I haven't posted anything on TEOTWAWKI Net in a while so here's an update:
I've been working on the USB sync manager which is simply a script that looks for mount points being added in a certain directory. it then scans that mountpoint for spooled up batch files containing news articles.
Once it finds the batched up articles it reads them in and deposits it's own articles onto the mounted device. once it is done processing all found mount points it will pop up a GUI (optional) listing all found mount points with an unmount button next to each one. This menu will disappear as soon as it starts processing again. The menu will not pop up if there are no more mount points left in the directory it looks in.
USB keys left plugged in will accumulate any new articles that arrive either by the network or by other USB keys being plugged in.
What I just wrote about is not just an idea but is already working now and is in CVS. I just got a lot of this working over the weekend and some more tonight.
I plan on making some changes to how the system is packaged and splitting some things out of start.sh and writing some new documentation to put in the webroot before I build more packages. At that point I might have my first numbered release. Stay tuned.
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