This program is named after the ubiquitous reporter Rita Skeeter from the Harry Potter novels. Like Rita, this program will LISTEN (to postgres) and PUBlish (to zeromq).
We at SpiderOak developed this to reduce the number of open database connectons. Instead of every program opening a database connection to listen for Postgresql notifications, they can subscribe to a channel on the PUB server.
Our servers are currently running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. Skeeter is mainstream code, so it should run on any reasonably current Linux.
skeeter [-c=<path-to-config-file>]
skeeter will look for the config file at ${HOME}/.skeeterrc by default.
Development build:
make dev
Production build
make
- The development build is good for use with valgrind
- The production build sets NDEBUG which, among other things, causes logging to syslog.
We use Postgresql 9.x. In addition to the server, you will need the development
library. On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
We use a simple ZeroMQ PUB server. You will need the ZeroMQ development
library. On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev.
Skeeter uses a config file to define parameters that are site specific, or
tunable. By default the config file is located at ${HOME}/.skeeterrc
but you can override this from the command line.
We have included a sample config file, skeeterrc with comments
documentating the options.
We don't have any unit tests (sorry Zed). We do have a test framework consisting of two python programs:
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test_skeeter_notifyer.pyThis program reads the skeeterrc config file and posts random notifications to the database.
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test_skeeter_subscriber.pyThis program reads the skeeterrc config file and subscribes to the 0mq PUB socket. It logs reported events to stdout.
This code is heavily influenced by Zed Shaw's 'Learn C the Hard Way'
dbg.h is copied directly from LCTHW also, the use of bstrings
You should read the truly excellent 0mq Guide
This is an open source project from SpiderOak
send mail to Doug Fort dougfort@spideroak.com