go500
is the local gopher index search to X.500 search daemon.
It looks like a gopher index server to a gopher
client, translating the search criteria it is given into a
search of a pre-configured portion of the X.500 directory.
It uses LDAP to talk to X.500. By default, it listens on
port 5555 for connections from gopher clients.
The
go500
server can be run either from
inetd(8)
or as stand-alone server.
STAND-ALONE OPERATION
To start
go500
as a stand-alone server, simply start it with no arguments
/usr/sbin/go500
If you would like to start it at boot time add some lines like this to
the
etc/rc.local
or equivalent file:
if [ -f /usr/sbin/go500 ]; then
/usr/sbin/go500; echo ' go500'
fi
OPERATION WITH INETD
To arrange to have
go500
started from
inetd(8),
the Internet protocol
daemon, add a line like the following to your
/etc/services
file, or the equivalent:
go500 5555/tcp go500
Next, add a line like this to your
/etc/inetd.conf
file, or the equivalent:
For these changes to take effect with inetd, you will probably have
to send it it a HUP signal. See
inetd(8)
for more details.
GOPHER CONFIGURATION
The next step is to configure your local gopher server to have an
entry for
go500.
With the standard unix gopher server, this
can be done with a
.link
file.
A sample
.link
file is given below, with the things you should
change given in <>'s:
Name=<Label of your choice>
Type=7
Port=5555
Path=
Host=<host.running.go500.here>
You may also have to restart your gopher daemon, or remove the
.cache
file.
See
gopherd(8)
for more details.
OPTIONS
-b searchbase
Specify an alternate starting point for searches. The argument should
be a Distinguished Name in the form defined by RFC 1485. For example,
the DN "o=University of Michigan, c=US" could be given to search the
University of Michigan portion of the X.500 tree.
-d level
Turn on debugging as defined by
level.
If this option is specified,
go500
will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
operation and status messages are printed for any value of level.
level is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
different kind of debugging information.
-f filterfile
Specify an alternate filter configuration file for use with the
ldap_getfilter(3)
facility, used by
go500.
-l
Enable logging of various status and errors to the LOG_DAEMON facility via
syslog(8).
-p port
Specify an alternate port on which to listen for connections.
-t templatefile
Specify an alternate template configuration file for
use with the
ldap_init_templates(3)
facility, used by
go500.
-c rdncount
Specify the number of DN components to show for the names and DN attributes
within entries matching the search.
-x hostname
Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
Some implementations of inetd have a small limit on the number of arguments
that can be specified in the
/etc/inetd.conf(5)
file. This can cause
problems if you are using
go500
with a lot of arguments.
The default values for most of the things you can specify with
options are configured at compile time in the
include/ldapconfig.h.edit
include file.
