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.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt HONK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm honk
.Nd honk administration
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
daemon processes messages from other federated servers.
This is the admin manual.
For user operation, see
.Xr honk 1 .
.Ss SETUP
.Pp
Set up a TLS reverse proxy.
.Nm
can listen on TCP or unix sockets, but will not terminate TLS.
https is a required component for federation.
.Pp
Make sure to pass the Host header, if necessary (as for nginx).
.Bd -literal -offset indent
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
.Ed
.Ss BUILD
Building
.Nm
requires a go compiler and libsqlite.
On
.Ox
this is the go and sqlite3 packages.
Other platforms may require additional development libraries or headers
to be installed.
Run make.
Please be patient.
Even on fast machines, building from source can take several seconds.
.Ss INIT
Run the
.Ic init
command.
.Dl ./honk init
This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
the initial user.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
username: (desired username)
password: (desired password)
listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.)
servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com)
.Ed
.Ss OPERATION
Run honk.
.Dl date; ./honk >> log 2>&1
Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file.
.Ss CUSTOMIZATION
Add custom memes (stickers) to the
.Pa memes
directory.
Image and video files are supported.
.Pp
Add custom emus (emoji) to the
.Pa emus
directory.
Image files are supported.
.Pp
Site CSS may be overridden by creating a
.Pa views/local.css
file.
.Pp
A custom message me be set by editing the database.
(Sorry.)
.Dl insert into config values ('servermsg', 'message');
.Pp
The
.Pa views/about.html
page doesn't change too frequently.
It should be safe to edit.
.Ss ADMIN
New users can be added with the
.Ic adduser
command.
This is discouraged.
.Dl ./honk adduser
.Pp
Passwords may be reset with the
.Ic chpass
command.
.Dl ./honk chpass username
.Ss MAINTENANCE
The database may grow large over time.
The
.Ic cleanup
command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days.
.Ss UPGRADE
Stop the old honk process.
.Dl pkill honk
Backup the database.
.Dl cp honk.db backup.db
Perform the upgrade with the
.Ic upgrade
command.
.Dl ./honk upgrade
Restart.
.Dl ./honk
.Pp
There's also a
.Pa blob.db
file which is important to backup and restore.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
Image processing and scaling requires considerable memory.
It is recommended to adjust the datasize ulimit to at least 1GB.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 1 ,
.Xr honk 1
.Sh CAVEATS
There's no online upgrade capability.
Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.