NAME

litterbox — IRC logger

DESCRIPTION

litterbox(1) is a TLS-only IRC logger. It logs events from IRC in a SQLite database, indexing messages for full-text search. It is intended for use with the IRC bouncer pounce, but can also be used independently as a logging bot.

litterbox provides the scoop(1) command-line query utility. A web interface for litterbox is provided by scooper. Some formats of plain text logs can be imported into the litterbox database with unscoop(1).

INSTALLING

litterbox requires SQLite3 and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL. It targets FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux.

./configure
make all
sudo make install

If installing libtls manually to /usr/local, for example, make sure /usr/local/lib appears in /etc/ld.so.conf or /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* and be sure to run ldconfig(8) once the library is installed. Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH for ./configure to find it.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

On FreeBSD and OpenBSD the recommended way to run litterbox is with the process supervisor catsit.

FILES

database.h

database functions and schema

litterbox.c

IRC logging

scoop.c

query building and output formatting

unscoop.c

log file processing

config.c

getopt_long(3)-integrated configuration parsing

xdg.c

XDG base directories

CONTRIBUTING

The upstream URL of this project is ⟨https://git.causal.agency/litterbox⟩. Contributions in any form can be sent to <list+litterbox@causal.agency>. For sending patches by email, see ⟨https://git-send-email.io⟩.

Monetary contributions can be donated via Liberapay.

SEE ALSO

litterbox(1), scoop(1), unscoop(1)

• IRC bouncer: pounce
• Web interface: scooper

• June McEnroe, IRC Suite, https://text.causal.agency/010-irc-suite.txt, June 19, 2020.