Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What wwwoffle
> does for me is to let me pull web content onto my notebook
> computer, disconnect from the LAN, and read it on the bus or
> on the plane or in the park.
> I'm also using it on my desktop machine to selectively
> prefetch websites I visit often (great feature) and cut out
> the most offensive adverts
> What I'd love to do (if it's possible) is to merge the
> settings and sites to monitor and sites to fetch and sites
> to block to the laptop when I leave and merge the requests
> I made when on the road back to the desktop machine when I
> come back. Ideally it would merge caches too. My ideal
> would be to have wwwoffle monitoring the sites I typically
> visit so I can read the latest slashdot and news and comic
> strips unconnected.
If you are only ever using one of the two machines at any time then
the easiest way is to copy the whole WWWOFFLE cache from one to the
other. I use rsync to copy the files over with the minimum trouble.
You need to copy all of the files that normally live under
/var/spool/wwwoffle/ and the wwwoffle.conf file.
This is the way that I do it when I transfer my cache to my laptop.
But I only use the laptop when away from home and my usual dialup
computer. I do use the laptop for dialup so in effect I have only one
computer that I use although physically it is one of two.
Doing it this way there is no merging to do.
> I know where the block sites url regexps are (after all,
> you have to edit the .conf file to do it). I'm not sure if
> automatically merging .conf files is good practice, but I
> could probably do it with a little perl.
If you really do want to merge the config files then you are on your
own. It shouldn't be impossible, but if you don't edit them both at
once there should be no merging to do.
The other option it so put all the machine specific options into
included files (use '[' & ']' in the config file, read introduction at
the top of wwwoffle.conf). This way you can have the main
configuration different, but the list of adverts common.
> What I don't know is where wwwoffle stores its list of sites
> to fetch and monitor, nor what format they are in, nor
> whether I can just copy cache files into a common directory
> and expect wwwoffle to find them.
These are just stored in subdirectories of the /var/spool/wwwoffle
directory. The outgoing directory for requests and the ftp and http
directories for the cached files. There is absolutely no problem with
adding and deleting files in these directories. One of the design
requirements was that there is not a central database of cached URLs
that needs to be updated.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
