HControl - Hamster Control

How to ... start HControl?

 

Pages

Log

Displays new logfile entries on HService computer.

Context menu of the list allows stopping the scrolling, copying the list to clipboard and saving the list to a file.

Log (E.+W.)

Displays logfile entries of type "Errors" and "Warnings". This page is only visible if such log entries were recorded.

Context menu of the list allows clearing the list.

Tasks

Displays the currently running tasks on HService computer. Tasks listed here are maintenance tasks (e. g. purging), transfer tasks (e. g. pulling news) or currently running scripts.

Context menu of the list allows stopping the selected task, all scripts or all tasks.

Scripts

Displays all available scripts and modules on HService computer.

Messages

Displays the outgoing mail and news messages, and, if any,  errored messages on HService computer.

Server

Displays the current server states and a list of currently connected clients.

Newsgroups

Displays a list of all newsgroups with their pulls.

 

Command Line Parameters

Some command line parameters are available with HControl:

-nologin

Starts HControl without login to HService.

-server <server_name | server_IP>

Computer name or IP hosting HService.

-port <number>

HService RECO server listening port number.

-user <login_name>

HService RECO server login username.

-pass <login_password>

HService RECO server login password.

-exit

Generally used with -script, exits HControl immediately after having started the command line script.

-script <script_name | module_name> [<1st_parameter> [2nd_parameter> ... ] ]

Starts the specified script or module with its parameter(s), if any.
Name and parameters must be separated by one space or tab.
This parameter must be the last parameter for script-parameters process purpose.
The script/module path is either fully qualified or relative to the Hamster scripts/modules directory
(See Application Settings file, entries asPathScripts and asPathModules) without leading backslash.

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