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- .TH ngircd 8 "Dec 2010" ngircd "ngIRCd Manual"
- .SH NAME
- ngIRCd \- the next generation IRC daemon
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B ngircd [
- .I Options
- .B ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .BR ngIRCd
- is a free open source daemon for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC),
- developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- .PP
- It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like
- many others. It is easy to configure, supports server links (even with
- original ircd's) and runs on hosts with changing IP addresses (such as
- dial-in networks).
- .PP
- Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
- Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
- .PP
- As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
- there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
- systems as well. By default, ngIRCd writes diagnostic and informational messages using
- the syslog mechanism.
- .SH OPTIONS
- The default behaviour of
- .BR ngircd
- is to read its standard configuration file (see below), to detach from the
- controlling terminal and to wait for clients.
- .PP
- You can use these options to modify this default:
- .TP
- \fB\-f\fR \fIfile\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR \fIfile\fR
- Use
- .I file
- as configuration file.
- .TP
- \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nodaemon\fR
- Don't fork a child and don't detach from controlling terminal.
- All log messages go to the console and you can use CTRL-C to
- terminate the server.
- .TP
- \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-passive\fR
- Disable automatic connections to other servers. You can use the IRC command
- CONNECT later on as IRC Operator to link this ngIRCd to other servers.
- .TP
- \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-configtest\fR
- Read, validate and display the configuration; then exit.
- .TP
- \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
- Output version information and exit.
- .TP
- \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
- Display a brief help text and exit.
- .SH FILES
- .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.conf
- .RS
- The system wide default configuration file.
- .RE
- .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.motd
- .RS
- Default "message of the day" (MOTD).
- .RE
- .SH SIGNALS
- The daemon understands the following signals:
- .TP
- \fBTERM\fR
- Shut down all conections and terminate the daemon.
- .TP
- \fBHUP\fR
- Shut down all listening sockets, re-read the configuration file and
- re-initialize the daemon.
- .SH HINTS
- It's wise to use "ngircd \-\-configtest" to validate the configuration file
- after changing it.
- .SH AUTHORS
- Alexander Barton, <alex@barton.de>
- .br
- Florian Westphal, <fw@strlen.de>
- .PP
- Homepage: http://ngircd.barton.de/
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR ngircd.conf (5),
- .BR ircd (8)
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