piktd.conf
(NOTE: Some of the techniques shown or described on this page--marked in purple--require new features in the latest official PIKT 1.19.0 release (pikt-current.tar.gz) that are unavailable in any previous version.)
Every time the piktd (re)starts, it reads the piktd.conf file in the =piktdir/etc directory. If it fails to find =piktdir/etc/piktd.conf, it looks for /etc/piktd.conf, then /etc/pikt/piktd.conf, then /usr/local/etc/piktd.conf, and finally /usr/local/etc/pikt/piktd.conf. If it doesn't find piktd.conf in any of those places, the program will abort.
Here is the format for the piktd.conf file:
<timings> [<drift>] [<nicecmd>] =piktdir/bin/pikt [-T] [+M <mailcmd>] [+L <lpcmd>] +A <alert> ...For example, a typical piktd.conf file might look something like this:
45 7,15,23 * * 5,6 1 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /pikt/bin/pikt +M "/usr/bin/mailx -s 'PIKT Alert on lyons: Critical' brahms\@hamburg.pikt.org" +A Critical 30 7-23/4 * * 0-4 1 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /pikt/bin/pikt +M "/usr/bin/mailx -s 'PIKT Alert on lyons: Urgent' brahms\@hamburg.pikt.org" +L "/usr/bin/lp lp" +A Urgent 30 7-23/4 * * 5,6 1 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /pikt/bin/pikt +M "/usr/bin/mailx -s 'PIKT Alert on lyons: Urgent' brahms\@hamburg.pikt.org" +L "/usr/bin/lp lp" +A Urgent 0 7-23 * * 0-4 1 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /pikt/bin/pikt +M "/usr/bin/mailx -s 'PIKT Alert on lyons: EMERGENCY' brahms\@hamburg.pikt.org" +L "/usr/bin/lp lp" +A EMERGENCY ...Although you might edit the piktd.conf directly, under normal operations a 'piktc -e' (enablement) command will do this automatically for you.
'piktc -e' adds lines to piktd.conf, and 'piktc -d' removes them. For example, 'piktc -ev +A Critical' would add all Critical alert lines, while 'piktc -dv +A Critical' would remove them. Ordinarily, you would rewrite your entire piktd.conf file with a global enablement:
# piktc -ev +A all +H all
'piktc -T' appends '-T' to any pikt command string that piktc writes to piktd.conf, for example:
0 * * * 0,6 5 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /pikt/bin/pikt -T +M "/bin/mailx -a 'From: piktadmin' -s 'PIKT Alert on cologne: EMERGENCY' biber\@pikt.org" +L "/usr/bin/lp lp" +A EMERGENCYTestpiktd ignores lines beginning with the comment character '#'. ('piktc -e' would never add commented-out lines; only a manual edit of piktd.conf would do this.)
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