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author | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2018-09-01 23:07:26 +0200 |
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committer | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2018-09-01 23:07:26 +0200 |
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Fix a few things (formatting, wrong page, etc) in the doc
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diff --git a/doc/admin.rst b/doc/admin.rst index af67042..a5850a7 100644 --- a/doc/admin.rst +++ b/doc/admin.rst @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ all XMPP stanza with a `to` JID on that domain will be forwarded to biboumi by the XMPP server, and biboumi will only send messages coming from that hostname. +To cleanly shutdown the component, send a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal to it. +It will send messages to all connected IRC and XMPP servers to indicate a +reason why the users are being disconnected. Biboumi exits when the end of +communication is acknowledged by all IRC servers. If one or more IRC +servers do not respond, biboumi will only exit if it receives the same +signal again or if a 2 seconds delay has passed. + Configuration ============= @@ -106,8 +113,8 @@ The name of the database to use. This option can only be used if biboumi has been compiled with a database support (Sqlite3 and/or PostgreSQL). If the value begins with the postgresql scheme, “postgresql://” or “postgres://”, then biboumi will try to connect to the PostgreSQL database -specified by the URI. See -https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#idm46428693970032 +specified by the URI. See `the PostgreSQL doc +<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#idm46428693970032>`_ for all possible values. For example the value could be “postgresql://user:secret@localhost”. If the value does not start with the postgresql scheme, then it specifies a filename that will be opened with diff --git a/doc/user.rst b/doc/user.rst index 027d30f..505e3b9 100644 --- a/doc/user.rst +++ b/doc/user.rst @@ -21,13 +21,6 @@ There is no need to have multiple nicknames and multiple connections to be able to take part in a conversation (or idle) in a channel from a mobile client while the desktop client is still connected, for example. -To cleanly shutdown the component, send a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal to it. -It will send messages to all connected IRC and XMPP servers to indicate a -reason why the users are being disconnected. Biboumi exits when the end of -communication is acknowledged by all IRC servers. If one or more IRC -servers do not respond, biboumi will only exit if it receives the same -signal again or if a 2 seconds delay has passed. - .. note:: If you use a biboumi that you have no control on: remember that the administrator of the gateway you use is able to view all your IRC conversations, whether you’re using encryption or not. This is exactly as @@ -65,11 +58,17 @@ IRC nicknames are case-insensitive, this means that the nicknames toto, Toto, tOtO and TOTO all represent the same IRC user. This means you can talk to the user toto, and this will work. -Also note that some IRC nicknames or channels may contain characters that are -not allowed in the local part of a JID (for example '@'). If you need to send a -message to a nick containing such a character, you can use a jid like -``%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com/AnnoyingNickn@me``, because the JID -``AnnoyingNickn@me%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com`` would not work. +Also note that some IRC nicknames or channels may contain characters that +are not allowed in the local part of a JID (for example '@'). If you need +to send a message to a nick containing such a character, you can use a jid +like ``%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com/AnnoyingNickn@me``, because +the JID ``AnnoyingNickn@me%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com`` would not +work. This “weird” JID is just using the fact that you can send a private +message through any room (even a room with an empty name) because, on IRC, +a query does not go through any room at all, it’s just server-wide. So, +sending a message to #doesnotexist%irc@biboumi/User is exactly the same as +sending one to %irc@biboumi/User. + And if you need to address a channel that contains such invalid characters, you have to use `jid-escaping <http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0106.html#escaping>`_, and replace each of these characters with their escaped version, for example to @@ -358,9 +357,6 @@ disconnect-user Only available to the administrator. The user provides a list of JIDs, and a quit message. All the selected users are disconnected from all the IRC servers to which they were connected, using the provided quit message. -Sending SIGINT to biboumi is equivalent to using this command by selecting -all the connected JIDs and using the “Gateway shutdown” quit message, -except that biboumi does not exit when using this ad-hoc command. disconnect-from-irc-servers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -374,7 +370,7 @@ disconnect themselves. configure ^^^^^^^^^ -Lets each user configure some options that applies globally. +Lets each user configure some options that apply globally. The provided configuration form contains these fields: - **Record History**: whether or not history messages should be saved in @@ -386,12 +382,12 @@ The provided configuration form contains these fields: whether or not their specific value is true or false. This option is true by default for everyone if the `persistent_by_default` configuration option is true, otherwise it’s false. See below for more details on what a - persistent channel is. This value is + persistent channel is. On a server JID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -E.g on the JID chat.freenode.org@biboumi.example.com +.. note:: For example on the JID chat.freenode.org@biboumi.example.com configure ^^^^^^^^^ @@ -416,9 +412,9 @@ server. The provided configuration form contains these fields: available if biboumi is configured with realname_customization to false. - **In encoding**: The incoming encoding. Any received message that is not - proper UTF-8 will be converted will be converted from the configured - In encoding into UTF-8. If the conversion fails at some point, some - characters will be replaced by the placeholders. + proper UTF-8 will be converted from the configured In encoding into UTF-8. + If the conversion fails at some point, some characters will be replaced by + the placeholders. - **Out encoding**: Currently ignored. - **After-connection IRC commands**: Raw IRC commands that will be sent one by one to the server immediately after the connection has been @@ -473,7 +469,7 @@ detailed list of which resource is in which channel. On a channel JID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -E.g on the JID #test%chat.freenode.org@biboumi.example.com +.. note:: For example on the JID #test%chat.freenode.org@biboumi.example.com configure ^^^^^^^^^ @@ -486,20 +482,20 @@ encoding is not specified for a channel, the encoding configured in the server applies. The provided configuration form contains these fields: - **In encoding**: see the option with the same name in the server configuration -form. + form. - **Out encoding**: Currently ignored. - **Persistent**: If set to true, biboumi will stay in this channel even when -all the XMPP resources have left the room. I.e. it will not send a PART -command, and will stay idle in the channel until the connection is -forcibly closed. If a resource comes back in the room again, and if -the archiving of messages is enabled for this room, the client will -receive the messages that where sent in this channel. This option can be -used to make biboumi act as an IRC bouncer. + all the XMPP resources have left the room. I.e. it will not send a PART + command, and will stay idle in the channel until the connection is + forcibly closed. If a resource comes back in the room again, and if + the archiving of messages is enabled for this room, the client will + receive the messages that where sent in this channel. This option can be + used to make biboumi act as an IRC bouncer. - **Record History**: whether or not history messages should be saved in -the database, for this specific channel. If the value is “unset” (the -default), then the value configured globally is used. This option is there, -for example, to be able to enable history recording globally while disabling -it for a few specific “private” channels. + the database, for this specific channel. If the value is “unset” (the + default), then the value configured globally is used. This option is there, + for example, to be able to enable history recording globally while disabling + it for a few specific “private” channels. Raw IRC messages ---------------- |