Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. Configuration

2.1 Setting Configuration Variables
2.2 Setting Configuration Variables
2.3 Link Control Configuration Variables
2.4 Configuring Infostructures

3. Advanced Configuration

3.1 Advanced Infostructure Configuration
3.2 Authorisation Configuration

4. Configuring CGI Programs
5. Extracting Links
6. Testing Links
7. Reporting Problems

7.1 Email Reporting of Newly Broken Links

8. Examining Individual Files
9. Repairing Links
10. Making Suggestions
11. CGI Interface
12. The Emacs Interface

12.1 Finding Files with Broken Links
12.2 Finding Broken Links in Files Within Emacs

13. Setting up LinkController
14. Administration

14.1 Default Installation
14.2 User Administration
14.3 Cron Scripts

15. Robots and Sensible Behaviour
16. Link Database Maintenance

16.1 Link Ageing

17. Bugs and bug reporting
18. History
19. Acknowledgements

Esoterica Internet Portugal
IPPT PAN Poland
The Tardis Project
Other Free Software Authors

A. Invoking the LinkController Programs
B. Packages Which Can Be Useful with LinkController

B.1 The CDB utilities
B.2 The Tie-Transact-Hash Perl Module and Programmes

C. Terms

C.1 Resource
C.2 URLs
C.3 Infostructure
C.4 Link

Program and Variable Name Index
Concept Index