Hi, I was tired of pulling up Wiktionary all the time, so I looked around for a DICT server less ancient than net/dictd, and came across GNU Dico.
GNU Dico is a flexible modular implementation of DICT server (RFC 2229).
In contrast to other implementations, it does not depend on particular
database format. GNU Dico handles database accesses using loadable modules.
The package is shipped with quite a few modules that provide support for the
most often used database formats and strategies. New modules can easily be
written in C, Guile or Python. The module API is mature and well documented.
The package also includes a console client program, that can be used to
query remote dictionary servers.
You can test the server easily. First, install the books/gcide port I
just sent to ports@. Then, create the following /etc/dicod.conf:
load-module gcide;
database {
name "gcide";
handler "gcide dbdir=/usr/local/share/doc/gcide idxdir=/var/dicod";
}
pidfile /var/run/dicod/dicod.pid;
Finally, create the pidfile and index directories, and start the server:
# mkdir /var/run/dicod /var/dicod
# chown _dicod /var/run/dicod /var/dicod
# rcctl start dicod
You can test with /usr/local/bin/dico in this package:
$ dico --host=localhost hello
Or curl:
$ curl dict://localhost:2628/d:hello
ok?
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Anthony J. Bentley
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Index: user.list =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list,v retrieving revision 1.336 diff -u -p -r1.336 user.list --- user.list 29 Dec 2018 14:29:54 -0000 1.336 +++ user.list 3 Mar 2019 08:41:07 -0000 @@ -339,3 +339,4 @@ id user group port options 828 _ossecm security/ossec-hids 829 _ossecr security/ossec-hids 830 _pdns_recursor _pdns_recursor net/powerdns_recursor +831 _dicod _dicod net/dico
