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These tools provide access to some of the newer features in WACS, notably the blogging feature and the content caching features. At present they have no web-based equivalents although this will probably change in a future version of WACS.
Since WACS 0.9.0, there has been a very simplistic blogging system built into WACS. The main use of it so far has been for the updatestats tool to post an article detailing the latest updates but highlighted in a model-centric rather than set-centric way. This behaviour is optional and is configured through the standard wacs configuration file. It is also possible to use the blogging system for other content of a more editorial nature.
It is this more editorial material and getting it into the WACS blogging
system that the wacsblogctl application is primarily
concerned with. You are expected to prepare the material within a normal
HTML editor of your choice and then save the resulting article. It is this
file that wacsblogctl processes and turns into a new
blog article. The wacsblogctl supports modes of
--load, --dump, --purge and --help.
When you are composing a blog entry, the first line of your simplistic
HTML page will become the title up to the first paragraph break mark, ie
<p>. All the subsequent text will be the body
of the blog entry. You can use all normal HTML directives including tables,
font settings, etc and you can include links to wacs apps and icons. You
can either give the full URL with any <img src= or
<a href= tags you wish to add e.g.
http://myserver.example.com/cgi-bin/wacs/wacsimg/mini343.jpg
or you can specify it with the standard wacs configuration and menu file
notation of #WACSIMG#/mini343.jpg.
For more information on how to use this, please see the section called “The wacsblogctl Command”.
wacsvidcomd which is discussed in some detail in the the section called “Content Caching Mechanisms” section of the chapter on Chapter 13, When Using Wacs For Hosting provides a database driven simplistic video editor/encoder that creates edited compilation videos from segmented video clips appropriately marked up within the Wacs database.
The wacscachectl takes a mode and set number as an
argument and prepares cached content for that set within the WACS content
caching mechanism introduced in WACS 0.9.1. At present only
--create is accepted as a mode, and a set number as the argument.
For video files, the cooked compilation file if needed
is expected to have already been created using wacsvidcomb.
Please see the section on content caching in Chapter 13, When Using Wacs For Hosting for more
information