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  4. .TH ngircd 8 "Jul 2011" ngircd "ngIRCd Manual"
  5. .SH NAME
  6. ngIRCd \- the next generation IRC daemon
  7. .SH SYNOPSIS
  8. .B ngircd [
  9. .I Options
  10. .B ]
  11. .SH DESCRIPTION
  12. .BR ngIRCd
  13. is a free open source daemon for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC),
  14. developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
  15. .PP
  16. It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like
  17. many others. It is easy to configure, supports server links (even with
  18. original ircd's) and runs on hosts with changing IP addresses (such as
  19. dial-in networks).
  20. .PP
  21. Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
  22. Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
  23. .PP
  24. As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
  25. there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
  26. systems as well. By default, ngIRCd writes diagnostic and informational messages using
  27. the syslog mechanism.
  28. .SH OPTIONS
  29. The default behavior of
  30. .BR ngircd
  31. is to read its standard configuration file (see below), to detach from the
  32. controlling terminal and to wait for clients.
  33. .PP
  34. You can use these options to modify this default:
  35. .TP
  36. \fB\-f\fR \fIfile\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR \fIfile\fR
  37. Use
  38. .I file
  39. as configuration file.
  40. .TP
  41. \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nodaemon\fR
  42. Don't fork a child and don't detach from controlling terminal.
  43. All log messages go to the console and you can use CTRL-C to
  44. terminate the server.
  45. .TP
  46. \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-passive\fR
  47. Disable automatic connections to other servers. You can use the IRC command
  48. CONNECT later on as IRC Operator to link this ngIRCd to other servers.
  49. .TP
  50. \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-configtest\fR
  51. Read, validate and display the configuration; then exit.
  52. .TP
  53. \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
  54. Output version information and exit.
  55. .TP
  56. \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
  57. Display a brief help text and exit.
  58. .SH FILES
  59. .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.conf
  60. .RS
  61. The system wide default configuration file.
  62. .RE
  63. .I :ETCDIR:/ngircd.motd
  64. .RS
  65. Default "message of the day" (MOTD).
  66. .RE
  67. .SH SIGNALS
  68. The daemon understands the following signals:
  69. .TP
  70. \fBTERM\fR
  71. Shut down all connections and terminate the daemon.
  72. .TP
  73. \fBHUP\fR
  74. Shut down all listening sockets, re-read the configuration file and
  75. re-initialize the daemon.
  76. .SH HINTS
  77. It's wise to use "ngircd \-\-configtest" to validate the configuration file
  78. after changing it.
  79. .SH DEBUGGING
  80. When ngIRCd is compiled with debug code, that is, its source code has
  81. been ./configure'd with "--enable-debug" and/or "--enable-sniffer" (witch
  82. enables debug mode automatically as well), you can use two more command
  83. line options and two more signals to debug problems with the daemon itself
  84. or IRC clients:
  85. .PP
  86. \fBOptions:\fR
  87. .TP
  88. \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR
  89. Enable debug mode and log extra messages.
  90. .TP
  91. \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-sniffer\fR
  92. Enable IRC protocol sniffer, which logs all sent and received IRC commands to
  93. the console/syslog. This option requires that ngIRCd has been ./configure'd
  94. with "--enable-sniffer" and enables debug mode automatically, too.
  95. .PP
  96. \fBSignals:\fR
  97. .TP
  98. \fBUSR1\fR
  99. Toggle debug mode on and off during runtime.
  100. .TP
  101. \fBUSR2\fR
  102. Dump internal server state to the console/syslog when debug mode is on (use
  103. command line option \-\-debug or signal USR1).
  104. .SH AUTHORS
  105. Alexander Barton, <alex@barton.de>
  106. .br
  107. Florian Westphal, <fw@strlen.de>
  108. .PP
  109. Homepage: http://ngircd.barton.de/
  110. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  111. .BR ngircd.conf (5),
  112. .BR ircd (8)
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