Available Lamson Commands

The following is also available by running lamson help and you can get the help for each individual command with lamson help -for COMMAND replacing COMMAND with one of these listed below.

The format for the printed options show default options as an actual setting, and required options as a CAPITALIZED setting you must give. For example, in the send command:

lamson send -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 1 -sender EMAIL -to EMAIL -subject STR -body STR -file False

The options -port, -host, -debug, and -file have default settings, but -sender, -to, -subject and -body require a STRing or EMAIL. Notice also that -file defaults to False which you can change by just including -file (that toggles it true).


Lamson help:

start:

    Runs a lamson server out of the current directory:

    lamson start -pid ./run/smtp.pid -FORCE False -chroot False -cd "." -umask False -uid False -gid False
    
web:

    Starts a very simple files only web server for easy testing of applications
    that need to make some HTML files as the result of their operation.
    If you need more than this then use a real web server.

    lamson web -basedir "." -port 8888 -host '127.0.0.1'

    This command doesn't exit so you can view the logs it prints out.
    
spell:

    Runs the PyEnchant spell checker on the given file.  Use this to train
    the spell checker for unit test runs when new words show up.

    lamson spell -langauge en_US -- [files]

    It will run interactively and if you perform an edit on the file it will save
    your changes back to the file and make a backup named with .bak.
    
send:

    Sends an email to someone as a test message.
    See the sendmail command for a sendmail replacement.
    
    lamson send -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 1 \
            -sender EMAIL -to EMAIL -subject STR -body STR -file False'
    
sendmail:

    Used as a testing sendmail replacement for use in programs
    like mutt as an MTA.  It reads the email to send on the stdin
    and then delivers it based on the port and host settings.

    lamson sendmail -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 0 -- [recipients]
    
queue:

    Let's you do most of the operations available to a queue.

    lamson queue (-pop | -get | -remove | -count | -clear | -keys) -name run/queue
    
restart:

    Simply attempts a stop and then a start command.  All options for both
    apply to restart.  See stop and start for options available.
    
status:

    Prints out status information about lamson useful for finding out if it's
    running and where.

    lamson status -pid ./run/smtp.pid
    
log:

    Runs a logging only server on the given hosts and port.  It logs
    each message it receives and also stores it to the run/queue 
    so that you can make sure it was received in testing.

    lamson log -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 1 \
            -pid ./run/log.pid -chroot False  \
            -cd "." -umask False -uid False -gid False
    
gen:

    Generates various useful things for you to get you started.

    lamson gen -project STR
    
stop:

    Stops a running lamson server.  Give -KILL True to have it
    stopped violently.  The PID file is removed after the 
    signal is sent.  Give -ALL the name of a run directory and
    it will stop all pid files it finds there.

    lamson stop -pid ./run/smtp.pid -KILL False -ALL False
    
help:

    Prints out help for the commands. 

    lamson help

    You can get help for one command with:

    lamson help -for STR
    
syncdb:

    Creates the database and other stuff for Lamson.

    lamson syncdb -create True
    
routes:

    Prints out valuable information about an application's routing configuration
    after everything is loaded and ready to go.  Helps debug problems with
    messages not getting to your handlers.  Path has the search paths you want
    separated by a ':' character, and it's added to the sys.path.

    lamson routes -path $PWD -- config.testing

    It defaults to running your config.testing to load the routes. 
    If you want it to run the config.boot then give that instead:

    lamson routes -- config.boot