NAME

       gnunet-auto-share - a command line tool to automatically share an entire directory with other users

SYNOPSIS

       gnunet-auto-share [OPTIONS] DIRNAME

DESCRIPTION

       In  order to share files with other GNUnet users, the files must first be made available to GNUnet.  This
       tool can be used  to  automatically  share  all  files  from  a  certain  directory.   The  program  will
       periodically  scan  the  directory  for changes and publish files that are new or that changed on GNUnet.
       Which files have already been shared is remembered in a ".auto-share" file in the shared directory.   You
       can  run  the  tool  by  hand  or  automatically  by adding the respective options to your configuration.
       gnunet-auto-share has many options in common with gnunet-publish, but can only be used to index files.

       You can use automatic meta-data extraction (based on libextractor).

       -c FILENAME, --config=FILENAME Use alternate config file (if this option is not specified, the default is
       ~/.config/gnunet.conf).

       -D, --disable-extractor
              Disable use of GNU libextractor for finding additional keywords and metadata.

       -h, --help
              Print a brief help page with all the options.

       -L LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
              Change the loglevel.  Possible values for LOGLEVEL are ERROR, WARNING, INFO and DEBUG.

       -p PRIORITY, --prio=PRIORITY
              Executive summary: You probably don't need it.

              Set  the  priority of the published content (default: 365).  If the local database is full, GNUnet
              will discard the content with the lowest ranking.  Note that ranks change over time  depending  on
              popularity.   The default should be high enough to preserve the locally published content in favor
              of content that migrates from other peers.

       -r LEVEL, --replication=LEVEL
              Set the desired replication level.  If CONTENT_PUSHING is set to YES, GNUnet will push each  block
              (for the file) LEVEL times to other peers before doing normal "random" replication of all content.
              This option can be used to push some content out  into  the  network  harder.  Note  that  pushing
              content  LEVEL  times  into  the  network  does  not  guarantee  that there will actually be LEVEL
              replicas.

       -v, --version
              Print the version number.

       -V, --verbose
              Be verbose.  Using this option causes gnunet-publish to print progress information and at the  end
              the file identification that can be used to download the file from GNUnet.

SETTING ANONYMITY LEVEL

       The  -a  option can be used to specify additional anonymity constraints. If set to 0, GNUnet will publish
       the file non-anonymously and in fact sign the advertisement for the file using your peer's  private  key.
       This  will  allow  other  users  to  download the file as fast as possible, including using non-anonymous
       methods (DHT, direct transfer).  If you set it to 1 (default), you use  the  standard  anonymous  routing
       algorithm  (which  does  not  explicitly leak your identity).  However, a powerful adversary may still be
       able to perform traffic analysis (statistics) to over time infer data about your identity.  You can  gain
       better  privacy  by  specifying  a higher level of anonymity, which increases the amount of cover traffic
       your own traffic will get, at the expense of performance.  Note that regardless of  the  anonymity  level
       you choose, peers that cache content in the network always use anonymity level 1.

       The  definition  of the ANONYMITY LEVEL is the following.  0 means no anonymity is required.  Otherwise a
       value of 'v' means that 1 out of v bytes of "anonymous" traffic can be from the local user, leaving 'v-1'
       bytes  of  cover  traffic  per byte on the wire.  Thus, if GNUnet routes n bytes of messages from foreign
       peers (using anonymous routing), it may originate n/(v-1) bytes of data  in  the  same  time-period.  The
       time-period is twice the average delay that GNUnet defers forwarded queries.

       The  default  is  1  and  this  should be fine for most users.  Also notice that if you choose very large
       values, you may end up having no throughput at all, especially if many of your fellow GNUnet-peers all do
       the same.

EXAMPLES

       Basic example

       Share a directory "$HOME/gnunet-share/":

        # gnunet-auto-share $HOME/gnunet-share/ &

       Basic configuration

       Share a directory "$HOME/gnunet-share/":

        [ARM]
        DEFAULTSERVICES = gnunet-auto-share # other default services here

        [gnunet-auto-share]
        OPTIONS = $HOME/gnunet-share

FILES

       ~/.config/gnunet.conf
              GNUnet configuration file

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <https://gnunet.org/bugs/> or by sending electronic mail to <gnunet-developers@gnu.org>

SEE ALSO

       gnunet-fs-gtk(1), gnunet-publish(1), gnunet-search(1), gnunet-download(1), gnunet.conf(5), extract(1)