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                                 jlj 1.9

                             2001 Sep 02

                         jsl@absynth.com
        http://jerronimo.livejournal.com



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                      Getting it running
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Just some notes about configuring JLJ...

edit the enclosed '.livejournal.rc' file.  You will need to set your 
username and password.  There are prompts for most everything else, 
but not your username and password.

You should see something like this:

    user: yourusername
    password: yourpassword

change the text to read your correct username and password.  For example, 
if your username is "bunnyfoobar", and your password is "ilikecheese", then
those two lines should read:

    user: bunnyfoobar
    password: ilikecheese

The rest of the things in that file are fairly self explanatory, but i'll
briefly cover them here just in case. ;)

First of all, you may notice that there are multiple items on each of 
the lines.  JLJ only looks at the first item on each of the lines.  so if
you were to see:

    blah:  yes no

then the setting for 'blah' would be 'yes'.

Be sure to copy the .livejournal.rc file into your home directory, and make
it only readable by you.  ie: 
	chmod 600 .livejournal.rc
	mv .livejournal.rc ~

(assuming you're on a unix system)

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Btw, thanks to Adam T. Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> for the proxy code!
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                      Configuration File
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user: username

    your username for livejournal


password: password

    your password for livejournal


archive: yes no

    save a copy of each of your messages on your local system


archive dir: %s/.jlj

    where to save aside the archived copy.  %s gets replaced with $HOME
    assuming it's set in your shell. (It usually is.)  In the above 
    example, it'll save aside your entries in the ~/.jlj directory.  This
    should be an explicit pathname, not a relative path.  No idea what'll
    happen if it's a relative path.


security: public private friends prompt

    What 'security level' to use.  'public' 'private' and 'friends' will 
    always post under those security levels.  'prompt' will ask you 
    every time you run JLJ.  Generally you're probably going to want 
    'public'.  NOTE: 'friends' will be visible to _all_ of your friends,
    rather than to a specific friend group.


preformatted: yes no

    If this is set to 'yes', the server will assume you've formatted
    the text yourself, and will do nothing.  If it is set to 'no', it
    will add line breaks at the end of every line.


mood prompt: yes no

    Ask what mood you're in.  Eventually they're will be a list of 
    standard moods, but for now, you get to just type in your mood.


music prompt: yes no

    Ask what music you're listening to.


picture prompt: yes no

    Display a list of your pictures, and ask for which you want.


community prompt: yes no

    Display a list of communities you belong to, and ask for which to post to.


proxy: no yes
    
    Set to yes if you're using a proxy for web connections.


proxy host: yourproxy.dom.tld

    Set it to the address of the web proxy server.


proxy port: 80

    which port on the proxy server is used.

