# clinte [](https://builds.sr.ht/~gbmor/clinte?) [](https://travis-ci.com/gbmor/clinte) [](https://codecov.io/gh/gbmor/clinte)
Command-line community notice board for public-access UNIX systems. Post text-only notes for other users to see.
## Features
- Username is tagged based on the executing user
- Shows the 15 most recent posts in descending order
- Able to edit or delete your own posts
- Title <= 30 chars
- Body <= 500 chars
- Calls `$EDITOR` when creating or modifying the body of a post
- If `$EDITOR` is unset, calls `nano`
- Stores posts in JSON
- Uses advisory locking via `flock(2)` to synchronize access to the posts file
[](https://github.com/gbmor/clinte/blob/master/assets/clinte.png)
## Installation
Clone the repository and jump into the directory:
```
$ git clone git://github.com/gbmor/clinte.git
...
$ cd clinte
```
Run the makefile and install:
```
$ make
...
...Done!
$ sudo make install
```
## Upgrading
**Note:** v1.0.0 used sqlite3, which presented some issues. v2.x uses a json structure for posts,
as this will be safer on a multi-user system. When upgrading from v1.0.0 to v2.x, you won't be
able to save the posts without using a third-party tool to dump the `posts` table to json, and
manually adjusting it to fit the expected format (which can be seen in the included `clinte.json`).
*If upgrading from v1.0.0 -> v2.x, do a fresh install, including removing the database directory
`/usr/local/clinte`. The following applies to upgrading when already running at least v2.0.0*
```
$ make update
$ make
$ make install
```
This will:
* checkout `master`
* pull / rebase changes from upstream
* checkout the latest tag
* rebuild
* replace the `clinte` binary, but leave the posts file untouched.
## Usage
Issuing the program name itself will list
the currently available posts, like in the screenshot above.
**Display recent posts**
```
$ clinte
```
**Create a post**
```
$ clinte post
```
`clinte` will then ask for the title of the post, and the body. The username will be
tagged automatically by your logged-in username, reflecting its intended use on
multi-user UNIX-like systems.
**Edit a post**
```
$ clinte update [id]
```
If the `[id]` argument is absent, `clinte` will ask for the ID number of the post.
If it's been authored by you, then you will be asked for the new title.
Your `$EDITOR` will be called, and will be populated with the previous body.
**Delete a post**
```
$ clinte delete [id]
```
If the `[id]` argument is absent, `clinte` asks for the numeric ID of the post to delete.
**Verbose logging**
```
$ clinte -v [post|update|delete] [id]
```
Use this flag if something's going wrong. Additional information will be written to
`/tmp/clinte_$USER.log** that will, hopefully, reveal the cause of the error.
**Line Wrapping**
```
$ clinte -l 80
```
Wraps posts at the given line length. Set to <10 to disable line wrapping. Defaults to 80.
## Notes
The file where the posts are stored, `/usr/local/clinte/clinte.json`, must be writeable by all
users on the system. Keep this in mind.
The main project is at [sr.ht/~gbmor/clinte](https://sr.ht/~gbmor/clinte), with a mirror at
[github.com/gbmor/clinte](https://github.com/gbmor/clinte). Please send patches to
[~gbmor/clinte@lists.sr.ht](mailto:~gbmor/clinte@lists.sr.ht). For more info on this workflow,
check out [git send-email](https://git-send-email.io)