Starting Snoopy

To start Snoopy goto the command line and enter:

$ snoopy <options>

Where options are summarised here:

-h, --help show help message and exit
--local-server, -l
 

turn on local file server

DEFAULT: local-server not switched on

--port PORT, -p PORT
 

set the local HTTP server port number

DEFAULT: 4444, or next available port

--ssh SSH, -s SSH
 

user@hostname for SSH connection to sequence files on remote host

DEFAULT: SSH-Bridge not switched on

See the section Loading Data for more information about these options.

Examples

Start local server

$ snoopy -l

Start local server at port 8888

$ snoopy -l -p 8888

Start SSH-Bridge with username bob at big-bio-server

$ snoopy -s bob@big-bio-server