3.1 Commands

MEDIATEX CLIENT (see Client)’s queries:

• Admin queries:

  # mediatex adm init

  # mediatex adm remove

  # mediatex adm purge

  Initialise, remove and purge MEDIATEX software.

  # mediatex adm add user user

  # mediatex adm del user user

  Manage PUBLISHER users.

  # mediatex adm add coll [serv-]coll[@host[:port]]

  # mediatex adm del coll coll

  Create/subscribe or destroy/unsubscribe a collection.

• Data management:

  $ mediatex add supp supp on path

  Add a new external support: a device or file not always accessible.

  $ mediatex add file path

  Add a new external support’s file: a file always accessible locally.

  $ mediatex del supp supp

  Remove a support (external support or support’s file).

  $ mediatex ls supp

  List supports.

  $ mediatex note supp supp as text

  Associate a short text (10 character’s) with a support, which will be display on the list.

  $ mediatex check supp supp on file

  Provide an external support (that is accessible now).

  $ mediatex add supp supp to (all|coll coll)

  $ mediatex del supp supp from (all|coll coll)

  Manage sharing support with collections.

  $ mediatex upload[+] [file file [as target]]* [catalog file] [rules file] to coll coll

  Upload an incoming archive into the cache. Appending one or two ’+’ will run “uprade” or “upgrade+make” queries too.

• Meta-data management:

  $ mediatex ls [master] coll

  List collections.

  (motd)

  Display actions PUBLISHER have to perform.

  $ mediatex add key file to coll coll

  $ mediatex del key fingerprint from coll coll

  Manage remote servers subscription.

  $ mediatex upgrade[+] [coll coll]

  Synchronise local server. Appending one ’+’ will run “make” queries too.

  $ mediatex make [coll coll]

  $ mediatex clean [coll coll]

  Manage the local HTML catalogue.

  $ mediatex su [coll coll]

  Change to MEDIATEX (see Conceptual model) or collection system user.

  $ mediatex audit for mail coll coll

  Extract all archives from a collection.

• Queries to daemon:

  $ mediatex srv save

  Ask SERVER (see Server) to dump its state into disk.

  $ mediatex srv extract

  Ask SERVER to perform extractions.

  $ mediatex srv notify

  Ask SERVER to communicate its state to other servers.

  $ mediatex srv [quick] scan

  Ask SERVER to manage file added manually to the cache. The files must be describes into meta-data, otherwise they are deleted from the cache. On quick scan, only file’s sizes are matche, not checksums.

  $ mediatex srv trim

  Ask SERVER to remove from the cache all files that can be extracted by using containers present into the cache.

  $ mediatex srv clean

  Ask SERVER to remove from the cache all files that are safe and can be extracted locally using local supports.

  $ mediatex srv purge

  Ask SERVER to remove from the cache all files that are safe.

  $ mediatex srv status

  Ask SERVER to log its memory status and available cache’s sizes.

• Internal/debug queries:

  $ mediatex adm update [coll coll]

  $ mediatex adm commit [coll coll]

  Manage GIT synchronisation (already managed by “upgrade” query)

  $ mediatex adm make [coll coll]

  Build the local HTML catalogue without GIT synchronisation.

  $ mediatex adm bind

  $ mediatex adm unbind

  Manage collection repository binding on the chrooted jail for SSH remote access (already manage SERVER).

  $ mediatex adm mount iso on path

  $ mediatex adm umount path

  Manage mounting ISO devices.

  $ mediatex adm get path as coll on path

  Retrieve a remote collection’s file via SSH.