Man page of BB-FINDHOST.CGI

# BB-FINDHOST.CGI

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Version Exp: 9 Aug 2006
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## NAME

bb-findhost.cgi - Hobbit CGI script to find hosts

## SYNOPSIS

bb-findhost.cgi?host=REGEX

## DESCRIPTION

bb-findhost.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the bb-findhost.sh CGI wrapper.

bb-findhost.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the "host=REGEX" parameter. The REGEX is a Posix regular expression (see regex(7) ) describing the hostnames to look for. A trailing wildcard is assumed on all hostnames - e.g. requesting the hostname "www" will match any host whose name begins with "www".

It then produces a single web page, listing all of the hosts that matched any of the hostnames, with links to the Hobbit webpages where they are located.

The output page lists hosts in the order they appear in the bb-hosts(5) file.

A sample web page implementing the search facility is included with bbgen, you access it via the URL /bb/help/bb-findhost.html.

## OPTIONS

--env=FILENAME
  Loads the environment from FILENAME before executing the CGI.

## FILES

$BBHOME/web/findhost_header
  HTML header file for the generated web page

$BBHOME/web/findhost_footer
  HTML footer file for the generated web page

$BBHOME/web/findhost_form
  Query form displayed when bb-findhost.cgi is called with no parameters.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

BBHOSTS
  bb-findhost.cgi uses the BBHOSTS environment variable to find the bb-hosts file listing all known hosts and their page locations.

BBHOME
  Used to locate the template files for the generated web pages.

## SEE ALSO

bbgen(1), bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5)

## Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
SEE ALSO

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