=head1 NAME

simba

=head1 VERSION

0.8.4

=head1 SYNOPSIS

simba [-c|--config <configuration file] [--callbacks|-p] [--help|-h] [mirror_name]

=head1 PREREQUISITES

simba requires I<RoPkg::Simba>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

There are many institutions that offer mirroring
services to the community. Most of them use shell
scripts to synchronize content with the master servers.
This approach has some major limitations:

=over 4

=item Difficult maintenance

=item No useful reports

=item No data presented to the final user

=item and more

=back

Simba was created to be the mirroring tool and to
get more control over the mirrored content and (most
important) more control over the reports you can
generate using the mirrored content data. Using Simba,
you can:

=over 6

=item Create web pages with mirrors status

=item Create web pages with mirror details

=item Generate RSS feeds

=item Generate Google sitemaps

=item Generate rsync configuration files

=item and more

=back

Simba is extensible and has a dynamic plugin system.
If you have some knowledge of perl, you can write
your own plugins and extend Simba as you wish.

=head1 RUNNING

simba has a few command line parameters.

=head2 -c|--config

Expects the path to the configuration file

=head2 -p|--callbacks

Start the user defined callbacks

=head2 -h|--help

Shows this man page

The main documentation is available on the website
(http://simba.packages.ro). There you will find detailed
documentation, templates and a HOWTO.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<RoPkg::Simba::Mirror> L<RoPkg::Simba::Command> L<RoPkg::Simba::Exclude>
L<RoPkg::Simba::Mirrors> L<RoPkg::Simba::Commands> L<RoPkg::Simba::Excludes>

=head1 AUTHOR

Subredu Manuel <diablo@iasi.roedu.net>

=head1 LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 Subredu Manuel.  All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it 
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license.

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