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Do some cleanup.


B<Returns:> always true


B<Example:>

$arc->Quit();


=item tonne (  ) 

B<Description>: See source code for this method. /dev/null for unwanted output.


=back 

=over 2

=item clean (  ) I<inherited from Arc::Connection>

=item IsConnected (  ) I<inherited from Arc::Connection>

B<Description>: are we connected?


B<Returns:> true, if the ARCv2 control connection is connected, otherwise false


B<Example:>

last unless $arc->IsConnected;


=back 

=over 2

=item DESTROY (  ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: Destructor


=item IsError (  ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: User function to get the error msg.


B<Returns:> the error message if any otherwise undef


B<Example:>

unless (my $err = $arc->IsError()) { .. } else { print STDERR $err; }


=item Log ( $facility, ... (message) ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: Log function.
Logs messages to 'logdestination' if 'loglevel' is is set appropriatly.
loglevel behaviour has changed in the 1.0 release of ARCv2, the "Arc"-class can export
LOG_AUTH (authentication information), LOG_USER (connection information), LOG_ERR (errors), 
LOG_CMD (ARCv2 addition internal command information), LOG_SIDE (verbose client/server-specific
information), LOG_DEBUG (verbose debug information). It possible to combine the 
levels with or (resp. +) to allow a message to appear when not all loglevels are 
requested by the user.
Commonly used for logging errors from application level.


B<Returns:> always false


B<Example:>

return $arc->Log(LOG_ERR,"Message");


=item new ( %hash, key => val, ... ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: Constructor. 
Initializes the object and returns it blessed.
For all sub classes, please override C<_Init> to check the 
parameter which are passed to the C<new> function. This
is necessary because you are not able to call the the new method of a
parent class, when having a class name (new $class::SUPER::new, does not work.).


B<Returns:> blessed object of the class


B<Example:>

my $this = new Arc::Class ( key => value, key2 => value2 );


=back 

=over 2

=back 

=head3 PROTECTED METHODS

=over 2

=item _Auth (  ) 

B<Description>: send the available SASL mechanisms.
Protocol command: AUTH <comma-seperated list of SASL mechansims>\r\n


B<Returns:> true when succesful, otherwise false


B<Example:>

$this->_Auth();


=item _Authtype (  ) 

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B<Returns:> true if successful, otherwise false


B<Example:>

$this->_Sasl($sasl->client_start());


=item _SendCommand ( $cmd, $parameter ) I<inherited from Arc::Connection>

B<Description>: send a command. (protocol)  
Send a command to the ARCv2 socket.


B<Returns:> true if successful, otherwise false


B<Example:>

$this->_SendCommand("CMDPASV",$consock->sockhost.':'.$consock->sockport);


=item _SendLine ( ... (line) ) I<inherited from Arc::Connection>

B<Description>: send a line. (protocol)
This function sends a command line to the ARCv2 socket.


B<Returns:> true if writing has succeeded, otherwise false.


B<Example:>

$this->_SendLine($cmd,"test"); 


=back 

=over 2

=item _Debug ( ... (message) ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: Debug function.
Logs messages with "DEBUG" 


B<Returns:> always false


B<Example:>

$this->_Debug("hello","world"); # message will be "hello world"


=item _SetError ( ... (message)  ) I<inherited from Arc>

B<Description>: SetError function.
This function prepends the error message (@_) to an existing error message (if any) and
logs the message with LOG_ERR facility.
Use this function for setting an error from class level. Users should use IsError 
to get the message if a function failed.


B<Returns:> always false


B<Example:>

return $this->_SetError("User is not allowed to do this."); # breaks when an error occured


=back 

=over 2

=back 

=head3 PRIVATE METHODS

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Arc>, L<Arc::Command>, L<Arc::Connection>, 
L<Arc::Connection::Server>, L<Arc::Connection::Client>,
L<arcx>, L<arcxd>, L<Authen::SASL>, L<Authen::SASL::Cyrus>
L<Net::Server::PreFork>

=head1 AUTHOR

 Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003-5 Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de> and others.
All rights reserved.
Zeuthen, Germany, (old) Europe

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 Special thanks go to:
DESY Zeuthen, in particular:

- Wolfgang Friebel for bleeding edge testing and heavy bug reporting (and the idea of reimplementing ARC).

- Waltraut Niepraschk and Andreas Haupt for their help and support during the development. 

=cut