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@@ -502,6 +502,26 @@ All the daemons write their process IDs (pids) to /var/run/ by default. This can be useful for starting, stopping, and monitoring the daemons. +Twitter Friends Syncing +----------------------- + +As of Laconica 0.6.3, users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe +to my Twitter friends here" under the Twitter tab) to have Laconica +attempt to locate and subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on +Twitter who also have accounts on your Laconica system, and who have +previously set up a link for automatically posting notices to Twitter. + +Optionally, there is a script (./scripts/synctwitterfriends.php), meant +to be run periodically from a job scheduler (e.g.: cron under Unix), to +look for new additions to users' friends lists. Note that the friends +syncing only subscribes users to each other, it does not unsubscribe +users when they stop following each other on Twitter. + +Sample cron job: + +# Update Twitter friends subscriptions every half hour +0,30 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/laconica/scripts/synctwitterfriends.php>&/dev/null + Sitemaps -------- @@ -589,7 +609,7 @@ also download more up-to-date .po files there, if you so desire. Backups ------- -There is no builtin system for doing backups in Laconica. You can make +There is no built-in system for doing backups in Laconica. You can make backups of a working Laconica system by backing up the database and the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump (http://ur1.ca/7xo) and to backup the Web directory, try tar. |