What is this stuff?
A blog, short for Web log, is a community site where users post logs
of their day to day activities.
The Simple Blog is here for developers (and others) to post status of
their projects, or just rant and rave about whatever is on their mind.
Consider it a free speech area without the brick pedastals.
What do I need to use this?
To read blog entries, you just need a web server - which is obvious if
you're reading this now. To post entries, you need a blog client.
Currently there is only 1 blog client - logit, a perl script designed to run on
Unix systems.
Installing logit
Just copy logit to any directory listed in your $PATH. To you use it, just
type logit -i. This will create a local log file (under
$HOME/lib/logs) as well as submit the entry to the blog server.
Configuring your environment
To use logit, you need to set a couple of environment variables.
- EDITOR - This variable tells logit which text editor to launch
to create your log entries. The editor needs to be able to write ordinary text
files. Logit will take care of parsing information from that file for the
blog server.
- PAGER - This variable tells logit which pager to use when
viewing your log files locally. This way you can use logit -v or
logit -vp (for the previous days log) to view log files in their text
format, ie without the web interface.
To see the full range of options, try logit -?.
Registering with the Web interface
Before you can submit entries to the blog server, you need to register with
the blog. This is a straight forward process and is only required to match
your submissions with the directories where log information is stored. It
also makes it easier to display useful information on the Web site.
That's it. Try it! It's fun!