Ubuntu Manpage: gnunet-auto-share — a command line tool to automatically share an entire directory with

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

     gnunet-auto-share [-a LEVEL | --anonymity=LEVEL] [-c FILENAME | --config=FILENAME]
                       [-D | --disable-extractor] [-d | --disable-creation-time] [-h | --help]
                       [-L LOGLEVEL | --loglevel=LOGLEVEL] [-l FILENAME | --logfile=FILENAME]
                       [-p PRIORITY | --prio=PRIORITY] [-r LEVEL | --replication=LEVEL]
                       [-V | --verbose] [-v | --version] ⟨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). The options are as
follows:

-a LEVEL | --anonymity=LEVEL
This option can be used to specify additional anonymity constraints. The default is
1. 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 (discovery via DHT and CADET 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 discovery your identity. You can gain better
privacy by specifying a higher level of anonymity (using values above 1). This
tells FS that it must hide your own requests in equivalent-looking cover traffic.
This should confound an adversaries traffic analysis, increasing the time and effort
it would take to discover your identity. However, it also can significantly reduce
performance, as your requests will be delayed until sufficient cover traffic is
available. The specific numeric value (for anonymity levels above 1) is simple:
Given an anonymity level L (above 1), each request FS makes on your behalf must be
hidden in L-1 equivalent requests of cover traffic (traffic your peer routes for
others) in the same time-period. The time-period is twice the average delay by
which GNUnet artificially delays traffic. Note that regardless of the anonymity
level you choose, peers that cache content in the network always use anonymity level
1.

-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.

-d | --disable-creation-time
Disable adding the creation time to the metadata of the uploaded file.

-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.

-l FILENAME | --logfile=FILENAME
Configure logging to write logs to FILENAME.

-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 | --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.

-v | --version
Print the version number.

EXAMPLES

   Basic example
     $ gnunet-auto-share $HOME/gnunet-share/ &

     Share a directory $HOME/gnunet-share/

   Basic configuration
     $ Share a directory $HOME/gnunet-share/

           [gnunet-auto-share]
           OPTIONS = $HOME/gnunet-share
           IMMEDIATE_START = YES # start this service when the peer starts

FILES

     ~/.config/gnunet.conf GNUnet configuration file

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