grid-updates is a Python script intended to help keep Tahoe-LAFS nodes' configurations up-to-date. It can retrieve lists of introducers [1] as well as news feeds from the Tahoe grid. This is useful for any public grid that relies solely on volunteers.
On some public grids (especially the one on I2P) all nodes, even introducers, are run by volunteers and may disappear at any given time. Maintaining a list of all known introducers and distributing it to all participants of the grid will ensure the best possible connectivity for everyone.
Furthermore, there is no reliable way to contact node operators. This is why we want to encourage users to subscribe to a news feed relevant to their Tahoe grid. We hope it's going to be a way to inform unknown node operators about their wrongly configured nodes, necessary updates, recommended configuration changes and such.
grid-updates can be downloaded from any of the following locations.
See INSTALL.html for information on how to install grid-updates.
grid-updates was designed as a cron job script but can be run manually just as well.
Run this script with either --sync-introducers or --merge-introducers to make sure your Tahoe-LAFS node will know about as many introducers as possible.
If you also want to receive the news feed, add the --download-news action. It will fetch and display (email if run by a cron job) the news feed from the grid. It will also allow you to view the news your browser (using --patch-tahoe even in Tahoe's web console) and to be notified of news by a regular news reader using an Atom news feed. Following the grid-updates news is recommended.
--repair is another subscription-based service. It will download a list of shares and check/repair them. This is supposed to make it easier for a community or group of people to support each other's Tahoe shares. (The default subscription includes shares such as the DeepWiki on the I2P grid.)
Please refer to the man page for detailed usage information.
0 0 * * * grid-updates --sync-introducers --download-news --check-version 30 0 */2 * * grid-updates --repair
grid-updates has been released into the public domain. You may do what you wish with it.
For Bug reports and support join #tahoe-lafs on Irc2P or send an email.
| [1] | You need at least Tahoe version 1.8.3 patched for multiple introducer support. See <http://killyourtv.i2p/tag/multiple_introducer/> (Inline news-feeds are not yet supported in Tahoe 1.10) |