NAME
pioneers-meta-server - meta game server for Pioneers
SYNOPSIS
pioneers-meta-server [options]
DESCRIPTION
Pioneers is an implementation of the popular, award-winning "Settlers
of Catan" board game. It uses a client/server model for networked
play. This program provides a piece of network infrastructure that
helps match pioneers clients to pioneers servers. Casual players of
pioneers probably do not need to run this program.
OPTIONS
-?, --help
Print a short help text and exit.
-d, --daemon
Run in daemon mode.
-P, --pidfile pidfile
Write the pid to pidfile (implies -d)
-r, --redirect location
Redirect to another meta-server running at location.
-s, --servername hostname
Use hostname as hostname when creating servers.
-p, --port-range from-to
Use ports in the range from-to (inclusive) to start servers. It
is advised not to include port 5557 in the range. (See BUGS
below.) When this range is not specified, the meta-server will
not be able to create new games.
--debug
Enable debug messages.
--syslog-debug
Duplicate the messages of the syslog to the console.
--version
Show version information.
ENVIRONMENT
The default settings of the meta-server can be influenced with the
following three environment variables:
PIONEERS_META_SERVER
The hostname the meta-server will use when creating new games.
This should be a hostname that can be resolved by all clients
that will connect.
PIONEERS_SERVER_CONSOLE
The path to pioneers-server-console. If it is not set, the
default installation path will be used.
PIONEERS_DIR
The path to the game definition files. If it is not set, the
default installation path will be used.
FILES
/usr/share/games/pioneers/*.game
Game definitions
BUGS
Do not include port 5557 in the --port-range argument because the meta-
server uses this port.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>, and
updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@bigfoot.com> and Bas Wijnen
<shevek@fmf.nl>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>,
Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net>,
with contributions from many other developers on the Internet; see the
AUTHORS file in the pioneers distribution or the help->about dialog in
one of the graphical programs for a complete list of contributing
authors.
SEE ALSO
pioneers(6), pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6)