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)