---
name: "simba"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "simba"
version: "0.8.4-6"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/simba"
---

# simba(8)

## NAME

simba

## VERSION

0\.8.4

## SYNOPSIS

simba \[-c\|--config \<configuration file\] \[--callbacks\|-p\] \[--help\|-h\] \[mirror\_name\]

## PREREQUISITES

simba requires *RoPkg::Simba*

## 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:

- Difficult maintenance

  - No useful reports

  - No data presented to the final user

  - and more

  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:

- Create web pages with mirrors status

  - Create web pages with mirror details

  - Generate RSS feeds

  - Generate Google sitemaps

  - Generate rsync configuration files

  - and more

  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.

## RUNNING

simba has a few command line parameters.

### -c\|--config

Expects the path to the configuration file

### -p\|--callbacks

Start the user defined callbacks

### -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.

## SEE ALSO

RoPkg::Simba::Mirror RoPkg::Simba::Command RoPkg::Simba::Exclude RoPkg::Simba::Mirrors RoPkg::Simba::Commands RoPkg::Simba::Excludes

## AUTHOR

Subredu Manuel \<diablo@iasi.roedu.net\>

## 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.