = name of home page of user
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- The URLs work for the NCSA http daemon. makehomeidx has only been
- tested with the NCSA httpd. The author is not sure if the URLs
- will work for other http daemons.
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- * The UNIX passwd file is assumed to be a BSD style password file in
- determining a user's real-life name. If no makehomeidx resource
- file exists and no real-life name is defined in the password file,
- then the user's login name is used.
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- * makehomeidx requires the use of newgetopt.pl.
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- Author
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- Earl Hood
- ehood@convex.com
- CONVEX Computer Corporation
- 3000 Waterview Parkway
- P.O. Box 833851
- Richardson, TX 75083-3851
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- Phone: (214) 497-4387
- FAX: (214) 497-4500
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- makehomeidx 1.1.0
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