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1 .\" @(#)ircd.8 7b10 25 Oct 2001
2 .\" $Id$
3 .TH IRCD 8 "14 May 2003" "ircd-hybrid-7"
4 .SH NAME
5 ircd \- The IRCD-Hybrid Internet Relay Chat server
6 .SH SYNOPSIS
7 .hy 0
8 .IP \fBircd\fP
9 [-configfile filename] [-dlinefile filename] [-klinefile filename]
10 [-xlinefile filename] [-logfile filename] [-pidfile filename] [-foreground]
11 [-version]
12 .SH DESCRIPTION
13 .LP
14 \fIircd\fP is the server (daemon) program for the Internet Relay Chat
15 Program. The \fIircd\fP is a server in that its function is to "serve"
16 the client program \fIirc(1)\fP and other compatible programs with
17 messages and commands. All commands and user messages are passed
18 directly to the \fIircd\fP for processing and relaying to other IRC
19 servers.
20
21 This is \fIircd-hybrid\fP, the highly modified (and hopefully improved)
22 variant of the original ircd program by Jarkko Oikarinen.
23 .SH OPTIONS
24 .TP
25 .B \-configfile filename
26 Specifies the ircd.conf file to be used for this \fIircd\fP. The option
27 is used to override the default ircd.conf given at compile time. By default,
28 this is "etc/ircd.conf" within the prefix you installed the \fIircd\fP in.
29 .TP
30 .B \-dlinefile filename
31 .TP
32 .B \-klinefile filename
33 .TP
34 .B \-xlinefile filename
35 Specifies the files to be used for D-lines (host bans), K-lines (hostmask bans),
36 and X-lines (gecos bans), which by default are within the etc/ directory of your
37 installation prefix as dline.conf, kline.conf, and xline.conf.
38 .TP
39 .B \-logfile filename
40 Specifies an alternative logfile to be used than that specified in defaults.h
41 .TP
42 .B \-pidfile filename
43 Specifies the file used by the \fIircd\fP to store its process ID. The option is
44 used to override the default ircd.pid given at compile time.
45 .TP
46 .B \-foreground
47 Makes \fIircd\fP run in the foreground
48 .TP
49 .B \-version
50 Makes \fIircd\fP print its version, and exit.
51 .SH USAGE
52 If you plan to connect your \fIircd\fP server to an existing IRC network,
53 you will need to alter your local IRC configuration file (typically named
54 "ircd.conf") so that it will accept and make connections to other \fIIRC\fP
55 servers. This file contains the hostnames, IP addresses, and sometimes
56 passwords for connections to other ircds around the world.
57
58 The example ircd.conf in the etc/ directory documents itself. Read it
59 carefully or you may expose a risk on your network simply by having your
60 ircd running!
61 .LP
62 .SH BOOTING THE SERVER
63 It is sufficient to type \fBircd\fP at the command line to start
64 ircd-hybrid into the background. If you wish to run ircd in the
65 foreground (perhaps for debugging purposes), use the \fB-foreground\fP
66 parameter.
67
68 The ircd-hybrid package in your distribution may ship with an rc-script
69 which handles this for you. In Debian, it is \fB/etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid.\fP
70
71 .SH EXAMPLE
72 # ircd -configfile /usr/share/ircd/ircd.conf -logfile /var/log/ircd.log
73
74 Starts \fBircd\fP with the config file /usr/share/ircd/ircd.conf and
75 with a log file /var/log/ircd.log. It implicitly forks back to the
76 console -- to prevent this use -foreground.
77
78 Many of the above paths are hardcoded at compile time in the
79 \fBinclude/defaults.h\fP file, so it may be convenient to edit these to
80 suit your needs before you compile the ircd.
81 .SH COPYRIGHT
82 (c) 1988,1989 University of Oulu, Computing Center, Finland,
83 .LP
84 (c) 1988,1989 Department of Information Processing Science,
85 University of Oulu, Finland
86 .LP
87 (c) 1988-1991 Jarkko Oikarinen
88 .LP
89 (c) 1997-2003 The IRCD-Hybrid project.
90 .LP
91 For full COPYRIGHT see the LICENSE file within the IRC source package.
92 .LP
93 .RE
94 .SH BUGS
95 If you find a bug and you have a core file from ircd as a result, use a
96 debugger like \fBgdb(1)\fP to process the core file and send a backtrace
97 to \fBbugs@ircd-hybrid.org\fP.
98
99 .SH AUTHORS
100 irc2.8 and earlier: Jarkko Oikarinen, currently jto@tolsun.oulu.fi. See
101 doc/old/Authors for more credits.
102 .LP
103 ircd-hybrid-7: the IRCD-Hybrid Project, bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
104 .LP
105 Manual page written by Jeff Trim, jtrim@orion.cair.du.edu,
106 later modified by jto@tolsun.oulu.fi.
107 .LP
108 Updated by W. Campbell, wcampbel@botbay.net, Edward Brocklesby,
109 ejb@klamath.uucp.leguin.org.uk, and highly revised by Joshua Kwan
110 (joshk@triplehelix.org) for the Debian distribution.

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