Advanced Usage

Options

You have the option of starting your rapClient desktop client with the rapclient command. The following options are supported:

rapclient -h or rapclient --help
Displays all command options.

The other options are:

--logwindow
Opens a window displaying log output.
--logfile <filename>
Write log output to the file specified. To write to stdout, specify - as the filename.
--logdir <name>
Writes each synchronization log output in a new file in the specified directory.
--logexpire <hours>
Removes logs older than the value specified (in hours). This command is used with --logdir.
--logflush
Clears (flushes) the log file after each write action.
--confdir <dirname>
Uses the specified configuration directory.

Configuration File

The RAP Client reads a configuration file. You can locate this configuration file as follows:

On Linux distributions:
$HOME/.local/share/data/rapclient/rapclient.cfg
On Microsoft Windows systems:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\rapclient\rapclient.cfg
On MAC OS X systems:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/rapclient

The configuration file contains settings using the Microsoft Windows .ini file format. You can overwrite changes using the RAP Client configuration dialog.

Note

Use caution when making changes to the RAP Client configuration file. Incorrect settings can produce unintended results.

You can change the following configuration settings (must be under the [rapclient] section)

  • remotePollInterval (default: 30000) – Specifies the poll time for the remote repository in milliseconds.
  • maxLogLines (default: 20000) – Specifies the maximum number of log lines displayed in the log window.

rapClient Command Line Client

The RAP Client packages contain a command line client, rapclientcmd, that can be used to synchronize RAP files to client machines.

rapclientcmd performs a single sync run and then exits the synchronization process. In this manner, rapclientcmd processes the differences between client and server directories and propagates the files to bring both repositories to the same state. Contrary to the GUI-based client, rapclientcmd does not repeat synchronizations on its own. It also does not monitor for file system changes.

To invoke rapclientcmd, you must provide the local and the remote repository URL using the following command:

rapclientcmd [OPTIONS...] sourcedir rapclienturl

where sourcedir is the local directory and rapurl is the server URL.

Other command line switches supported by rapclientcmd include the following:

--user, -u [user]
Use user as the login name.
--password, -p [password]
Use password as the password.
-n
Use netrc (5) for login.
--non-interactive
Do not prompt for questions.
--silent, --s
Inhibits verbose log output.
--trust
Trust any SSL certificate, including invalid ones.
--httpproxy  http://[user@pass:]<server>:<port>
Uses server as HTTP proxy.
--nonshib
Uses Non Shibboleth WebDAV Authentication
--davpath [path]
Overrides the WebDAV Path with path
--exclude [file]
Exclude list file
--unsyncedfolders [file]
File containing the list of unsynced folders (selective sync)
--max-sync-retries [n]
Retries maximum n times (defaults to 3)
-h
Sync hidden files, do not ignore them

Credential Handling

rapclientcmd uses the credentials of the GUI synchronization client. If no client is configured, or if you choose to use a different user to synchronize, you can specify the user password setting with the usual URL pattern. For example:

$ rapclientcmd / https://admin:secret@server/rapclint/remote.php/webdav/

To synchronize the RAP directory Music to the local directory media/music, through a proxy listening on port 8080, and on a gateway machine using IP address 172.16.0.100, the command line would be:

$ rapclientcmd --httpproxy http://172.16.0.100:8080 \
              $HOME/media/music \
              https://server/rapclient/remote.php/webdav/Music

rapclientcmd will prompt for the user name and password, unless they have been specified on the command line or -n has been passed.