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barnowl(1) General Commands Manual barnowl(1) NAME
barnowl - tty based zephyr client SYNOPSIS
barnowl [ -n ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -v ] [ -h ] [ -c configfile ] [ -t tty ] [ -s configdir ] DESCRIPTION
BarnOwl is a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client. Currently it supports AOL Instant Messenger, MIT Zephyr, and Jabber. It is curses-based, allows for emacs-style editing of outgoing messages and uses perl as an extension and configuration language. BarnOwl will also run happily without a configuration file. Once BarnOwl is started, typing 'h' will display a help screen. Typing ':' enters command mode, allowing the user to type a barnowl com- mand line. USE
The following command line options are avilable when running barnowl: -n Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup. By default BarnOwl subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything found in ~/.zephyr.subs. When this option is used no subscriptions are loaded. -c configfile Specifiy an alternate config file for BarnOwl to use. By default, barnowl uses ~/.barnowlconf if it exists, and ~/.owlconf other- wise. -s configdir Specify an alternate configuration directory. By default, BarnOwl uses ~/.owl/. -t tty Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location. -v Print the version number of barnowl and exit. -d Enable debugging. By default debugging information is placed in /var/tmp/owldebug. -D Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file. -h Print command line option help. AUTHOR
Written by Nelson Elhage and Alejandro Sedeno at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Based on Owl by James Kretchmar. Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to bug-barnowl@mit.edu. 23 Jun 2008 barnowl(1)
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ZLOCATE(1) General Commands Manual ZLOCATE(1) NAME
zlocate - find a user using Zephyr SYNOPSIS
zlocate [ -a | -d ] [ -1 ] [ -p ] user ... DESCRIPTION
Zlocate uses the Zephyr(1) Notification Service to find where a user is currently logged in. If the user is not logged in, or has set his location information such that you do not have access to see it, zlocate prints "Hidden or not logged-in". Otherwise, each machine that the user is currently logged into is printed, along with the time of login and location. The location is usually the X window system dis- play name of the user's display, but may be the terminal name if he is not using X or for some other reason is only using the terminal interface to zwgc(1). By default, all zlocate requests are authenticated using Kerberos. If you do not have Kerberos tickets, or for some other reason do not want to authenticate, the -d option will turn off authentication. The -a option is the default, authentication on. When locating multiple users, zlocate will display the user name on a line by itself, followed by the locations for that user. To display the user name on the same line as the output, use the -1 option (the numeral one). To look up multiple users in parallel asynchronously, use the -p option. DIAGNOSTICS
zlocate exits with status zero (0) if at least one user was found, and one (1) if no users were found. SEE ALSO
zctl(1), zephyr(1), znol(1), zwgc(1), zhm(8), zephyrd(8), X(1) Project Athena Technical Plan Section E.4.1, `Zephyr Notification Service' AUTHORS
Robert S. French (MIT-Project Athena) Marc Horowitz (MIT-Project Athena) RESTRICTIONS
Copyright (c) 1987,1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All Rights Reserved. zephyr(1) specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. MIT Project Athena April 17, 1990 ZLOCATE(1)