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@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -$Id: README,v 1.22 2002/07/22 02:18:30 weasel Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.23 2002/08/02 02:20:47 weasel Exp $ +##################################################################### +## R E A D M E F O R E C H O L O T ########################### +##################################################################### + +| Echolot, das: German, sonic depth finder Echolot is a Pinger for anonymous remailers. @@ -11,8 +16,8 @@ Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all remailers and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients. -This is echolot2. Besides the name, author and purpose this has nothing -to do with echolot1. It's written from scratch. +This is Echolot2. Besides the name, author and purpose this has nothing +to do with Echolot1. It's written from scratch. LICENSE ------- @@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ o Create a new unix user named »pinger« (You can actually use any name o Make sure you have the perl libraries mentioned above and GnuPG installed properly. -o Copy all echolot files and directories to ~pinger/echolot +o Copy all Echolot files and directories to ~pinger/Echolot o Copy/Rename the pingd.conf.sample file to pingd.conf. @@ -66,10 +71,10 @@ o If the GnuPG executable »gpg« is not in your PATH, set o Set my_localpart and my_domain in pingd.conf to the appropriate values for your pinger. Mail to my_localpart@my_domain needs to reach - echolot. + Echolot. o Make sure your MTA supports user defined mailboxes. so that - my_localpart+anything@my_domain also reaches echolot. + my_localpart+anything@my_domain also reaches Echolot. ^^^^^^^^^ If you use another character instead of + to indicate a user defined extension set recipient_delimiter accordingly in pingd.conf. @@ -117,6 +122,11 @@ o »./pingd --detach --verbose start« o You can tail the output file to get the debugging output: »tail -f output« +o In the tools directory you find the »pingctl« wrapper for Echolot. + It takes care of checking ulimits, userid and cd'ing to the right + directory. If you want you can install it as an init script in + /etc/init.d or similar and link it from the runlevel directories + if your init is SysV style. CONFIGURATION @@ -133,7 +143,7 @@ After changing pingd.conf you need to restart pingd. CAVEATS ------- -- echolot will keep open all ping and metadata files. This means it needs quite +- Echolot will keep open all ping and metadata files. This means it needs quite a few file descriptors (about 2 * total keys or 6 to 8 * remailers + some for perl). If you have a very strict ulimit for open files you need to increase it. Something like 512 should be plenty. @@ -142,3 +152,12 @@ CAVEATS Please report bugs and feature requests at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=echolot + +The Echolot homepage is at +http://www.palfrader.org/echolot/ + +ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +---------------- + Orange Admin for contributing ideas and templates + The FSF for savanna.gnu.org. + All testers of Echolot. |