IRCD-RATBOX(8) System Administration Commands IRCD-RATBOX(8)NAME
ircd-ratbox - Advanced, stable and fast ircd
SYNOPSIS
ircd-ratbox [-help | -version]
ircd-ratbox [-basedir BASEDIR] [-configfile CONFFILE] [-logfile LOGFILE] [-pidfile PIDFILE] [-foreground] [-conftest]
DESCRIPTION
ircd-ratbox is the main ircd daemon responsible for running the IRC server. It delegates specific tasks to several other daemons: resolver,
ssld, bandb.
OPTIONS -help
Show summary of options.
-version
Display version information.
-basedir BASEDIR
Before starting the server, enter BASEDIR directory (chdir).
-configfile CONFFILE
Set configuration file (defaults to /etc/ircd-ratbox/ircd.conf).
-logfile LOGFILE
Set main log path (defaults to /var/log/ircd-ratbox/ircd.log).
-pidfile PIDFILE
Set file used to store main daemon PID (defaults to /etc/ircd-ratbox/ircd.pid).
-foreground
Don't detach process in the background.
-conftest
Check configuration and exit.
AUTHOR
Marc `Duck` Dequenes <Duck@DuckCorp.org>
Original author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Marc Dequenes (Duck)
This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
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dancer-ircd(8) System Manager's Manual dancer-ircd(8)NAME
dancer-ircd - an IRC server
SYNOPSIS
ircd [-d filename] [-f filename] [-h hostname] [-k filename] [-l filename] [-n] [-v] [-x debuglevel]
DESCRIPTION
dancer-ircd is the IRC server used by FreeNode Network (amongst others), built in an effort to overcome the anachronisms, limitations, and
hysterical raisins of traditional IRC servers.
OPTIONS -d filename
Where to find the D:line config file.
-f filename
Where to find the main config file.
-h hostname
Specify the server name this ircd will be. This should usually match it's primary hostname.
-k filename
Where to find the K:line config file.
-l filename
Where to write the logfile.
-n Do not fork, run in the foreground.
-v Print version and exit.
-x debuglevel
Sets the debug level. Higher is more data. Only effective if the ircd was compiled for debugging.
COPYRIGHT
(c) 1988,1989 University of Oulu, Computing Center, Finland,
(c) 1988,1989 Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland
(c) 1988,1989,1990,1991 Jarkko Oikarinen
(c) 1999-2003 Andrew Suffield
Various other people have written or contributed to this ircd, see connect to it and use "/info" in your IRC client for a fuller list.
See /usr/share/doc/dancer-ircd/copyright
FILES
/etc/dancer-ircd/ircd.conf
/etc/dancer-ircd/olines
/etc/dancer-ircd/motd
/etc/dancer-ircd/omotd
/etc/dancer-ircd/ohelp
/var/lib/dancer-ircd/dline.conf
/var/lib/dancer-ircd/kline.conf
SEE ALSO
There is more detailed documentation on some of the features of dancer-ircd to be found in /usr/share/doc/dancer-ircd, contained within the
dancer-ircd-doc package.
AUTHOR
Jarkko Oikarinen, currently jto@tolsun.oulu.fi, manual page written by Jeff Trim, jtrim@orion.cair.du.edu, later modified by
jto@tolsun.oulu.fi.
Rewritten 2001 by Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
7 August 2001 dancer-ircd(8)