• View
• Edit
• History
• Attach
• Print

PmWikiWatch

PmWiki-Watch

Why I created pmwiki-watch

Using the PmWiki program and detecting other PmWikis in the Web I found it would be a good thing to search multiple PmWikis for recently changed sites. Otherwise the built-in mailpost function was not flexible enough and could not be configured to search in other PmWikis. Therefore I decided to develop a universal tool that can watch changes from any PmWiki and post me the changes via Mail. This could be configured by time directed jobs (cron jobs).

News

• 04/30/2004 Release 0.0.7

Requirements

• Linux (tested on debian woody, suse 8.2)
• Ruby Skript Language >= 1.6.7 (debian: apt-get install ruby)

Installation

• get the latest archive from http://www.reintechnisch.de/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-watch/(approve links)
• extract tarball
  • $ tar -xvzf pmwiki-watch.tar.gz
• go into created pmwiki-watch dir and run as root:
  • # ruby setup.rb config
  • # ruby setup.rb setup
  • # ruby setup.rb install
• after new install:
  • # cd /etc/pmwiki-watch
  • # cp pmwiki-watch.conf.tmpl pmwiki-watch.conf
  • # cp parse.rb.tmpl parse.rb
• setup your pmwiki-watch.conf
• create your own Job-Files in /etc/pmwiki-watch
• Test:
  • # pmwiki-watch -j myjob

Examples

This Example checks the pmichaud Wiki and the lugrudo Wiki and send a Mail to foo@server.de and bar@server.de. Pmwiki-watch is daily started with a cronjob: `pmwiki-watch -j daily´. The Linux-Box has a local Smtp-Mailserver.

 
---snip--- file /etc/pmwiki-watch/pmwiki-watch.conf (Configuration)
DebugLevel   1
SendMail     yes
SmtpServer   localhost
MailFrom mailerdaemon@myserver.de
HttpRedo     3

<WatchWiki PMichaud>
  url      www.pmichaud.com/wiki
  ARFormat 1  # new 0.6.x AllRecentChanges Format
</WatchWiki>

<WatchWiki Lugrudo>
  url      wiki.lugrudo.de/pmwiki.php
  ARFormat 0  # old 0.5.x AllRecentChanges Format
</WatchWiki>
---snip--- end file


---snip--- file /etc/pmwiki-watch/daily (Jobfile)
PMichaud  foo@server.de
PMichaud  bar@server.de
Lugrudo   foo@server.de
Lugrudo   bar@server.de
---snip--- end file


---snip--- Mail result
To: foo@server.de
Subject: [PMichaud] recent changes daily
From: mailerdaemon@myserver.de
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:20:02 +0200 (CEST)

Changed Pages:
(URL: http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki?pagename=Main.AllRecentChanges)

PmWiki/WikiPage                     Fri Apr 23 07:34:00 CEST 2004
PmWiki/PmWiki                       Fri Apr 23 07:12:00 CEST 2004
Main/SideBar                        Fri Apr 23 02:07:00 CEST 2004
Main/WikiSandbox                    Fri Apr 23 01:47:00 CEST 2004
PmWiki/PmWikiUsers                  Thu Apr 22 22:22:00 CEST 2004
Cookbook/PmWikiLogo                 Thu Apr 22 21:04:00 CEST 2004
PmWiki/PhpSafeMode                  Thu Apr 22 18:13:00 CEST 2004
Cookbook/ComplexRecipes             Thu Apr 22 17:51:00 CEST 2004
---snip--- End Mail

pmwiki-2.2.0-beta68 -- Last modified by {{wm}}?

from IP: 24.1.28.47 ip should be disabled by default for security reasons