QUOTED(1)quotedQUOTED(1)NAMEquoted - A ´qotd´ Quote Server
SYNOPSIS
The ´quoted´ application operates as an inetd invoked server, or as a
daemon (with the ´-d´ option), and returns a randomly selected quote
from the ´quotes´ file. The ´quotes´ file resides in either the ´/etc´
or ´/usr/local/etc´ directory, depending upon your operating system.
Normally it will reside in ´/usr/local/etc´. For more information on
the file system hierarchy, see hier(7).
DESCRIPTION
The ´qotd´ service gives you a random ´Quote of the Day´ from a data
file ´quotes´ that uses a simple text format. The ´quotes´ file format
separates individual quotes by a ´%´ on a line by itself. A final line
containing a ´%´ marks the end of the file, though it is not required.
Typically, the quotes file will look as follows:
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
Nathan Hale
%
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
%
"Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From
Mediocre Minds"
Albert Einstein
%
c.
You may add your own quotes at any point in the file provided that you
maintain the same file format. Carriage returns M should be stripped
out if you edit this file on a computer that adds these characters at
the end of a line.
USAGEquoted [-d|D][-p:port][#]
where
# is the optional quote number (beginning with zero) to display a spe‐
cific quote
and
-d instructs quoted to run as a daemon (do not use with inetd)
and
-D instructs quoted to simulate running as a daemon, but run from the
console, for debugging purposes.
and
-p:port instructs quoted to listen on a specific port th TCP and UDP.
This is only valid when either -d or -D is specified. The default port
is 17 td.
In ´inetd.conf´ you can add the following lines to invoke 'quoted' via
inetd:
qotd stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/quoted
qotd dgram udp wait nobody /usr/local/bin/quoted
SEE ALSOinetd(1)1.0 22 November 2004 QUOTED(1)
