The Archive Tools Page
Overview
The tools used to build and maintain the archive are both extensive
and varied. They allow us to check for daily inconsistencies and then
fix any problems that might arise.
Each tool is either a PERL script or a simple shell script that performs one specific function. All the tools report to standard output - we use this go generate the nightly reports.
All the tools are stored in a archive-administrator's bin directory. Currently this is .../ftp-admin/bin.
The tools can be broken down into the following catagories:
Tools for manipulating the archive index.
- key_find Search for
information in the indexes.
- pindex Process the index files and WWW pages.
- process_index Part of the index processing.
- update_abstracts Updates human readable abstracts from the index.
- abstract_file_size Updates the abstracts with file size information.
- index_file_size Update the human readable indexes with file size information.
- extract_www Build WWW pages for browsing.
- pindex Process the index files and WWW pages.
Tools for manipulating the Authors Database.
- authprint Print information about an author.
- authadd Add an author to the authors database.
Tools for integrity and structure.
- mirror Program to update the
archive data contents.
- fixperms Ensures correct file permissions on all files.
- fix_dir_tree Performs sanity checks on a directory tree.
- symlink_check Performs sanity checks on symbolic links.
- log_anal Analyses logs of traffic.
- xferstats Analyses transfer statistics.
- fixperms Ensures correct file permissions on all files.
Built by Mark
Crosbie and
Ivan Krsul.
Security Archive Homepage.
COAST Project Page.
Purdue CS Dept page.
Last Modified: 16 March, 1995.
security-archive@cerias.purdue.edu (COAST Security Archive)